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Profiting From Fallen Soldiers
In this series, reporter David Evans exposed how "more than 130 life insurance companies" devised a system that allowed them to profit from death benefits that were "owed to families of service members, government workers and millions of other Americans." MetLife and Prudential led the scheme. Evans revealed that the companies withheld $28 billion owed to the families of deceased soldiers. The story prompted "almost immediate changes in U.S. government policies."
Tags: life insurance; MetLife; Prudential; Robert Gates; Veterans; taxpayer; American Legion; military
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Enemies at the Gate
"This hour-long NBC News broadcast is an unprecedented investigation into the international black market in passports. It exposes what the head of Interpol considers a "gaping hole" in global security, especially in terms of terrorism."
Tags: black market; passports; criminal networks; fraudulent identity papers; document brokers;
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What Went Wrong; How The U.S Missed The Clues; How Safe Now?
This set of three stories delves into the huge system failure hidden behind the 9/11 attacks. Newsweek reports on the various signals before that day which hinted at a possible disaster and those the administration chose to ignore. What follows is an account of Bush's first reactions to a disclosure that he had been warned earlier about the possibility of Al Qaeda hijackings in the United States. And after detailing the four key mistakes instrumental in the U.S missing the clues and not knowing what to do, the Newsweek team finds that the security system is broken and much is left undone. Also included are opinion pieces by a former CIA Chief and an anonymous FBI Field Agent.
Tags: Terrorism; War; Homeland Security; Al Qaeda; September 11; 9/11; Airports; FBI; CIA; George Bush; Condoleeza Rice; WTC
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"How a Plot Convulsed Iran In '53 (and In '79)"
Newly declassified C.I.A. documents prompted this examination of America's role in the 1979 Iranian revolution, which installed an Islamic regime and began "a generation of anti-American hatred in one of the Middle East's most powerful countries." The evidence suggests a disturbing pattern of overextended efforts by the U.S. government to instigate coups around the world as part of Cold War strategy.
Tags: Shah; TP-Ajax; Bay of Pigs; Communist; Mohammed Mossadegh; Robert Gates; R. James Woolsey; Donald N. Wilbur; Ayatollah Khomeini; oil
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No title (id: 8206)
CNN Special Assignment (New York) questions Robert Gates' repeated sworn testimony that he was kept in the dark and knew nothing about the secret White House gunrunning operations to Iran and to the Nicaraguan rebels, Sept. 13, 1991.
Tags: TAPE
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No title (id: 7840)
Village Voice (New York) takes a close look into the career history of Robert Gates, George Bush's nominee for CIA director; investigates Gates' involvement in the Iran-contra affair and the arming of Iraq, June 4, 1990.
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