User:Thepen2/The Last War Crime (film)

The Last War Crime is an epic political fantasy drama, envisioning what would have happened if Dick Cheney had been indicted for ordering torture, which was used to get the false confessions to make a fraudulent case for war against Iraq. Starting with a dramatic recreation of events of the morning of the 9/11 attacks, it tells the story of a heroic Assistant U.S. Attorney, who discovers evidence of war crimes, and a suspenseful race against time to serve the Vice President in public with an arrest warrant before it can be quashed forever.

Budgeted at $50,000, the film is being shot primarily in Los Angeles, CA, with location footage also from Las Vegas, NV. Principal photography is nearly complete and the film is about to enter post production. The film is notable for its extensive use of green screen technology to put the characters on screen into realistic and visually dramatic settings, unusual for such an ultra low budget production.

Plot

The morning of September 11, 2001, as four hijacked commercial airliners bear down on targets in New York City and Washington, DC, the entire U.S. domestic defense infrastructure is caught apparently off guard. And as reports of the successful attacks hit home with various White House principals, they flash back to all the warnings they should have heeded. It is also revealed that many of them, Dick Cheney in particular, had a very definite preexisting agenda to find some pretext for invading Iraq, to take control over its oil resources.

Five years later, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada - Las Vegas, Michael Arrow, while investigating an unrelated government corruption case, accidentally elicits testimony about torture of detainees from the invasion of Afghanistan, who had been held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo in 2002. Arrow further learns that this torture was employed to try to obtain confessions about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction and connections to al Qaeda, to make a case to justify invading Iraq as well. Arrow has the integrity to quietly pursue an inquiry into what actually happened. But ironically, just as Arrow decides to drop the investigation for lack of sufficient evidence, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Angle, an ultra loyal administration supporter, gets wind of this side investigation and engineers Arrow's termination, taking over Arrow's former top position in the district himself.

Through further flash backs the story is traced about how Dick Cheney, acting in concert with his chief legal counsel, David Addington, worked to manipulate the levers of policy to institute a torture program, with dubious legal memos they drafted themselves as exculpation. Neither an inattentive George W. Bush, nor an exasperated George Tenet, are sufficient to resist them. And returning to the film's present time, Cheney has the arrogance to publicly admit that he was a "big supporter" of waterboarding, an unambiguous form of torture.

With that public confession in hand, another Assistant U.S. Attorney, Rachel Silver, who had been working with Arrow, is able after normal business hours to get the grand jury to return an indictment against Dick Cheney, for murder of Nevada residents caused by an illegal war based on false confessions obtained by torture. But because of grand jury secrecy rules, the only way to ensure that the indictment won't be quashed by Angle and buried forever is to actually serve Cheney in person with an arrest warrant, so that it immediately become a news story. What then ensues is a foot race at the end of which Silver succeeds in delivering the warrant at a law enforcement dinner where Cheney has a speaking engagement, just as Angle's operatives arrive to try to intercept her.

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