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Pakistanis are in an uproar over the release today of CIA contractor Raymond Davis. He was freed after paying two million dollars in "blood money" to the families of two men he shot and killed in January. He maintains the men were trying to rob him. The blood money is a provision commonly used under […]

There are more private contractors than American troops in Afghanistan. To find out more about their roles, The Takeaway speaks with author Jeremy Scahill and Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association.

It is now revealed that the CIA hired and trained contractors from Blackwater USA to assassinate top al Qaeda operatives, an act that was never revealed to lawmakers. The Takeaway talks to Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times reporter who broke the story.

We’re taking a look today at the history of soldier-on-soldier violence in the U.S. military with Paul Springer, professor of history at the United States Military Academy, West Point and Major Dena Braeger, Executive Officer to the Dean of West Point.