Blackwater USA Audio & Video

[description] Today the CIA is showing members of Congress what it claims are videotaped images of North Koreans working inside a Syrian nuclear site, before the site was bombed and destroyed by Israel last year. We speak with Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, Robin Wright, about why the images are surfacing now. For the first time since the Spanish Influenza of 1918, life expectancy has fallen for nearly one in five American women. The drop is due largely to obesity, diabetes, and smoking-related diseases, and was found primarily in counties in Appalachia, the lower Midwest, and the Deep South. We speak with study co-author, Dr. Majid Ezzati of Harvard's School of Public Health and nurse practitioner, Helen Robinson, of the Free Clinic of the New River Valley in Christiansburg, Virginia. The State Department recently renewed its contract with the private security firm Blackwater, despite an ongoing FBI probe into the company's actions in Iraq. An article in this month's Mother Jo

[description] We'll speak with David Johnston of the New York Times, who broke the story today that federal agents investigating a September 16th shooting in a Baghdad traffic circle have found that the deaths of 14 of the 17 Iraqi civilians killed that day were unjustified, and that there is no evidence to back the claims of Blackwater guards who claim they were shot at first. Cloned animals and their offspring are making their way to market, and perhaps your dinner plate. The FDA last year said that meat and milk from cloned animals were safe to eat, but the agency asked ranchers to hold off on selling byproducts of cloned animals until they came up with a formal policy. That decision still hasn't come, and some farmers, fed up with waiting, have already sold their animals on the open market. We speak to one of those ranchers, Don Coover, of Galesburg, Kansas. As the nation's baby-boomer population ages, the number of Americans who need long- term health care is expected to rise dramaticall

[description] Iraq wants millions from Blackwater USA. Gov. Patrick: casinos won't heal all of the state's fiscal ills. The news of the week in audio, from WBZ's Dave Mager.

[description] Guards from a private security firm shot and killed 2 women in Baghdad yesterday. The guards says the women, who were in a car, ignored their commands to stop. The incident adds to the controversy that broke open when guards from Blackwater USA killed at least 17 people in an incident last month. We speak to Tina Susman, Baghdad Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times. Drones that can spray 'smart water' -- talking security cameras -- computer chips implanted in people to track them. We look at the world of surveillance with Diana Geddes of the Economist magazine. RealtyTrac estimates that nationwide foreclosures will double this year, with the collapse of the sub-prime loan market largely to blame. Arizona ranks seventh in the country for foreclosures. Sergeant Greg Carr works as the Neighborhood Services Supervisor for the police department in Chandler, AZ. He describes what foreclosures have done to his town. What started out as a peaceful kayaking trip for three friend

[description] GOP candidate John McCain talks with Ed Walsh about everything from Blackwater to Hillary Clinton.

[description] We'll have the latest from Congress, where Rep. Henry Waxman is holding hearings into private security contractor Blackwater and its alleged wrongdoings in Iraq. How do you prosecute wrongdoing by military contractors in Iraq? We speak with University of Connecticut law professor Laura Dickinson, who is writing about outsourcing jobs on the battlefield. China is reshaping the world through its use of soft power. That's the argument Joshua Kurlantzick makes in his new book, "Charm Offensive." Soft power is a combination of diplomacy, trade incentives and cultural exchange that China is using to gain access to natural resources in places like Myanmar and Africa. Kurlantzick is a special correspondent for the New Republic and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment's China Program. Dr. Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, tells us about a new study which shows that high school girls who play soccer and basketball as more susceptible to concu

[description] WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks to Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney. He's a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which heard testimony from the founder of Blackwater USA on Tuesday.

[description] WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks to Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch, a member of the House Oversight and Government Committee. The committee heard testimony from the founder of Blackwater USA on Tuesday.

[description] WBZ's Lisa Meyer speaks to Steve Schooner, an Associate Dean of the George Washington University Law School.

[description] ABC's Vic Ratner tells WBZ's Laurie Kirby about a congresional hearing looking into whether the private security firm covered-up Iraqi civilian deaths.