“Bodyguard of Lies” is a documentary about the Afghan war that grew out of The Washington Post’s “The Afghanistan Papers” project and Post reporter Craig Whitlock’s similarly-titled book. Those works in turn owed much to Whitlock’s discovery of a trove of hundreds of interviews conducted by the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction with U.S. officials who assumed their words would not be made public. The interviews revealed a marked difference between what those officials said in private and what they said when the cameras were rolling. (It required two lawsuits by the Post to pry the interview recordings and transcripts from the grip of the U.S. government.)
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