FRONTLINE’s Season Premiere

FRONTLINE’s Season Premiere Investigates Cheney’s Efforts to Expand the Power of the Presidency –

For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an expansive and extraordinary way, granting President George W. Bush the power to detain, interrogate, torture, wiretap and spy –– without congressional approval or judicial review.

Now, as the White House appears ready to ignore subpoenas in the wiretapping and U.S. attorneys cases, FRONTLINE’s season premiere, “Cheney’s Law,” airing Tuesday, October 16 at 10:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2, examines the battle over the power of the presidency and Cheney’s way of looking at the Constitution.

You can watch a preview clip of Cheney's Law here on uVu.  For clips from other new programs click on the links to uVu
Showdown with Iran, October 23
The Undertaking, October 30
FRONTLINE/World, November 6
On Our Watch, November 20

You can also see the entire episodes after the broadcast by visiting the FRONTLINE On Demand video site on Channel2.org.