PBS, in their liberal/misguided fog, nailed one.
Bump for an interesting, revealing, horrifying, sad, ironic story.........and a good piece of tele-journalism.
I keep telling people that Frontline is NOT the unremitting platform of leftist spin that it was years ago. I don't know quite what happened, or why, and of course the lib-spin will reemerge from time to time, but over the last few years they have done many very excellent documentaries.
In addition to The Man Who Knew, they also did one on Robert Baer, possibly the best Middle East agent of the last couple decades, probably the only Western intelligence agent to ever operate within the Bekka Valley, and who solved the Beruit Embassy bombing of '83 (Terrorfat did it on Iran's orders). Battle for the Holy Land was very fair to the Israelis, explaining in detail the rational for their "targeted killings," the political/judicial process of vetting targets, and highlighting IDF professionalism. The War Behind Closed Doors, about the origin of the doctrine of "preemption," was likewise very fair to Wolfowitz and the "neocon" hawks (and I say this as an advocate of that ilk). What else? Oh, yeah, their Muslims, although not without a few flaws, was worlds better than the shamlessly hagiographic PBS doc Mohammed: Legacy of a Prophet, and included many experts freepers would respect. Finally they did a whole series of docs on Iraq, and never shyed away from exposing the brutality of Saddam or his lies.