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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHEADS UP: "Secrets, Politics and Torture," premiering this Tuesday, May 19 on PBS
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FRONTLINE | Secrets, Politics and Torture - Preview | PBS
In Secrets, Politics and Torture, premiering this Tuesday, May 19 on PBS,
Watch the dramatic opening sequence of Secrets, Politics and Torture:
May 15, 2015, 2:45 pm ET by Patrice Taddonio
In Secrets, Politics and Torture, premiering this Tuesday, May 19 on PBS,
Watch Secrets, Politics and Torture Tuesday, May 19 at 10 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings) and online at pbs.org/frontline.
FRONTLINE reveals the many challenges to that narrative, and the inside story of how it came to be.
The documentary unspools the dueling versions of history laid out by the CIA, which maintains that its now officially-shuttered program was effective in combating terrorism, and the massive Senate torture report released in December 2014, which found that the program was brutal, mismanaged and most importantly didnt work.
And thats just the beginning.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with prominent political leaders and CIA insiders, Tuesdays film goes on to examine how the secret interrogation program began, what it accomplished and the bitter fight in Washington over the public outing of its existence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/secrets-politics-and-torture/watch-how-the-cia-helped-make-zero-dark-thirty/
Weve found that, faced with 9/11 and the fear of a second attack, everybody from the head of the CIA, to the Justice Department, to the president asked Can we do it? meaning, can we do it legally not, Should we do it? says veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk.
Secrets, Politics and Tortureis the latest in Kirks acclaimed line of documentaries examining counterterrorism programs and government secrecy in the wake of 9/11: He traveled to the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to make The Torture Question in 2005, and he just won a Peabody Award for United States of Secrets, FRONTLINEs 2014 examination of the National Security Agencys mass surveillance program.
As the debate over how far the U.S. should be willing to go in the fight against terrorism continues, we felt it was important to tell the story of this CIA program, comprehensively, in documentary form, Kirk says. What weve found raises some very tough questions.
Watch Secrets, Politics and Torture Tuesday, May 19 at 10 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings) and online at pbs.org/frontline.
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HEADS UP: "Secrets, Politics and Torture," premiering this Tuesday, May 19 on PBS (Original Post)
KoKo
May 2015
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(32,139 posts)2. K&R
KoKo
(84,711 posts)3. Kick for East Coast...coming up shortly at 10:00 p.m.
It will be up on PBS Website to watch anytime..but if anyone's watching Ken Burns, "Eleanor and Franklyn Roosevelt"
now....they might want to stay tuned for the "Frontline" which follows.