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Live Chat: “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” 10 Years Later
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September 7, 2011
Has the Balance Tipped?
FRONTLINE Managing Editor Philip Bennett reflects on this week's film.
September 7, 2011
Live Chat with "Top Secret America" Reporter Dana Priest and Producer Michael Kirk
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September 6, 2011
John Rizzo: The Lawyer Who Approved CIA's Most Controversial Programs
In this rare interview, John Rizzo, described as "the most influential career lawyer in CIA history" describes his role in many of the "unprecedented" actions the CIA undertook after 9/11, including the "enhanced interrogation program" that critics described as torture and the CIA's secret prison system.
September 6, 2011
Dana Priest: Top Secret America Is "Here to Stay"
It started with an impulse to secrecy and a blank check from Congress says two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Dana Priest. She takes FRONTLINE through Top Secret America's rapid growth to where it now employs a million people at 1,900 private companies and 1,300 federal organizations. "These are gigantic edifices that are going to stay," she says.
September 6, 2011
Fran Townsend: "In a Post-9/11 World We Weren't Going to Be So Prissy"
"We were going to do what we needed to do to get the information we needed to protect the American people," says former homeland security adviser Fran Townsend. But now she questions what kind of return we're getting on the investment we've made in homeland security over the last 10 years.
September 6, 2011
Reporting the Story
How do you investigate a world the government doesn't want you to see? We spoke to Dana Priest back in January about her investigation.
September 6, 2011
JSOC Using Captured Militants to Analyze Intel
Last week the Washington Post published an investigation into the CIA’s operational shift to focus increasingly on "the cold counterterrorism objective of finding targets to capture or kill." We talked to Stephen Grey about the expansion of the CIA’s counterterrorist apparatus and what it means, and discovered a significant development.
September 6, 2011