Michael Moore Faces U.S. Treasury Probe

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu May 10, 2007 10:18 AM EDT

Article Source: The New York Times

politics, healthcare, 9-11, cuba, michael-moore, treasury-department

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary ''Sicko,'' The Associated Press has learned.

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ejesse

Free advertising the week before Cannes!!! It's fairly astonishing how dense the government can be at times.

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#1 - Thu May 10, 2007 10:20 AM EDT

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Thane Eichenauer

Dense is being gracious. Oblivious or willfully ignorant is more like it. I am sure that the folks at OFAC have a template they used to generate their investigation letter as found on thesmokinggun.

Here is item 3 - "If you claim that your trip to Cuba qualifies under a general license for journalistic activities, please provide the following: Evidence that you are regularly employed as a journalist by a news reporting agency or evidence that you are regularly employed as a supporting broadcast or technical personnel by a news reporting organization."

The bureaucrat whose name in on the letter presumably doesn't live in a cave and likely as not knows who Michael Moore is but papers must be pushed and mortgage payments must be met and so the farce continues. I may not like much of the slant in some of Michael Moore's documentaries but Fahrenheit 9/11 was plenty informative.

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#2 - Thu May 10, 2007 9:16 PM EDT

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	Feds Probe Moore's Film Trip to Cuba	Associated Press	Thu May 10	3
	Treasury Department investigating Michael Moore's trip to Cuba	RealCities.com	Fri May 11	2

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