In the New Age of Cyber Warfare, Electric Grid is Tempting Target

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With Claudia Rosett, Amb. Roger Noriega, Stewart Baker, Gordon Chang

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• More questions than answers left after the framework agreement with Iran
• Concerns over the international community’s ability to verify the Iranian nuclear program going forward
• Are U.S. diplomats giving a sales pitch on Tehran’s nuclear program to the rest of the world?
• How Iranian crude oil tankers have avoided sanctions enforcement

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• Push and pull factors resulting in the influx of Central American migrants to the U.S.
• Will Cuba be removed from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism?
• Venezuela leads the fight against President Obama’s foreign policy in Latin America
• Reasons why the Maduro government is refusing to engage diplomatically with the West

STEWART BAKER, Former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Dept. of Homeland Security and Former General Counsel of the NSA:

• Does the electric grid face a catch-22 between reliability and security?
• Debunking the myth of untraceable hackers
• Evidence of an initial period of vulnerability for Hillary Clinton’s private email server

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Beijing’s attempt to internationalize the renminbi as a reserve currency to eventually replace the U.S. dollar
• Xi Jinping is aligning with the Chinese military to attack the historic notion of factionalism in China
• Signs that a potential bond default is at hand in the People’s Republic of China
• Fissures in China’s semi-command economy