A thrilling and revealing journey through the growing, secret, lawless, parallel world of "covert operations" by the U.S. in its War on Terror. Award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports on the activities of the mysterious and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the team that took out bin Laden. The JSOC ri,s operations that nobody knows anything about, carried out by men who do not exist on paper, with a license to kill. This exciting and shocking documentary was nominated for an Oscar.