Tattle | Feds eye Michael Moore for trip to Cuba

Philadelphia Daily News, May, 2007 by Howard Gensler

SUBJECTIVE documentarian Michael Moore has a new movie due this summer.

And the federal government is unwittingly going to help him promote it.

Or is wittingly trying to sabotage it.

Depends on your point of view.

The Associated Press reports that Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba - the U.S. has a trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba - for a segment in "Sicko."

"Sicko" purports to go after the health-care industry the way "Fahrenheit 9/11" went after President Bush .

In March, Moore took about 10 ailing workers from the Ground Zero rescue effort for treatment in Cuba, said a person working on the release of "Sicko."

In a statement yesterday, "Sicko" producer Meghan O'Hara said that the Treasury investigation might be an attempt to undermine ...