Episodes
Friday Feb 27, 2015
Vicky Hartzler, Richard Holm, Rep. John Fleming, Amb. Roger Noriega
Friday Feb 27, 2015
Friday Feb 27, 2015
Rep. VICKY HARTZLER (MO-4), Chair of the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee:
- A refusal by Democratic Senators to vote on a motion to proceed with debate over the House bill to fund DHS
- National security concerns amid chances of closing the Guantanamo Bay holding facility
- What's not included in the President's proposed AUMF draft
RICHARD HOLM, former CIA Paris Chief of Station and Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Office:
- Holm’s account of surviving a reconnaissance plane crash along the 1960s Congo/Sudanese border despite suffering near-fatal burns
- Today’s intelligence mission of countering the global jihad
- The importance of American support to Egyptian President el-Sisi and of a greater reformation in Islam
- How intelligence capabilities were used to great effect by former CIA Director Bill Casey against Soviet Communism
Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), House Armed Services Committee member, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Congressional Long-Range Strike Caucus:
- Will a nuclear-armed Iran catalyze an arms race in the Middle East?
- Prime Minister Netanyahu’s grievances over the Iran nuclear talks
- Concerns Vladimir Putin is bringing about a new Iron Curtain with his own unique political and economic systems
- The atrophy of the U.S. nuclear deterrent
Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States:
- The Venezuelan regime’s increasingly brutal tactics amid economic woes and government-sponsored narco-trafficking
- Have the Cuban people actually benefitted from the normalization of relations between the Castro regime and United States?
- Potential Russian, Chinese, and North Korean responses should the U.S. vacate Guantanamo Bay
- The supposed Iranian/Argentinian “truth squad’ following the Alberto Nisman death
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