Policing Iraq

Then, Steven Casteel, a former senior U.S. adviser to Iraq's Interior Ministry; Donna Kerns, who trained Iraqi police at the police academy in Amman, Jordan; and Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco, discuss the details of U.S. involvement in training the Iraqi police forces.

Coping with War
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser gives an encore report on U.S. soldiers experiencing post traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq.

Corruption Scandal
Ray Suarez speaks with Washington Post reporter James Grimaldi about the background of Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a far-reaching congressional corruption scandal.

Shields and Brooks
Syndicated Columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks discuss the legal troubles of Jack Abramoff, the winners and losers of 2005, stories of the year with lasting significance and the performance of President Bush this year with Ray Suarez.

A View from Syria

Guatemala's Past
Saul Gonzalez of KCET-Los Angeles reports on unearthing the remains of victims of Guatemala's civil war.

TV Anytime
Jeffrey Brown gives a Media Unit report on video-on-demand technology and how television content can now be watched on a variety of devices, from iPods to cellular phones to computers.

Then, Brown discusses the latest technology devices with Walt Mossberg, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and Joshua Bernoff, vice president at Forrester Research, a technology and market research firm.

Growing Pains
In an encore report, Ray Suarez looks at the controversy in Brooklyn over a proposed billion-dollar residential and commercial center that would tear down a mix of derelict storefronts and empty lots.

Plea Deal
Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey pleaded guilty Wednesday to a security fraud charge. Gwen Ifill discusses the plea deal and how this development will affect the upcoming trial with Kurt Eichenwald, reporter for The New York Times.

Judge Alito's Views
A new batch of papers by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito were released by the National Archives, including a 1981 memo in which Alito recommended that a Black Panther Party lawsuit not be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Ray Suarez discusses what clues might be revealed about Alito's judicial philosophy with Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University and legal affairs editor for the New Republic, and Stuart Taylor, columnist for National Journal and fellow at the Brookings Institute.

Turnaround Specialist
John Merrow gives the second installment of a report on the difficulties of turning around a troubled inner city school.

Identifying Katrina's Victims
Gwen Ifill reports on the continuing struggle to identify the dead from Hurricane Katrina four months after the storm.

Then, Ifill discusses the slow process of identifying the victims with Robert Travis Scott, reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Stem Cell Scandal
A panel from Seoul National University recently announced it had found deliberate deception in the work of a team of scientists led by Woo Suk Hwang, which claimed to have achieved a breakthrough in stem cell research. Susan Dentzer of the Health Unit provides an update.

Then, Ray Suarez discusses the scandal and its implications for the scientific community with Donald Kennedy, editor of Science; Laurie Zoloth, director of the Center of Bioethics, Science and Society at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine; and David Scadden, doctor and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-director of the Harvard University Stem Cell Institute.

Defending the Sky
Tom Bearden reports on efforts to protect passenger planes from the threat of terrorist missiles.

Conversation: Andrew Natsios
Andrew Natsios, will step down next month after five years overseeing the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

Gwen Ifill talks with Natsios about his work overseeing disaster recovery efforts.

Re-creating Shakespeare
Jeffrey Brown reports on the recreation of London's historic Globe Theatre and speaks with artistic director Mark Rylance, who recently announced he would step down from his post at the end of the year.

One Year Later
One year after the tsunami struck south Asia, John Irvine of Independent Television News reports from one of the disaster's hardest hit areas, Banda Aceh in Indonesia.

Special correspondent Tom Hagler and producer Jonathan Silvers look at recovery efforts along Thailand's Andaman Coast.

Then, for a broader assessment of the problems and progress after the tsunami, Gwen Ifill speaks with Eric Schwartz, U.N. deputy special envoy for tsunami recovery, and Charles McCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children.

Desperate Times in Pakistan
Bill Neely of Independent Television news provides an update from Pakistan as thousands of earthquake victims struggle to survive treacherous winter conditions.

Reporting Secrets
Recent investigate pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post have reignited the debate over when it is legitimate to publish sensitive intelligence information.

Jeffrey Brown looks at this government-media relations story with Scott Armstrong, an investigative journalist and executive director of Information Trust, and James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.

Wounded Warrior
Susan Dentzer revisits the family of Jay Briseno, a soldier who was critically wounded when he was shot pointblank while serving in Iraq in 2003.

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