Entries Tagged as 'Fred Fleitz'
June 18th, 2015 ·
SARAH WESTWOOD, investigative journalist for the Washington Examiner and Fox News contributor:
- Why did Hillary Clinton not designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group?
- Sidney Blumenthal’s covert and unvetted exchange of intelligence with Clinton
- Likelihood of Clinton testifying again before the Benghazi committee
MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor in Cchief of the Washington Free Beacon:
- Hillary Clinton's support of President Obama’s ISIS policy
- Background on Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy record
- The growing threats from China and Russia
FRED FLEITZ, Center for Security Policy Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs, and former CIA analyst:
- President Obama’s latest concessions to Iran
- What Congress can do to slow down the Iranian deal
- How the U.S. is enabling Iran’s enrichment of uranium
- Tehran’s sponsorship of Hezbollah
Maj. Gen. PAUL VALLELY, Retired U.S. Army Deputy Commanding General in the Pacific:
- The creation of the Legacy National Security Advisory Group
- Does any presidential candidate have a plan to defeat ISIS?
- Why revitalizing the US military is so critical
- General advice to the 2016 presidential candidates
Tags: Fred Fleitz
June 4th, 2015 ·
Rep. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), member of the House Armed Services Committee, and former Army Ranger:
- A look at the vulnerabilities of the United States’ electrical grid
- The fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State
- American options to defeat the Islamic State and Iranian-backed militias
JOSÉ CÁRDENAS, former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID:
- The truth about economic and investment opportunities in Cuba
- The cost to the U.S. taxpayer of future U.S. Chamber of Commerce dealings in Havana
- Congressional opposition to continued concessions to the Castro regime
Rep. MIKE FITZPATRICK (PA-8), Chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus:
- An overview of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine
- Is Putin likely to invade Ukraine?
- The role fracking can play in reducing European dependence on Russian energy
- New legislation aimed at cutting financing to terrorist organizations
FRED FLEITZ, Center for Security Policy Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs, and former CIA analyst:
- The New York Times admits that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium has increased during nuclear negotiations
- Why Tehran’s continued missile delivery system research is particularly troubling
- What is non-negotiable in any final deal with the mullahs?
Tags: Jose Cardenas · Fred Fleitz
May 28th, 2015 ·
FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy and former CIA analyst:
- President Obama’s appeasement of Iran
- A potential surveillance-bill compromise in Congress
- New information in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s email disclosures
REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Foreign Policy Analyst at the George C. Marshall Institute:
- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference destroyed the arms control construct against Tehran
- Failure to reign in Iran's ballistic missile program in the proposed framework deal
- Predicting the devastation of an EMP attack on America’s unguarded shores
ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:
- The concern raised by the Islamic State's capture of Ramadi
- An increased possibility of conventional and nuclear war in the Middle East
- Criticisms of the Senate's "Jihad Caucus"
- Discussing the lack of leadership in the Republican Party
RUSS DALLEN, Publisher of the Latin American Herald Tribune:
- Venezuela’s inflation rate said by some to be as high as 500%
- Caracas stifling civil unrest through the use of Cuban shock troops
- U.S. strategic interests in Latin America
Tags: Andy McCarthy · Fred Fleitz
July 17th, 2014 ·
Former Israeli Ambassador YORAM ETTINGER:
- Situation report on the conflict between Israel and Hamas
- Global consequences of not dealing successfully dealing with Hamas
- Ways in which Israel can make use of the knowledge it gained from past disputes with Hamas
BILL ROGGIO, of The Long War Journal:
- Exploitation of the U.S. border crisis by enemies of America
- The conflict in Gaza and how Hamas is fairing
- Analyzing why Israel is still viewed as a pariah by the international media, despite exercising restraint in its tactical strikes in Gaza
- Iraqi military's recent surprise defeat in Tikrit at the hands of the Islamic State
MICHAEL S. SMITH II, co-founder of Kronos Advisory:
- The concept of ba'yat amongst Al Qaeda and other terror groups
- Growing rift between ISIS and Al Qaeda
- Similarities in goals and ideologies among terror groups such as ISIS, Hamas, and Al Qaeda
FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- Have the security implications of Chinese internet giant Alibaba's IPO entry into the US marketplace been sufficiently analyzed?
- New reports about the NSA's data collection program
- Approaching July 20th deadline for the Iranian nuclear talks, and the possibility of sanctions if a deal is not made
Tags: Bill Roggio · Yoram Ettinger · Fred Fleitz
July 10th, 2014 ·
FRED FLEITZ, fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- New documents leaked by Edward Snowden detailing NSA and FBI surveillance practices
- Misleading claims made by Glen Greenwald about the NSA's spying targets in the American Muslim community
- The Council on American Islamic Relations' connections to Hamas
JOSHUA MURAVCHIK, author of "Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel":
- Influence
of the works of Columbia University Professor Edward Said on the
international attitude towards the US-Palestinian conflict
- The current threat Hamas poses to Israel
- State of the Obama Administration's relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel
- Material and intellectual trends in the second half of the 20th century that transformed international attitudes towards Israel
- The role the United Nations has played in legitimizing the demonization of Israel
BILL ROGGIO, editor of the Long War Journal:
- ISIS and the shifting alliances in Syria and Iraq
- Internal conflict within Al-Qaeda
- The Iranian presence in Iraq
Tags: Bill Roggio · Fred Fleitz
June 26th, 2014 ·
BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of The Long War Journal:
- ISIS' ambitions to extend into Jordan and Lebanon
- The financial strength of ISIS and how state-sponsored terrorism is facilitating sectarian conflict in the Middle East
- Should the administration rethink its troop withdrawal policy towards Afghanistan, given recent events in Iraq?
FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- ISIS' origins
- Political intelligence failures of the Obama Administration
- The controversies surrounding the use of drones
- Next steps in the legal system for Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khatallah
Congressman JOHN CARTER, of the 31st Congressional District of Texas:
- President Obama's role in the skyrocketing amount of undocumented immigrants seeking amnesty in the U.S.
- How the border patrol, police, Texas and the United States are being affected by the surge of illegal immigrants
- Ideas for what the U.S. should do to handle the influx of illegal immigrants
BILL GERTZ, senior editor of The Washington Free Beacon:
- China's inclusion in RIMPAC, a large international naval exercise: What message does it send to America's allies in the Pacific?
- Russia's recent cruise missile tests amid international tensions over the Ukraine situation
- Implications of a recent successful test of the US missile defense system
- North Korean outrage over a new film about American journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong Un
Tags: Bill Roggio · Bill Gertz · Fred Fleitz
June 13th, 2014 ·
JOSEPH F. CONNOR, co-author of "The New Founders"
- Does the recent release of five top-level jihadists signal the imminent closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison?
- The
public security crisis associated with the release of 36,000 criminal
illegal aliens from incarceration, including some former terrorists
- Attorney General Eric Holder's role in the release of FALN terrorists and, more recently, the five Taliban leaders
RUSS RAMSLAND, Texas Tea Party leader:
- Details of the weak "Texas Solution" to immigration that was shot down at the recent Texas GOP Convention
- Connection between the immigration debate and Erick Cantor's loss
- Public safety risk being posed by a surge of illegal aliens crossing the US's southern border
BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Free Beacon and the Washington Times:
- The
Justice Department is in talks with representatives of Edward Snowden,
who include a lawyer well-known for his history of success in winning
spies plea deals
- Implications of a confirmation that Russia is in material breach of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
- A show of force incident on Monday in which Russian bombers flew within 50 miles of the US coast
- Chinese
officials are claiming that a visit to a U.S. Carrier has provided them
with "valuable military insights"--despite a 1999 law forbidding
Chinese officers from visiting certain US power projection capabilities
FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy:
- Is Chuck Hagel being forced to take the fall for Obama and Susan Rice in the Bergdahl trade controversy?
- Debating whether a plea deal is acceptable if Edward Snowden can guarantee that leaks of the stolen US documents stop
- Points
of fact on Iraq: ISIS is not "and Syria," but "and the Sham," which
represents a "greater Syria." ISIS is a terrorist army, manned by pre-US
invasion Iraqi military members
Tags: Bill Gertz · Fred Fleitz
June 6th, 2014 ·
Congressman RON DeSANTIS, Representative for Florida's 6th District:
- Questioning Susan Rice's assertion that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction"
- Debate over continuing to provide aid to the Palestinian National Authority in light of the new Fatah-Hamas joint government
- Arguments for President Obama having acted in violation of the Constitution
FRED FLEITZ, Center for Security Policy:
- 70th anniversary of D-Day
- Shifting
justifications for why Congress was not briefed before the release of
the five Taliban prisoners from Gitmo, and declining confidence in
National Security Advisor Susan Rice
- Is the Bergdahl prisoner exchange an indication of further Guantanamo Bay releases to come?
- Predictions on whether the $5 million in nonlethal military aid promised to Ukraine will make any difference
ROSEMARY JENKS, Numbers USA:
- Security consequences of minor aliens illegally immigrating to the U.S. from Central America
- Critiques of a proposal to grant legalized status to illegal immigrants who serve in the U.S. military
- Eric Cantor's direct role in the future of a House amnesty bill
BILL ROGGIO, The Long War Journal:
- What are the implications of Qatar's assistance in negotiating the hostage exchange between the Haqqani Network and the U.S.?
- Role played by the Islamic State of Iraq in undermining stability in the country
- Concerning willingness of the Obama administration to deal with terror groups
Tags: Rosemary Jenks · Bill Roggio · Fred Fleitz
May 23rd, 2014 ·
Congressman TOM MARINO (PA-10):
- Steps the US should have taken against Russia and Putin's tsarist ambitions
- Importance of protecting the US grid technology
- The internet's potential to be used as a weapon, and the national security implications of turning it over to the international community
- Arguments for why a strong NATO and an international military squad to defend US interests are needed
ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:
- Russia's soft power
- Assessing the probability of a change in Russian strategy to gain back some of the post-Soviet satellites
- The truth behind Iranian President Rouhani's moderate background
Senator DAN COATS:
- US policy towards Russia
- American over-dependence on Russia for space travel, and what the consequences could be if Russia does restrict American access to the International Space Station
- NSA's failure to win the public debate over data collection because of misrepresentations about the program; difficulty in finding a balance between American privacy and intelligence needs
- Why surrendering the internet to the international community as planned would be a "terrible mistake"
BILL GERTZ, Washington Free Beacon:
- New Russian hypersonic nuclear missile system
- Under estimating China's nuclear arsenal build up
- Chinese Russian Naval cooperation
- Chinese cyber warfare capability and U.S. response
FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- Interpreting the newly passed USA Freedom Act in the House, which reigns in the NSA phone data collection program: how will phone companies be compelled to store the data and respond to NSA requests?
- Evolution of the USA Freedom Act, and how it is meant to be a compromise between the polarized views on data collection
- Update on the Iranian nuclear talks: the likelihood that Iran will be allowed to keep a heavy water reactor capable of producing plutonium
- Chinese cyber-espionage, and the US's treatment of such an act of war as a legal matter
Tags: Bill Gertz · Ilan Berman · Fred Fleitz
May 1st, 2014 ·
SEBASTIAN GORKA, Associate Dean at the National Defense University and Senior Editor at Breitbart.com:
- An off the record meeting with the Russian Ambassador
- Putin's way of war and strategic movements
- The disbandment of the NYPD's special unit charged with monitoring jihadist activity in New York
FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- The discovery of an email outlining how Susan Rice should present the Benghazi talking points
- Peace talks between Israel and Palestine being undermined by anti-Semitic tactics of U.S. administration
BILL ROGGIO, Long War Journal:
- Lack of groups in Syria that could be entrusted with American weapons
- Smaller rebel groups in Syria end up under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda
- Keeping American forces in Afghanistan and the chances of Taliban becoming the victor of the war
BILL GERTZ, Washington Free Beacon:
- The rejection of legal restrictions proposed by Russia on missile defense
- Open Skies Treaty and the controversial Russian desire to upgrade some of the sensors
- The news that another top official, General Flynn, in the Obama Administration is stepping down
Tags: Bill Roggio · Bill Gertz · Sebastian Gorka · Fred Fleitz