Could the '08 Mumbai Attack Have Been Prevented? (American Terrorist)

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigated how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the plotters behind the deadly 2008 siege in Mumbai and how American-born David Coleman Headley, a former DEA informant, played a key role in the plot. (Aired 2015) When Edward Snowden exposed the U.S. National...

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