Interrogations: The FBI's side of the story
What really happened in the interrogation of high-level detainees like Abu Zubaydah? Depends on who you ask: the FBI or the CIA.
Former CIA official Jose Rodriguez, the man behind the "enhanced interrogation techniques" like waterboarding and sleep deprivation, told his story to Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes this week. It was the first time the public heard his defense of the CIA's harsh interrogation methods that many consider to be torture.
SEC says action against Lehman Brothers is still under review
SEC chair Mary Schapiro was almost done with Congressional testimony earlier this week when one congressman had a final, tough question for her about the fall of Lehman Brothers - and what the SEC did and didn't know during the investment bank's final months before its bankruptcy.
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Kroft: When to give up on accountability
In the summer of 2007, Steve Kroft and his producer Frank Devine began reporting on something called "subprime lending." Little did they know, they'd be following that story through five years of global economic tumult.
Continue Reading »The last Christian village in the Holy Land
This week, veteran 60 Minutes producer Harry Radliffe threw Overtime a real plum: the story of Taybeh.
Continue Reading »Mike's colleagues share stories and snapshots
From producers to the make-up artist, almost everyone at 60 Minutes has a great Mike Wallace story...
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Polo ponies: Through the lens of 60 Minutes
"It was clear from the beginning that this wasn't going to be an ordinary shoot," said Lara Logan said. She and her team were just finishing up the final edit of this week's 60 Minutes story on polo, when we managed to sneak her into the Overtime studio to ask her about the magnificent footage of polo ponies in her piece. How did the team get those shots? Where were the cameras positioned? How did they manage to get those gorgeous slow-motion shots, we wondered.
Continue Reading »Soaring songs from an orchestra you'll never forget
Handel's "Messiah"
The Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra is the only symphony orchestra in Central Africa and the only all-black orchestra in the world. Watch its volunteer musicians and vocalists perform Handel's "Messiah."
Continue Reading »Producer finds musical "sweet spot" in the Congo
A special post by the producer of this week's 60 Minutes story "Joy in the Congo," Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson:
This story would probably not have been done by 60 Minutes had it not been for the insistence of a friend that I see a German documentary about a symphony orchestra in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC. Everything that seems to come out of the DRC these days is not good: civil war, child soldiers and worst of all the systematic rape of women as a weapon of war. The fact that an orchestra managed to exist in the midst of all of this was something that had to be seen to be believed.
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