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Tuesday, November 27, 9-10 pm ET
On PBS' Tuesday night, FRONTLINE addresses an issue of major consequence for all Americans: Is the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties?
FRONTLINE goes behind the mounting debate over the Bush
administration's domestic eavesdropping program and the FBI's
disputed use of national security letters to examine whether the
administration's domestic war on terrorism is jeopardizing our
civil liberties. Reporter Hedrick Smith takes viewers inside the
National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to show
how it works, presenting opposing views over whether this program
clashes with Fourth Amendment constitutional protections of
individual privacy. In another dramatic story, the program shows
how the FBI vacuumed up records on 250,000 ordinary Americans who
chose Las Vegas for their Christmas-New Year's holiday, and the
subsequent revelation that the FBI has misused National Security
Letters to gather information. Probing such Pentagon projects as
Total Information Awareness - and its little known successors -
Smith discloses that even former government intelligence officials
now worry that the combination of new security threats, modern
computer and communications technologies, and radical
interpretations of presidential authority is affecting innocent,
ordinary Americans and may be threatening our liberties.