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August 20th, 2009
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What’s on Tap – Thursday August 20, 2009

Burqa-clad Afghan women show identification cards as they wait to cast their votes at a school converted to a polling center in Kandahar on August 20, 2009. (Photo: BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Burqa-clad Afghan women show identification cards as they wait to cast their votes at a school converted to a polling center in Kandahar on August 20, 2009. (Photo: BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Here are the big stories on the agenda today:

  • Report: CIA hired contracted killers.  Instead of Navy Seals or the Army's Special Ops tracking down al Qaeda, The New York Times reports that in 2004 the job of killing terrorists was outsourced.  The price tag, said to be in the millions.  And the plan was apparently a total bust.
  • Right now the people of Afghanistan are picking a president.  The polls close at 7:30 am ET.  But it looks like Taliban threats are keeping many away.  What will this election mean for America’s mission in the war-torn nation?
  • And halfway through a two-day summit with North Korean diplomats., New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson joins us live.  Find out why Pyongyang says they're owed a seat at the table with the Obama administration.
  • You go, girl.  The new list of the most influential women in the world is out.  One European leader tops the list for the fourth year in a row.  And get this, Oprah isn't even in the top 40!  Our Christine Romans will tell you who else did and didn't make the cut.
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soundoff (6 Responses)
  1. RJ

    Since when has health benefits been a right for anyone? Nobody cares as long as someone else pays for it! My well has run dry, I feel nobody has ever helped me out why should I work hard just to give it away to people who wont help themselves? Its called go without, people have been doing it since the beginning of time! Why is now any different? I`m in the same boat, one illness or accident away from losing it all but thats just the way its been! No more free handouts, this includes $8000 home credits, cash for clunkers, no more free health care, free cell phones, enough is enough!

    August 20, 2009 at 7:55 am |
  2. RJ

    Whatever happened to people just going without? All these liberals crying for what they think will be free health care, first of all there aint nothing for free! I grew up dirt poor and at time we couldnt afford certain things when it got tight! Like cable tv,phone, you know the stuff you CAN live without! I believe some people cant help it and need the free health care but thats hardly the majority of people! Most people could afford health care if they gave up that gas guzzler suv, cell phone, satiellite tv. We need to make people accountable for the services they use from the tax payer!

    August 20, 2009 at 7:45 am |
  3. michael armstrong sr.

    This whole C.I.A. thing sounds like that new Brad Pit movie inglorious basterds.and buisnes is booming.

    August 20, 2009 at 7:33 am |
  4. ronald

    I would believe outsourced killers, would believe Blackwater and even more believe in President Eisenhower's farewell speech.
    You know that one about the Military Industrial Complex.

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

    August 20, 2009 at 7:32 am |
  5. Richard, Kankakee, IL.

    CIA hired contracted killers. This is a war crime, when ever war is profit based, war crimes will occur. Organizations like Blackwater or now called XE, have no controls at all, there only purpose is to complete the mission, with any tools at their disposal even if they are illegal or war crimes. I bet you my left arm Dick Cheney was behinds these war crimes, after all he did, send assassination team around the world!!!

    August 20, 2009 at 7:09 am |
  6. michael armstrong sr.

    The Afghan election means that the American people are blind folded to futhure relations we could loose our grip of power.

    August 20, 2009 at 6:35 am |
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