Catherine Herridge, Thomas Donnelly, Bill Gertz

Is Eric Holder’s Justice Department calling for the shortened sentence for an American Muslim activist and staunch supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah? Frank informs on the alarming AP report in which federal prosecutors are asking for Abdurahman Alamoudi’s 23-year sentence for plotting to assassinate King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to be reduced. Then, Fox News Foreign Correspondent Catherine Herridge, author of the new book The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits, joins Frank to bring us up to date on the war on terror, both at home with the indictment of Emerson Winfield Begolly, and abroad with the bombings in Mumbai. Herridge details the indictment of Begolly, who was found using the Internet as a recruiting tool to wage terrorist attacks in the U.S., and also a new Government Accountability Office Report showing gaping holes in intelligence and passport security in countries like Pakistan and Kenya. Next, Thomas Donnelly, of the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the defense cuts the debt ceiling debate may bring. Donnelly, Director of the Center for Defense Studies, says cuts ranging from $500 billion to $1 trillion over ten years could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” as these would follow a generation of slicing into the defense budget. Finally, Bill Gertz, details what he is hearing from “Inside the Ring” on the Pentagon’s strategy for cyber warfare, or lack thereof. The unclassified strategy for cyber warfare has just been released, but there’s a problem: a failure to mention cyber warfare. The plan is merely another means for appeasement, Gertz argues, as he hopes the unreleased classified version includes a stronger strategy that will keep us secure.