Democrats are criticizing former Vice President Dick Cheney for initiating a CIA counter-terrorism program that was kept secret from Congress. Details about the program are few, but some speculate that its purpose was to capture and kill al-Qaeda members at close range. CIA director Leon Panetta canceled the program shortly after learning about it last month. Larry Mantle looks into this revelation with guests and listeners.

Greg Miller, national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and co-author of "The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda"

James Bamford, author of numerous books on US intelligence. The latest is "The Shadow Factory", which looked at the NSA during the Bush Administration