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The Wire, Season 6: Kabul Boys

In which McNulty, exiled to an agricultural-training mission in rural Afghanistan, winds up bringing down the Afghan president. LAT:

U.S. spy agencies have already stepped up their scrutiny of corruption in Kabul. The recent Senate report described a wiretapping system activated last year that is aimed at tracing ties between government officials and drug kingpins in the country.

Yes, my setup was a joke--but this surveillance is not. It's not hard to imagine it leading us to some inconvenient places.