Kabul, Afghanistan, four in the morning. As an American jounalist I was used to finding...
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Kabul, Afghanistan, four in the morning. As an American jounalist I was used to finding stories in the middle of the night. But there is always something eerie, driving through the deserted streets. A city of three million, barely a streetlight on. There was a familiar routine, waiting for the crew to light up the next set so that you could see something in the background. But what could we really see?
Kabul, Afghanistan, four in the morning. As an American jounalist I was used to finding stories in the middle of the night. But there is always something eerie, driving through the deserted streets. A city of three million, barely a streetlight on. There was a familiar routine, waiting for the crew to light up the next set so that you could see something in the background. But what could we really see?
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in Afghanistan
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I'd worked in Baghdad for years
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and had written countless stories there
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many from the front lines of the war
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It was there that I first started reporting
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for The Nation magazine
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But I'd never heard of JSOC
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The budget for the Joint Special Operations Command
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you can't get it through a FOIA request
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We've tried that
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I'd missed the most important story
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In Iraq the U S had fundamentally changed
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the way it fought war
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The real story JSOC
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Movie Summary
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
