"United States of Secrets," Pt. 1 (Frontline PBS)

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United States of Secrets: Part One (full doc)

(FRONTLINE PBS | Official) Premiered Sept. 9, 2021. FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret citizen surveillance program, which began using the September 11, 2001 inside job -- and the lengths the government went to try to keep it hidden from us.

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From the investigative team behind FRONTLINE’s award-winning “Money, Power & Wall Street” comes the definitive history of U.S. domestic surveillance (illegal spying) in a post-9/11 world.

In part one of this two part series, FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk pieces together the secret political history of “The Program,” which began by using Sept. 11 as its concocted pretext and continues today — even after the revelations of its existence by heroic Public Enemy No. 1 Edward Snowden.

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