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Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, selected to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has deep experience in secretive special operations. But his new job will require diplomacy in dealing with coalition partners and the Afghan government. McChrystal faces confirmation hearings in the Senate on June 2.

The freshman senator from Kentucky emerged this week as the prominent voice against Patriot Act surveillance provisions. He battled leaders of both parties to consider the impact of the measure on Americans' privacy.

Lawyer James Cole is in line to serve as the deputy attorney general, but an op-ed on the Sept. 11 attacks and his role monitoring bookkeeping for insurance giant AIG could spur Republican opposition to his confirmation.

Journalist Steve Coll discusses "The General's Dilemma," his profile of General David Petraeus, which appears in the Sept. 8, 2008 issue The New Yorker.

Americans observe the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, with soldiers in Afghanistan lowering the flag to half-staff at a U.S. base while victims' relatives gathered at ceremonies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Beijing has long argued its army is primarily defensive, and Chinese senior officers insist the country is decades behind the U.S. But the speed of China's military development is unnerving its neighbors and the United States.

The Pentagon said Monday it is charging the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and five other al-Qaida prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes, saying prosecutors would seek the death penalty in all the cases.

We talk about Wong Kar-Wai's first English language film “My Blueberry Nights” and Phil Donahue joins Beth Accomando and Scott Marks to talk about his new documentary “Body of War.”

Hundreds of secret documents show that military and counterterrorism analysts sometimes found it difficult to determine whether those held in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were truly dangerous.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether alleged Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan was a radical Islamist ideologue or an alienated loner. The U.S. has focused significant intelligence resources on the question of radicalization in recent years, but they admit the dynamics are still not well understood.