This must be the best episode of Frontline I have ever seen. It was riveting. And in my opinion, the very best part of it is when they show Michael Hayden walking amongst the crowd right before President Bush presented his public response to the torture accusations. They made no commentary on Hayden, but they showed him very deliberately. Hayden played a key role in the NSA spying program that would eventually be revealed to the world by Edward Snowden, and seeing Hayden immediately added that entire enterprise of deception to the context of the story being told. That single shot of him added a huge amount of depth and gravity to the whole thing.
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