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Four Corners: Aug 17

Four Corners looks at the ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program in the hunt for Al Qaeda operatives.

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Monday’s Four Corners is a PBS Frontline special on the ghosts of the CIA’s controversial interrogation program in the hunt for Al Qaeda operatives.

When the blockbuster Hollywood film Zero Dark Thirty hit cinemas, it claimed to tell the true story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Behind the scenes, the CIA had secretly worked with the filmmakers, and the movie portrayed the agency’s controversial “enhanced interrogation techniques” as the key to finding and killing bin Laden.

But was it true?

Secrets, Politics and Torture, from the PBS Frontline program, details the fight to uncover the real story of the CIA’s actions in the hunt for Al Qaeda operatives.

For six years the US Senate Intelligence Committee and its investigators combed through six million pages of internal CIA documents.

Secrets, Politics and Torture details how the CIA hired psychologists to develop its enhanced interrogation program. It also shows the fear within the CIA that its embrace of methods commonly viewed as torture would come back to haunt it.

The program documents the extraordinary measures taken by the CIA to stop the release of the Senate committee’s report which found that enhanced interrogation was brutal, mismanaged and did not work.

Monday, August 17 at 8:30pm on ABC.

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