CIA vs. Justice Department. We’ll talk with partisans on both sides, and debate the merits of Attorney General Holder’s decision to name a special prosecutor.

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough on how the failed assassination of one Hamas leader changed the course of Mideast politics.

Our first hour today got down deep into the battle going on right now in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. If you want a sense of what it’s like on the front lines, there are some striking photos and videos to check out online.

A hot summer in Afghanistan. Coalition forces pushing village by village into Taliban turf. We’ll go to the front lines — and strategy — of the Afghan push.

Does it make any difference that journalists already revealed many of the torture details? Does that justify the release of the torture memos?

Torture memos, Obama Justice, and national security. What kind of change is Obama bringing to Bush-era policies? We’ll hear the debate.

President Obama speaks in Turkey, and reaches out to the Muslim world. We’ll hear reactions from across the region.

Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command until last year, gives us his read on threats, and opportunities, now in the Middle East and beyond.

After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.

Seven years after 9/11, has Al Qaeda achieved its goals? And if so, does America need to rethink its post-9/11 strategy?

The 2001 anthrax case may be drawing to a dramatic close. But plenty of questions remain about the government’s effort to counter bioterrorism. We look at the threats and the nation’s readiness.

The big news in Western media out of Al Qaeda country lately is that Al Qaeda is in trouble. That the spearhead of global terrorism is being rejected by mainstream Muslims sick of death and destruction, even rejected by onetime theorists of jihad.
New Yorker magazine reporter Lawrence Wright has gone deep on what he calls [...]

Conservative legal hot shot Jack Goldsmith was tapped for a key job in the Bush Justice Department in part because of his “get tough” reputation on terror.
But within hours of getting inside as head of the Office of Legal Counsel — the office that sets legal boundaries for the presidency — this conservative top gun [...]

Six years tomorrow. Six years since 9/11.
It’s getting to be a long time. Maybe now it’s time to look at where we’ve been. If Pearl Harbor galvanized the nation in one direction, 9/11 galvanized it in many. Pro-war, anti-war, right, left, and scattered center.
Politicians and pundits have analyzed how and why. Now the psychologists are [...]