Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

David Bellavia, John Wagner, Michael O'Hanlon, Kevin Coleman

DAVID BELLAVIA, a Silver Star recipient for his actions during the Second Battle of Fallujah:

•   An Iraq veteran's perspective on what the US is losing with the advance of ISIS

•   Problems with depending on drones to win the War on Terror

•   Putin or Iran: which is the US's worse enemy in the Middle East?

JOHN WAGNER, Department of the Army, CENTCOM

•   The information war fought by the U.S. in the early years of the Iraq War

•   The propaganda and social media expertise of ISIS as seen through their manipulation of popular media

•   The U.S. lacking the resources to influence Iraqi Sunni's due to the abrupt troop withdrawal in 2011

MICHAEL O'HANLON, Senior Fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution

•   The potential for a new Iraqi government- how can we get Sunnis in the provinces controlled by ISIS to buy in?

•   The need for a new regime in Iraq

•   The potential benefits of a Sunni autonomous region and the need for a unity government in Baghdad to facilitate its implementation

KEVIN COLEMAN, Cybersecurity expert at Project Times

•   How the United States should respond to Chinese cybercrime

•   The need to develop trust with the American people regarding domestic intelligence gathering

The importance of proactive cybersecurity measures

Andy McCarthy, Brad Patty, Luis Fleischman, Michael Rubin

Andy McCarthy, former federal prosecutor:

• Ahmed Abu Khatallah's first court appearance in the US, and the implications of his entry into the criminal justice system
• Boehner's decision to sue Obama--assessing alternative methods to reign in the use of executive power

BRAD PATTY: former member of the Iraq Advisory Task Force:

• Prospects for the emergence of, and the benefits of having, an independent Kurdistan in the Middle East
• Ways US support for an independent Kurdish state could affect the rest of Iraq

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of "Latin America in the Post Chavez Era":

• Analysis and status of a Venezuela sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress
• Human rights in Venezuela
• U.S. foreign policy role, strategy, and obligations in Latin America
• U.S. interests in and national security threats from the Venezuelan regime and its relationships with Iran, Hezbollah, and the FARC

MICHAEL RUBIN, a former Pentagon official and author of "Dancing With the Devil":

• The US intelligence failure of not detecting ISIS's plans for Iraq, and problems with the American response to the crisis
• What can the US do at this point to help Iraq?

Adam Kredo, Joe Davis, Gordon Chang, Jose Cardenas

With Adam Kredo, Joe Davis, Gordon Chang, Jose Cardenas. Jim Hanson guest hosts.

ADAM KREDO, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon:

• The US's surprise at ISIS' sudden rise in Iraq
• Is there anything at this point the US can do to turn the situation in Iraq around?

JOE DAVIS, Director of Public Affairs at Veterans of Foreign Wars:

• The future of the VA after the outing of Eric Shinseki
• An update on the situation of imprisoned Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi and what the public can do to help free him
• How some US veterans feel about the unraveling situation in Iraq

GORDON CHANG, of Forbes.com:

• China's participation in the RIMPAC naval exercises and what the Obama Administration thinks the future of this partnership can be
• Update on Chinese aggression in East Asia
• Irony of the US partnering with China in a cybersecurity working group, in light of the threats China poses to American intellectual property

JOSE CARDENAS, former USAID Acting Assistant for Latin America and the Caribbean:

• The humanitarian and national security crisis on the US's Southern Border
• The contribution of the "push" factor in unstable environments in Central America that have led to the immigration crisis
• Should the United States play a more active role in Latin America?