Summary: This edition of Frontline takes viewers inside the iconic Abu Ghraib prison and investigates the path that led to torture techniques being used against Iraqi detainees there as well as prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Through interviews with policy makers, government interrogators, and interrogation subjects, this video examines a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This edition of Frontline examines the consequences of the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism. Reporter Hedrick Smith details how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and considers whether or not it jeopardizes Americans' civil liberties. The program looks at clashing viewpoints on whether Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. national debt. This episode of Frontline reports on how this debt constrains and challenges the Obama administration and on the growing chorus that, without fiscal reform, the U.S. government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that would make the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This edition of Frontline investigates the causes of the 2008 economic meltdown, the worst American financial crisis in 70 years, and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009