Secrets, Politics, and Torture

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🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The secret history of the CIA's controversial "enhanced interrogation" methods. (Original Upload Date: 05/22/2015)

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program Secrets, Politics, and Torture.
0:05.0	Broadcast May 19 on PBS.
0:24.0	Waterboarding, mock execution,
0:26.0	some colded torture.
0:28.0	Slaping, hitting, and then he sees this confinement box.
0:32.0	They've been running a program that empowers the CIA
0:35.0	to take an almost unlimited role in the war on terror.
0:38.0	The CIA said it was essential.
0:40.0	There was a war in 9-11, and there wasn't after-night war.
0:43.0	Our people were convinced that we had to try something, something more aggressive.
0:48.0	The message was, you need to torture people to lead you to your main target.
0:53.0	It's a form of propaganda.
0:55.0	This is what happened when, in fact, the facts don't prove that to be the case.
0:59.0	Frontline investigates one of the CIA's most controversial programs.
1:04.0	We were a war.
1:05.0	Bad things happening was.
1:13.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:19.0	Thank you.
1:20.0	And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:23.0	Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
1:28.0	Committed to building a more just, vertent, and peaceful world.
1:32.0	More information is available at Macfound.org.
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