00:00In 1967, a 45-man U.S. Special Forces unit moved through the central highlands of Vietnam.
00:06What they did there stayed buried for nearly 30 years. Tiger Force wasn't a rogue squad that went
00:11off the rails. It was an elite unit operating inside a system that looked the other way.
00:16Over seven months, soldiers massacred unarmed villagers. They collected severed ears as
00:21trophies. They killed prisoners who had already surrendered. The Army found out. Investigators
00:26spent four years building a case. They identified over 100 criminal acts and named specific soldiers
00:32responsible. Then, in 1975, the Army buried the entire investigation. No charges. No courts
00:38marshal. No accountability. The files were quietly sealed. It took a Pulitzer Prize winning investigation
00:44in 2003 for the public to finally learn what happened. But here is the part that stays with
00:49you. The violence wasn't the cover-up. The cover-up was the system working exactly as designed. A
00:54government can choose not to know. And sometimes, it chooses perfectly.
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