All of this happened before....

... Will it happen again?

More than twenty years ago, Bill Moyers broadcast this truly amazing, thoughtful and angry critique of the Iran-Contra Affair, and the policy of official government secrecy that was instrumental in allowing that treason to occur.

It is as salient today as it was in 1987.

A theme that ran through the re-imagined TV series Battlestar Galactica was the phrase, "All of this has happened before. And all of will happen again." Indeed, when you see the same activities of the government, the same beliefs in untrammeled executive power, the inability of Congress to participate in controlling the course of our national destiny, you have to wonder if we are seeing is all happen again.

Today, our Congress has even less courage to try to find out what happened, despite knowing what we already know of the secret, unconstitutional and illegal covert activities undertaken by the Bush-Cheney Administration.

Take some time to watch this whole (90 minutes!!!) presentation. And consider. If we are ever able to right our ship of state, how will we prevent traitors to our Constitution like Ollie North from making it happen again?

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by Bill Moyers

(h/t The Exiled)