Daniel Gallington, Charles Brooks, Clare Lopez, Roger Noriega

DANIEL GALLINGTON, former bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Putin's KGB tactics and Russia's violation of weapons treaties
• Why arms treaties historically favored Russia/USSR
• Chinese pursuit of a "space control capacity"
• Increasingly political nature of the Congressional intelligence committees, and the Senate Intel Democratic Staff's report on enhanced interrogation techniques
• Concerns about the legal closeness of enhanced interrogation to torture

CHARLES BROOKS, Vice President and Client Executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox:

• Cyber-security's status as one of the most pressing concerns for the federal government, and DHS especially
• An overview of the newly discovered Heartbleed bug and various other forms of vulnerabilities that exist within cyberspace
• The soft target nature of social network sites and the steps that one can take to harden their personal information against cyber-attacks

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

• Brandeis University's rescinding of an honorary doctorate invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a prominent critic of Islam, after protests
• NYPD's decision to disband its covert unit tasked with "human terrain mapping" in local mosques
• The Islamic Society of North America's "Safe Spaces Initiative," and understanding the historical use of mosques as centers of command and control for jihad
• Problem with little to no mention of the Tsarnaev brothers or jihad on Boston Bombings anniversary

RORGER NORIEGA, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• U.N. report labeling Latin America as the most dangerous region in the world
• Recent negotations in Colombia between the government and a regional narco-trafficking organization known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
• The tie between widespread criminality and narco-trafficking to a regional increase in immigration to the United States
• The latest dialogue in Venezuela between government offices and opposition representatives