On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced five criminal charges against Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of trying to detonate a massive car bomb in New York City over the weekend. How much does this case change because Shahzad is a U.S. citizen? How much sensitive intelligence will be revealed in civilian court? What does this attempted attack teach us about the Pakistani Taliban? We ask Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
There is an international consensus that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, and we know North Korea has them. But as horrific as a nuclear strike would be on American soil, a nuclear attack accompanied by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) could cripple the nation if deployed in certain places. So what is an EMP? Are Iranians and others working on that as well? Why would it be worse than a nuke? And what can be done to prepare? We ask Dr. Peter Pry, president of EMPACT America – one of the foremost experts on the EMP threat.
This past weekend, multiple states were hammered by fierce thunderstorms than dumped record amounts of rain in many areas – including downtown Nashville, Tennessee. What are the flood waters doing now? How have some of Nashville’s famous landmarks been impacted? Why are severe water restrictions now in place and how are people responding to them? We ask Meg Buenting, longtime Radio America producer, who is now based in Nashville.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was back at the United Nations on Monday, defending his own nation’s nuclear program and accusing the United states and Israel of using their nuclear programs to bully the international community. But why did he draw the spotlight at a time when the most of the world is perfectly content to ignore the threat posed by his regime? Will the U.S. sell out Israel in an effort to stop Iranian nukes? Or has the U.S. run out of patience with the radicals in Tehran? We ask retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis.
Investigators are pursuing a possible foreign connection to the failed New York City bomb plot. Iran’s Ahmadinejad comes to the UN to scold the U.S. and Israel over nukes. BP and the government race to cap oil flow in Gulf of Mexico. Massive flooding devastates central Tennessee.
Oil giant BP and government officials at every level are working feverishly to minimize the devastation caused by the growing oil slick spawned by the the oil rig that exploded almost two weeks ago. Can the oil flow be stopped? How effective are efforts to contain the mess? How much of the coastline has been impacted? What is the economic toll? And how strong has the federal response been to this disaster? We ask Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise.
Over the weekend, a crude but massive bomb was found in the back of an SUV in New York City’s Times Square. So where do authorities start the hunt for the attacker and possibly others who are part of the plot? How do they separate solid leads from the flimsy ones? And what lessons have been learned by the way police responded to the threat? We ask retired FBI agent Bob Hamer, a former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now hitting the U.S. shoreline. President Obama calls for major cleanup effort and a full investigation of the accident. President Obama touts the latest GDP numbers. The Florida Senate race is a three-man race to the finish and is there a real push to make Puerto Rico our next state?
As state, federal and industry officials race to clean up a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some lawmakers in Washington say this disaster is proof that offshore exploration should not be part of our nation’s energy solutions. Do they have a point or are they just grandstanding? How will this impact the energy debate? And how safe is offshore drilling? We ask Patrick Creighton of the American Energy Alliance.
It’s been nearly six months since Maj. Nidal Hasan carried out his massacre of fellow Army service members at Ft. Hood, Texas. Investigations have failed to conclude that radical Islamic motives were behind the attack despite volumes of evidence and the testimony of eyewitnesses at the scene of the killings. So why won’t the government admit what fueled the killings? Why is it vital for the government to do so? How has this added to the anguish of the families of those killed and wounded? We ask Rep. John Carter, whose Congressional district contains Ft. Hood.
