Season 25 |
| 480 :25x01 - Return of the Taliban (Oct/03/2006) | | A 25th season starts with a report from tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border on how the area has fallen under the control of the resurgent Taliban, which uses it as a launching pad for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is interviewed. | |
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| 481 :25x02 - The Enemy Within (Oct/10/2006) | | “The Enemy Within” looks at a reported Al Qaeda cell in Lodi, Cal. New York Times reporter Lowell Bergman interviews former FBI agent James Wedick. | |
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| 482 :25x03 - The Lost Year in Iraq (Oct/17/2006) | | “The Lost Year in Iraq” reports on the 2003-04 U.S. efforts, led by presidential envoy L. Paul Bremer III, to establish democracy in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein. Included: comments from Bremer, military personnel and reporters. | |
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| 483 :25x04 - A Hidden Life (Nov/14/2006) | | “A Hidden Life” is an engrossing examination of an Internet sex scandal (and a newspaper's online sting operation) that led to the 2005 recall of Spokane mayor Jim West (1951-2006) after West visited a gay chat room on a city computer. Included: clips of West; comments by Spokesman-Review editor Steve Smith and reporters Bill Morlin and Karen Dorne Steele; and West's ex-wife Ginger Marshall. A federal probe failed to yield criminal charges against West. | |
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| 484 :25x05 - Living Old (Nov/21/2006) | | “Living Old” is an earnest---and often sobering---look at the lives of people 85 and older, “the fastest-growing segment of the [U.S.] population,” notes narrator Will Lyman. The episode addresses the expectation that, over the next 30 years, the total of those over 65 is expected to double and fears that, as geriatrician Jeffrey Farber says, “there's not really anyone trained to care for them.” Also included: comments from seniors; case histories. | |
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| 485 :25x06 - Hand of God (Jan/16/2007) | | “Hand of God,” a documentary by Joe Cultrera about his brother Paul's sexual abuse as a teen by a Catholic priest (who died in 1989) in Salem, Mass. Included: comments from Paul, his parents and sister, and others. Also: Paul's discovery of other victims; the long-term effects of his molestation. | |
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| 486 :25x07 - News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin (Feb/13/2007) | | Part 1 of 3. Lowell Bergman examines challenges facing the news media, including its relationship with the Bush administration; the use of anonymous sources; and the CIA leak case and its consequences. Included: comments from Patrick Buchanan; Mark McKinnon, a former media adviser to President George W. Bush; William Safire; and New York Times reporter James Risen, who helped break the NSA wiretapping story. | |
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| 487 :25x08 - News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin (Feb/20/2007) | | Part 2 of 3. Lowell Bergman examines the news media, including what some see as a disturbing trend: the jailing of journalists who refuse to reveal their sources. Included: comments from the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, who were subpoenaed after reporting on the BALCO investigation, targeting steroids and athletes; ex-Whitewater prosecutor Stephen Bates; the Washington Post's Bob Woodward; blogger Josh Wolf; and former New York Times columnist William Safire. | |
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| 488 :25x09 - News War: What's Happening to the News? (Feb/27/2007) | | Conclusion. Lowell Bergman examines the economic pressures the news industry faces because of aging audiences and the Internet. Included: comments from “Daily Show” head writer David Javerbaum; Ted Koppel; former L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet, who was fired after a dispute about staffing cuts; “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager; Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas; and former L.A. Times editor John Carroll. | |
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| 489 :25x10 - So Much, So Fast (Apr/03/2007) | | The story of Stephen Heywood (who at the age of 29 in 1998 learned that he had Lou Gehrig's disease) and the ALS Therapy Development Foundation, which his brother, Jamie, created in hopes of finding a cure. Included: comments from Heywood (who died in 2006); his wife, Wendy; and his brother, Jamie. | |
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| 490 :25x11 - Hot Politics (Apr/24/2007) | | An examination of the politics behind the federal government's actions on global warming; and the stances of state and local governments on the issue. | |
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| 491 :25x12 - When Kids Get Life (May/08/2007) | | A look at the criminal-justice system's treatment of juveniles convicted of murder, as seen through the eyes of five Colorado inmates serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for their involvement in murders committed before their 18th birthdays. Included: comments from the inmates; Denver defense attorney Norm Mueller; Columbia University law professor Jeffrey A. Fagan; and juvenile-justice advocate Curt Jensen, whose son Erik is among the profiled inmates. | |
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| 492 :25x13 - Spying on the Home Front (May/15/2007) | | Hedrick Smith reports on the government's post-9/11 domestic-surveillance efforts, including the controversial NSA eavesdropping program; and a December 2003 FBI data sweep of Las Vegas vacationers. Included: insights from former AT&T technician Mark Klein; former FBI assistant director Larry A. Mefford; former CIA senior counsel Suzanne Spaulding; and Peter Swire, a Clinton-administration privacy adviser. | |
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| 493 :25x14 - The Tank Man (Jun/05/2007) | | “The Tank Man” searches for the student who stood his ground before a column of tanks during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing; and details how China has revamped its society since, creating a more capitalistic system while continuing to suppress dissent. Included: the brutal conditions faced by many factory workers; how information Yahoo! gave the government in 2004 led to a journalist being imprisoned for 10 years; and the experiences of Hong Kong-based radio talker Han Dongfang. | |
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| 494 :25x15 - Endgame (Jun/19/2007) | | An examination of the reasons for the current situation in Iraq, including failure to plan for an insurgency; the “light footprint” strategy pushed by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; and the 2005 Iraqi election, which the Sunnis boycotted. Included: comments from Gen. Jack Keane (USA Ret.); State Department Counselor Phillip D. Zelikow; and reporters. | |
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