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This has to be the most definitive document about CIA. Instead of following the route of endless criticism (and there is a lot available), the filmmakers let the CIA directors speak. And they do it with with candidness. Only very experienced interwievers can do this. We can probably never get any nearer to the most secretive organisation in the world. It shows CIAs job and position being very difficult. And it surely is. How can you stop violence and threat of violence in the world? With compassion? No. With violence? It only begets more violence. It would be very good If Americans and other nations finally realised that you can't win an ideologue or religion by destroying it's supporters. It only feeds more extremists. After AL gaida came Isis. And what is next? Highly recommended.

Though the interviewer pretends to ask though questions, it's clear the documentary has an underlying agenda to justify our wrong choices made pre and post 9-11.

This "documentary" looks and sounds like exactly what it is: A poorly disguised propaganda film, with only one purpose in mind: To provide justification for torture and other crimes against humanity and all the crimes committed by CIA and other US government agencies in their war against terrorism. We are having to put almost two hours to watch CIA employees one after another providing various excuses trying (mostly in vain) to provide justification, that there is nothing wrong in torture - or that there is nothing wrong with killing few thousand innocent civilians in a drone attacks, where both the decision maker and the button pusher are, what you could only call as "soccer moms", who are quite clearly obviously indifferent and unemphatic, with a certain type of ignorance and arrogance added for a good measure. Watching these people say on screen that there is nothing wrong with what they did makes this "documentary" an unbearable experience to watch. This is so blatantly fascist and evil in nature, that you can only wonder what happened to the idea of human rights in USA?

It has been a well known fact for a while now, that all mainstream media must first relay a report to the CIA before printing it, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they also do this with the film industry. Most of our population has been brainwashed into believing these people actually keep us safe, where a very good argument can be said to the opposite. Every CIA director has the personality of a self-righteous psychopath, so this is no surprise, them trying to moralize their cruel actions. Does anyone think it's a coincidence that two months after JFK voiced his plans to get rid of the CIA, that he was murdered? The CIA is simply the world's leading terrorist organization in the world by leaps and bounds.