Reigning In Obama’s Use of Executive Power

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With Andy McCarthy, Brad Patty, Luis Fleischman, Michael Rubin. Jim Hanson guest hosts.

Andy McCarthy, former federal prosecutor

• Ahmed Abu Khatallah’s first court appearance in the US, and the implications of his entry into the criminal justice system
• Boehner’s decision to sue Obama–assessing alternative methods to reign in the use of executive power

BRAD PATTY: former member of the Iraq Advisory Task Force:

• Prospects for the emergence of, and the benefits of having, an independent Kurdistan in the Middle East
• Ways US support for an independent Kurdish state could affect the rest of Iraq

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of “Latin America in the Post Chavez Era”:

• Analysis and status of a Venezuela sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress
• Human rights in Venezuela
• U.S. foreign policy role, strategy, and obligations in Latin America
• U.S. interests in and national security threats from the Venezuelan regime and its relationships with Iran, Hezbollah, and the FARC

MICHAEL RUBIN, a former Pentagon official and author of “Dancing With the Devil”:

• The US intelligence failure of not detecting ISIS’s plans for Iraq, and problems with the American response to the crisis
• What can the US do at this point to help Iraq?