SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, Former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

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GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow, Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant:

• How does the U.S. government view the Taiwan-China conflict?

BEN WEINGARTEN, Federalist Senior Contributor, Senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, @bhweingarten

• The politicization and weaponization of the national security apparatus