January 13 - Senate Republicans Versus the White House at The Supreme Court; The Argentine Pope and his New Cardinals; "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know"

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the hearing in the Supreme Court in a case that has Senate Republicans challenging the White House over the president’s authority to make recess appointments.  Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center, joins us to discuss the 90 minutes of oral arguments in the Supreme Court that appeared to indicate a majority of justices were skeptical of the administration’s use of the recess appointment power that has been regularly and routinely exercised by Presidents of both parties.

Part 2

Then we speak with Eric LeCompte, the director of the Jubilee USA Network, a coalition of 75 religious, policy, labor, relief, environment and human rights organizations advocating for solutions to the international debt crises. He joins us to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Argentina’s case against a predatory hedge fund, known as a vulture fund, and its connection to the new Argentine pope who has spoken out against this form of “savage” capitalism and has just appointed 19 new cardinals, many from poor and indebted third world countries.

Part 3

Then finally, with major corporations like Target and Neiman Marcus having just been hacked, we will speak with Peter Singer, the author of a new book, “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know”. He is the director of the Center for 21^st Century Security and Intelligence and a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. We discuss how the Internet has become the new arena for communication, commerce and conflict, and the competing agendas of the NSA, criminal networks, the Chinese and U.S. militaries and the “Anonymous” hacker group.