Episodes
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Jen Weedon, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Bill Roggio, Bill Gertz
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
JEN WEEDON, FireEye Inc. Threat Intelligence Manager:
- The Russian state-sponsored cyber operation known as APT28
- Russian regional interests seen in the Black Energy malware campaign
- Cyber vulnerabilities of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure
- The problem of attribution in deterring such threats
MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, executive director of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC:
- Cuba's enabling of a Venezuelan narco-state
- Details of the North Korean vessel intercepted last summer in the Panama Canal carrying undeclared weapons from Cuba
- Contradictions in UN policy towards the Castro regime
- Predictions on U.S. policy towards Latin America in the upcoming lame duck session
BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of The Long War Journal:
- Will the Administration push for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force despite its incoherent strategy on the Islamic State?
- Worrisome U.S. pandering to Tehran
- Drone strikes in Afghanistan: "tactical successes of a strategic failure"
- Reports that President Obama intends to fulfill his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay
BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:
- Increased Kremlin adventurism following the sham elections of pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine
- Europe being held hostage over Russian natural gas
- National Security Agency Director Mike Roger’s worrisome speech on cyber deterrence
- Using the power of the purse to counter an appeasement-oriented White House foreign policy
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