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Intelligence Roundup

Underscoring the revelation that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan was a double agent, a new report excoriates American intelligence efforts in Afghanistan, saying local newspapers offer more information to policy makers than intelligence reports. At home, President Obama meets today to discuss intelligence failures that allowed an alleged terrorist to board a U.S.-bound flight over Christmas. We'll have a full roundup with Siobhan Gorman, intelligence reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Bringing Healthy Foods to Inner Cities

Shoppers peruse the produce section at The Fresh Grocer supermarket in West Philadelphia Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Getting nutritious food to inner cities isn't easy, but Philadelphia and Pennsylvania officials are working on ways to lure retailers, including local chain The Fresh Grocer. (A)
Shoppers peruse the produce section at The Fresh Grocer supermarket in West Philadelphia August, 2005. Pennsylvania officials are working on ways to lure retailers, including local chain The Fresh Grocer. (AP)

Energy Efficient Traffic Lights Too Cool To Melt Snow

In this Dec. 2009 image made from television, a city employee scrapes off snow from a traffic light in Milwaukee after a recent snow storm. Drivers have found out the hard way about one downside to the energy-saving LED lights many communities are installing to replace older incandescent bulbs _ they might save money but they don't melt snow very well.  (AP/TMJ4 Television)
A city employee scrapes snow off a traffic light in Milwaukee, December, 2009. (AP/TMJ4 Television)

Lessons from Libya

The Libyan government claims it has convinced a group that had close ties to Osama bin Laden to renounce Al Qaeda and its violent methods. Members of the extremist Libyan Islamic Fighting Group trained with bin Laden in Afghanistan and they could provide a windfall of intelligence to the West. Borzou Daragahi of the Los Angeles Times met with the group recently in Tripoli and joins us with more.

Musician Dave Rawlings

Musician Dave Rawlings is better known as bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian's Welch's other half. Now Rawlings has stepped from the background with his first solo CD, under the name, "The Dave Rawlings Machine." It's called "A Friend of a Friend" and he joined us from Nashville to talk about it.

Music from the show

  • Kar Kar Madison, "Boubacar Traore"
  • Ahmad Jamal, "Patterns"
  • The Funk Brothers, "Keep Me Hangin' On"
  • Steve Earle, "America v6.0"
  • Fred Hirsch, "Desafinado"
  • Peter Dixon, "Nagog Woods"
  • Rodrigo and Gabriela, "Logos"
  • Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, "Caleb Meyer"
  • Dave Rawlings, "I Hear Them All"
  • Jesse Fuller, "Monkey And The Engineer," performed by Dave Rawlings
  • Neil Young, "Cortez The Killer," performed by Dave Rawlings
  • Dave Rawlings, "Bells of Harlem"

This program aired on January 5, 2010.

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