Top Secret America | FRONTLINE. September 6, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest traces the journey from 9/11 to the Marathon bombings and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism. Big Brother Is Watching You Drive July 17, 2013, 3:46 pm ET · by Sarah Childress Law enforcement agencies nationwide increasingly rely on automatic license-plate readers to track and store information on American drivers, a new report found, in the latest revelation on how the government gathers data on its citizens.
Is “Top Secret America” Making Us Safer? April 30, 2013, 9:50 pm ET · by Nathan Tobey Join us for a live chat about “Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings” with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, FRONTLINE producer Mike Wiser and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. The Boston Bombers: Who Knew What When April 30, 2013, 9:40 pm ET · by Sarah Childress The FBI and the CIA had been tipped off about one of the bombers two years ago. The Magazine that “Inspired” the Boston Bombers. Inside the CIA’s “Kill List” | Top Secret America | FRONTLINE. An excerpt from Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Reprinted with permission from Little, Brown and Company Targeted killings — critics call them assassinations — have been conducted by the U.S. government for a decade, and drones have played a large part in the continuation and frequency of such activities.
Armed Predators and Reapers have become the weapons of choice for killing individual terrorist leaders in foreign lands. The success of weapon-carrying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) created a demand within every branch of the military and the CIA for as many of them as their corporate inventor, California-based General Atomics, could produce. The number of drones in the U.S. arsenal has increased from sixty to more than six thousand since 9/11.
In the drone war, U.S. national security agencies have maintained at least three separate “kill lists” of individuals, several sources explained. WikiSecrets - Video | FRONTLINE. It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over. Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- {*style:<a href=' his father{*style:</a>*}, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information.
Let's forget 9/11. Let's bag it. I'm talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the dead, the tolling of bells, the honouring of first responders, the gathering of presidents, the dedication of the new memorial, the moments of silence. The works. Let's just can it all. Shut down Ground Zero. Ask yourself this: ten years into the post-9/11 era, haven't we had enough of ourselves? The attacks of September 11, 2001 were in every sense abusive, horrific acts. Isn't it finally time to go cold turkey? We would have been better off consigning our memories of 9/11 to oblivion, forgetting it all if only we could. Ceremonies of hubris Within 24 hours of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the first newspaper had already labelled the site in New York as "Ground Zero". The facts of 9/11 are, in this sense, simple enough.
A second irreality went with the first. Only problem: It wasn't. Burying the worst urges in American life. 9/11: When truth became a casualty of war - Listening Post. Fear incorporated - Listening Post. This week on Listening Post: The ongoing narrative of fear in the US media. Plus, publisher Hameed Haroon on Pakistan and the dangers of reporting the country. Last week we looked at the performance of the US news media in decade following the 9/11 attacks. A big part of that story was the role the media played in creating a climate of fear in the US. This week we go a step further and look at the phenomenon of Islamophobia in the media - the people behind it, the organisations paying for it and the news outlets pedalling it.
The Centre for American Progress recently published a study it called 'Fear Incorporated'. It looked at the voices pushing the anti-Islam agenda in the media one sound bite at a time. Then it looked at how those voices were getting on the air and staying there by following the money trail. Pakistan was featured in a US newspaper this week but it had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden's hideout, or the souring bilateral relations. Homefront - Witness. Today, there are more women serving in and returning from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan than have ever before served on a US battle front. Although it has not been specifically mandated, more women have become directly involved in frontline combat over the course of the last decade. This new reality for the US military and the women who serve in it has resulted in a host of issues that are challenging the government organisations that are supposed to serve them as veterans. In the past 10 years, the number of women veterans facing issues related to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - such as substance abuse, depression and joblessness - has more than doubled, while the number who are homeless is estimated to be over 15,000 nationwide.
It has only been within the last few years that the Department of Veterans Affairs (the "VA" is the primary US veterans' health care organisation) has recognised the seriousness of PTSD among women veterans.