Episodes
Friday May 23, 2014
Tom Marino, Ilan Berman, Dan Coats, Bill Gertz, Fred Fleitz
Friday May 23, 2014
Friday May 23, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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