How different are what political leaders say in public and what they may have known in private? The documentary “Iraq’s Secret War Files” reveals that it is often divergent. Executive producer Iain Overton and the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism were given first-look access to nearly 400,000 WikiLeaks reports detailing American involvement in Iraq under President Barack Obama. Overton and the bureau craft a critique of what they describe as the “war and occupation that the U.S. military doesn’t want you to know.”
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Trailer for a report from the Center for Investigative Reporting on American conduct in Iraq, in case you don’t feel...
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