The Covert SphereIn December 2010 the U. S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Foura new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U. S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime government spend valuable resources on a melodrama of