Frontline TV documentary tonight: Secrets, Politics and Torture


I just learned about a Frontline documentary with the above title and the subtitle The secret history of the fight over the CIA’s controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture that is being shown tonight on PBS stations at 10:00pm though your local station might have it at a different time. The description is:

From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush’s War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA’s controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did — and whether it worked.

If you miss it today, these documentaries are repeated and you should be able to see it later and online as well.

Peter Maass of The Intercept discusses this and links it to the blockbuster Seymour Hersh expose of the bin Laden story and the propaganda film Zero Dark Thirty.

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  1. lanir says

    This is currently featured on the marquee on the main pbs.org website but here’s a direct link:

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