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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Finally tonight, a new book about a major change in the way America fights.
The attacks of September 11th sparked a revolution of sorts at the Central Intelligence Agency, transforming it from an operation focused on stealing secrets to something closer to a paramilitary organization focused on hunting down and killing terrorists.
The Department of Defense has evolved as well, beefing up its global intelligence gathering capabilities, and at times conducting missions that were previously done by the spies of the CIA.
New York Times national security correspondent Mark Mazzetti tracks all this in "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth."
Margaret Warner sat down with him recently, and began by asking when it first became apparent that the line between spies and soldiers had blurred.
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