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Brian Ross filed an Investigates feature on ABC based on a report on the War on Drugs in Afghanistan from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ross told us about a "secret kill-or-capture program" launched last October targeting 50 narcotrafficking druglords for assassination. Strictly speaking, Ross noted, the killings are only legal if they occur during combat and are banned "away from the battlefield." He then told us about the loophole that, in effect, turns the US military and CIA operatives into death squads: "Most of the country is considered part of the battlefield, especially in the poppy-growing areas."
Lara Logan visited anchor Katie Couric's set at CBS for a brief q-&-a on Gen Stanley McChrystal's comment that "the Taliban now have the upper hand" in some regions of Afghanistan. Couric asked what that means for the national elections next week. Logan was vague: "In parts of the country…they will have a very difficult time."
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