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Season 22 |
| 436 :22x01 - Truth, War, and Consequences (Oct/09/2003) | | Correspondent Martin Smith explores how the “mess” in Iraq six months after Saddam's fall came to be. Smith interviews State and Defense Department officials---who aren't on the same page. One example of this “interagency warfare”: Gen. Jay Garner, the first Pentagon administrator in Iraq, tells Smith that he had been told to “ignore” a postwar plan developed by State. And when Garner arrived in Iraq---days after the troops---the country's infrastructure was already in tatters. | | | |
| 437 :22x02 - Chasing the Sleeper Cell (Oct/16/2003) | | Correspondent Lowell Bergman (working with The New York Times) examines the case of six Buffalo Yemeni-Americans who pleaded guilty to aiding Al Qaeda. It was the first major terrorism case completed after the passage of the USA Patriot Act and the creation of the Homeland Security Department, and Bergman explores how---and how effectively---these “new tools” were used. Bergman also reviews the case itself. “What did they do,” he asks, “that was really illegal?” | | | |
| 438 :22x03 - The Alternative Fix (Nov/06/2003) | | “The advancing edge of health care” or “pseudo science”? Alternative medicine can be either, depending on the therapy and who's talking about it, and both sides make compelling cases in this overview of the subject. But no one disagrees with former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell when she calls it “big business.” And this report doesn't pretend to be the final word. “We don't know everything about illness and health,” Harvard medical historian Ted Kaptchuk says simply. | | | |
| 439 :22x04 - Dangerous Prescription (Nov/13/2003) | | “Dangerous Prescription” explores side effects from what producer Andy Liebman calls “major inadequacies” in the FDA's oversight of drugs before and after they appear on the market. The hour uses diet drugs, cholesterol-lowering drugs and a medication for rheumatoid arthritis as case studies. It follows the FDA's approval process and finds, says Liebman, that “many fewer people than most of would imagine” are tested before approval is granted. And drugs that are approved are monitored in “a voluntary system that's very haphazard.” Overall, Liebman concludes: “Our watchdog agency isn't doing much watching,” and what watching it does “is going to waste.” | | | | | | |
| 441 :22x06 - From China With Love (Jan/15/2004) | | An atmospheric report on the 20-year love affair between an FBI agent and one of his “assets,” a Chinese-born woman who's accused of being a Chinese double agent. The principals: Katrina Leung (code name: Parlor Maid) and agent J.J. Smith, who were arrested in April 2003. Leung was charged with copying classified documents; Smith with “gross negligence” (letting her do it). Producer-director Michael Kirk tells this “story of secrets, risk, patriotism and, perhaps, love” largely through interviews with former FBI agents, one of whom (also named Smith) fears that “very grave damage could have been done.” | | | |
| 442 :22x07 - Chasing Saddam's Weapons (Jan/22/2004) | | BBC reporter Jane Corbin follows U.S. inspectors as they search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction following the fall of Saddam Hussein. “It has been very frustrating for them,” says Corbin, who interviews chief inspector David Kay throughout the hour. Corbin also interviews intelligence analysts, the wife of an Iraqi nuclear physicist and former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix as she investigates whether Saddam had plans to produce such weapons (there are “tantalizing clues” that he did, she says). And Corbin speculates on Saddam's strategy. “Why did he want us to think they [weapons] were there?” she asks. “Because in so doing, he effectively brought down his own regime.” | | | |
| 443 :22x08 - Beyond Baghdad (Feb/12/2004) | | An overview of the situation in Iraq by correspondent Martin Smith, who travels “Beyond Baghdad” and focuses on Kurdistan, the Sunni heartlands, and the Shia strongholds Karbala and Najaf. Smith interviews Iraqi clerics, tribal leaders and politicians, as well as Americans, and finds “a number of fault lines, either ethnic or sectarian,” that pose a longer-term threat than does resistance to U.S. forces. He concludes that “things are going to get better---but it's going to be a long, hard slog.” Smith also surveyed the situation in Iraq in an October 2003 “Frontline” report titled “Truth, War and Consequences.” | | | |
| 444 :22x09 - Tax Me if You Can (Feb/19/2004) | | Correspondent Hedrick Smith explores what banks and accounting firms are doing with tax shelters, focusing on what he calls “sham shelters” with “a veneer of legality.” They “twist the law,” Smith says, “and play on it in ways that were never intended.” One example he follows: a U.S. bank's leasing (then leasing right back) of a German city's sewer system. “Money never moves,” Smith says. “It's all on paper.” The bank saved millions in taxes and the IRS, Smith says, “is behind the eight ball.” | | | |
| 445 :22x10 - The Invasion of Iraq (Feb/26/2004) | | Recounting the invasion of Iraq---and how, says “Frontline” executive producer Michael Sullivan, it “laid the seeds” for “the very messy peace” that followed. The report examines the battle over troop levels in the Pentagon prior to the war, and how the decision to go with fewer troops---combined with shortcomings in U.S. intelligence---affected the outcome. The U.S. “had enough troops to win the war,” says Sullivan, “but not enough to win the peace.” | | | |
| 446 :22x11 - Ghosts of Rwanda (Apr/01/2004) | | “Ghosts of Rwanda” recalls the April 1994 genocide in the African nation, in which Hutus killed some 800,000 Tutsis. It was, says producer Greg Barker, the Hutu government's “own version of the final solution.” In interviews with eyewitnesses and officials, Barker examines the complex causes of the tragedy. And he looks at it as a “moral test” for those who wanted to stop it. “What do you do in a crisis?” he asks. “You hope you'd do the right thing, but there's no guarantee.” | | | |
| 447 :22x12 - Diet Wars (Apr/08/2004) | | In “Diet Wars,” “Frontline” producer Steve Talbot goes “shopping” for a diet, visiting Weight Watchers and checking out various low-fat and low-carb regimens. Talbot, a baby boomer who was an actor as a child (he played Gilbert on “Leave It to Beaver”), also explores the business of dieting and comes to a “common sense” conclusion that isn't easy to market. “There are good carbs to eat and good fats to eat,” he says. “You should eat moderate portions, and you should exercise.” | | | |
| 448 :22x13 - Son of Al Qaeda (Apr/22/2004) | | “Son of Al Qaeda” profiles Abdurahman Khadr, the rebellious 21-year-old son of a Qaeda leader who grew up with Osama bin Laden's children---then spied for the CIA after having been arrested in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks. Now in Canada---and estranged from both sides---Khadr tells his story to CBC journalist Terence McKenna. It took him from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, then to Bosnia, where the CIA wanted him to infiltrate terrorist cells, McKenna says. Khadr turned on the CIA, just as he had his father---and Qaeda. Sums up McKenna, “Being a wild teenager is what saved him.” | | | |
| 449 :22x14 - The Jesus Factor (Apr/29/2004) | | “The Jesus Factor” examines the connection between President Bush's evangelical Christianity and his policies and political strategies. They blend seamlessly. Says Doug Wead, an evangelical who advised George H.W. Bush: “There's no question that the president's faith is calculated. And there's no question that the president's faith is real.” Among the other interviewees are Richard Land of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention and Jim Wallis, editor of the liberal evangelical magazine Sojourners. Wallis is uneasy with Bush's “language of righteous empire,” while Land isn't. “The problem with the left is that some of them don't think God has a side,” he says. “George Bush and most of [his] supporters believe God has a side. And we believe that side is freedom.” | | | |
| 450 :22x15 - The Way the Music Died (May/27/2004) | | “The Way the Music Died” follows Velvet Revolver, a new “super group” composed of former members of Guns & Roses and the Stone Temple Pilots, and singer-songwriter Sarah Hudson (the daughter of Mark Hudson, one of the “zany” Hudson Brothers, who had short-lived success in the 1970s). The decline in the recording industry in recent years is also explored. Among the reasons for the decline are the impact of MTV and illegal downloading of songs, but the primary culprit cited is music-industry and radio-station consolidation, which has led to an overriding emphasis on short-term profits. “It's a classic example of art and commerce colliding and nobody wins,” says Los Angeles disc jockey Nic Harcourt. | | | |
| 451 :22x16 - The Plea (Jun/17/2004) | | In “The Plea,” filmmaker Ofra Bikel (“Burden of Innocence”) explores cases in which it is her contention that the plea-bargaining system infringed on the constitutional rights of defendants. The cases include a Texas single mother caught in a drug bust; a man accused of killing someone outside a Brooklyn bowling alley; a North Carolina woman accused of taking part in a Utica, N.Y., gas-station robbery-murder in 1973; and a Texas man convicted of a 1977 rape and murder. | | | |
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