JOHN HANNAH, Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney:
- Examining the likelihood of current negotiations actually curbing Iranian nuclear ambitions
- Prospect of the Obama Administration and Iran conducting a constructive joint military action against the Islamic State
- An argument that in the current Iraqi sectarian crisis, President Obama must assert his leverage against Iraqi and regional leaders
FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
- Interpreting the failure to anticipate ISIS' rise as a policy, rather than intelligence, problem
- Concerns about Obama's request for $500 million to train "moderate" Syrian rebels
- Incoherence in the allies chosen by the United States on either side of the Iraq-Syria border
- The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's findings regarding foreign electronic surveillance
Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, former CIA and House Armed Services Committee Staff Member:
- The Electric Infrastructure Security Council's London Conference on threats to electrical grid capabilities
- Physical attacks in San Jose, C.A., Nogales, A.Z., Mexico, and Yemen that show serious vulnerabilities of electric grids
- Cyber-war against U.S./European electrical grids from the new 'Dragon Fly' computer worm
- What are steps the U.S. can take to defend herself from the threats of tomorrow?
BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon:
- Predictions that the dismissal of a high-ranking general from the Communist Party may lead to further instability in the Chinese Government
- Chinese military enhancement in the form of a new attack submarine and cyber-intelligence center
- Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel meets with military Chiefs of Staff to combat threat from newly-created Islamic State