government and wanting to meet al Qaeda, the agency honed in on the tip. So, in 2005, when the Miami FBI learned of a group of men in Liberty City who had formed quasi-religious temple, were allegedly conducting military training, expressing interest in overthrowing the U.S. “We could not allow for anything like that to fall through a gap, again.” “Some of the things that fell through the gap allowed 9/11 to happen,” says former Acting Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI in Miami Anthony Velazquez. The film explores the FBI’s shift to focus on counterterrorism in the wake of 9/11 - working with witnesses and undercover informants to obtain information about potential domestic threats - and offers a window into the agency’s strategy for preventing another tragedy on U.S. “The goal is not to take somebody that is not a terrorist and make them a terrorist.” “This is a cautionary tale… be careful as to how far your undercover agents or your informants push,” says former Department of Justice Counter-Terror chief Mike Mullaney. The documentary goes inside the case and examines this under-reported chapter of 9/11’s legacy - raising questions about the FBI’s tactics, and whether the men posed a legitimate threat to national security. Yet the men had no weapons and never communicated with anyone from al Qaeda. government’s first major post-9/11 domestic counter-terrorism sting. This August, as the 20 th anniversary of September 11, 2001, approaches, FRONTLINE will present IN THE SHADOW OF 9/11, the latest documentary from award-winning director Dan Reed ( LEAVING NEVERLAND) chronicling a pivotal but often forgotten landmark case from the post-9/11 “War on Terror” for the first time on television as a documentary feature.įollowing its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June, Reed’s five-years-in-the making documentary examines the domestic terrorism case of the “Liberty City Seven” - a group of Black men from Miami accused of planning an al Qaeda plot to blow up US buildings, including Chicago’s Sears Tower. Streaming at 7/6c at pbs.org/frontline & in the PBS Video App The story of the biggest alleged al Qaeda plot since 9/11, told for the first time on television as a documentary feature
LEAVING NEVERLAND YOUTUBE SERIES
The decades-old agreement to put a Jackson concert on HBO required that the cable channel not disparage Jackson, which the lawsuit says it did by airing the molestation allegations of Wade Robson and James Safechuck in “Leaving Neverland.Anne Husted Series Publicity Manager, FRONTLINE That means the proceedings will be largely shielded from public view, though Jackson attorneys said in court filings that they would like for them to be as open as possible and sought private arbitration because it was the only way available to sue under the contract. Unless there are further appeals, the case will go to a private arbitrator, which the Jackson estate argued was required by the 1992 contract at the center of the lawsuit. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with two lower courts and ruled in favor of the Jackson estate in its decision on “Leaving Neverland." – A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by the Michael Jackson estate over an HBO documentary about two of the late pop star's sex abuse accusers can go forward in private arbitration.Ī three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.