SH: Yeah, well the production of this documentary began early in 2007 and there were discussions with PBS from the beginning - it's being made, it's being funded, and we'll need an air slot for it some time in the fall of 2008, it'll be finished in May of 2008. There was a general agreement; all was fine. Then when the documentary was finalized and submitted to PBS, they held on to it and were silent for a while, and then they came back and they told Shirley Jones, the producer, well, we're sorry, but due to scheduling problems and other considerations, we cannot find time for this before January 21, 2009.
GG: That was the date that they gave for when the first date that it could possibly be broadcast, and what's the significance of that date?
SH: And that is the first day of the new administration. So they basically said broadcast of this feature hinges on the regime change in Washington DC. Rather an extraordinary admission, I think.
So we can't see the Frontline documentary about Bush's torture while Bush is still in office? Is there really anything about it that we don't already know?
Read the whole interview with Glenn Greenwald, or listen to it, here.
And there's more about "Torturing Democracy" here.
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