uprising, you suppress it. syria s president, bashar al-assad, the man behind the crackdown. those who believed in president bashar al-assad lost all their faith when the first bullet was fired at a civilian. this is how the assads, both father and son, deal with domestic threats. can this regime stop today s revolution? there s no question, at this point, that the syrian government thinks it s won. these two stories on this special edition of frontine. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and
the regime has a playbook. you have a protest, you have an uprising, you suppress it. syria s president, bashar al-assad, the man behind the crackdown. those who believed in president bashar al-assad lost all their faith when the first bullet was fired at a civilian. this is how the assads, both father and son, deal with domestic threats. can this regime stop today s revolution? there s no question, at this point, that the syrian government thinks it s won. these two stories on this special edition of frontine. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedic
uprising, you suppress it. syria s president, bashar al-assad, the man behind the crackdown. those who believed in president bashar al-assad lost all their faith when the first bullet was fired at a civilian. this is how the assads, both father and son, deal with domestic threats. can this regime stop today s revolution? there s no question, at this point, that the syrian government thinks it s won. these two stories on this special edition of frontine. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and
narrator: tonight on frontline. black: after 9/11, the gloves come off. narrator: .ten years after september 11. immerman: what happens after 9/11 is this tremendous ramping up. priest: the money just came out of congress. it was flying out. narrator: .pulitzer prize- winning journalist dana priest investigates the creation of top secret america. stanger: it s shrouded in secrecy. schroen: we weren t going to play by the old set of rules. radsan: go out and get the bad guys; disrupt them, interrogate them, kill them. narrator: tonight on frontline, top secret america. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public in
spiritual aftershocks of september 11. i asked god in the beginning, you know, if you can give me just one, i d appreciate it. ( laughs ) but i knew from being a fireman that my son couldn t have been in a worse possible position. narrator: those who lost loved ones, and many other americans, are haunted by questions of faith. today our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature. narrator: was it true evil the world witnessed that day? was religion itself to blame? and where was god on september 11? i couldn t believe that this god that i d talked to in my own way for 35 years turned this loving man into bones. and now i can t bring myself to speak to him anymore because i feel so abandoned. narrator: tonight, confessions of faith and doubt at ground zero. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t