Bill Moyers built this 1987 broadcast around a question that outlasted the Reagan administration: how much of American foreign policy is run by officials no voter elected and no Congress can fully see. He traces the machinery back to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA and, Moyers argues, opened the door to covert operations that answer only to the executive branch. The film's central case is Iran-Contra, laying out how arms sales to Iran funded Contra rebels in Nicaragua and how those operations intersected with drug-running that helped flood American cities with crack cocaine. Moyers interviews officials, intelligence veterans, and journalists who worked the story as it broke, building a timeline of decisions made in secret and only partly exposed by congressional hearings. There is no reenactment here, just period footage, hearing clips, and on-camera testimony assembled into an argument about accountability. The version circulating today runs the full ninety minutes, with sound intact except for one brief muted music cue.