September 7- Enlisting the Sunni Tribes to Fight the Islamic State; A New Book on the Benghazi Attack that Killed the U.S. Ambassador; Backlash to Obama’s Delay of Executive Action on Immigration Reform

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the president’s announcement scheduled for Wednesday that he will go on the offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and speak with a veteran CIA officer who ran CIA operations in the Kurdish north of Iraq between the two wars against Saddam Hussein. Robert Baer, who is now an Intelligence analyst for CNN and is the author of the best-sellers “Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude” and “The Devil We Know: Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower”, joins us to discuss permission from Iran’s Supreme Leader for Iran to work with the U.S. to combat the Islamic State as well as why the well-armed Saudis next door to Iraq are not offering to help in the regional strategy to confront ISIL.

Part 2

Then we examine charges in a new book titled “13 Hours” by five former Special Forces contractors working for the CIA in Libya, who accuse the CIA station chief of preventing their attempt to rescue Ambassador Stevens from the diplomatic residence in Benghazi that was under attack on the anniversary of 9/11. Author, filmmaker, journalist and explorer Robert Young Pelton, the author of “Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror” and a series of articles at vice.com “Finding Bergdahl”, joins us to discuss the role of contractors protecting CIA and State Department personnel in conflict zones, and whether this new book will feed the right wing Benghazi scandal machine or put to rest the tragedy in Benghazi that has become fevered political fiction reverberating in the Fox News echo chamber, designed to discredit Hillary Clinton.

Part 3