Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses US-Iran negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, specifically on the number and output of uranium enrichment centrifuges.

Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the terrorism risk that comes with unconditional US support for Israel, and why the media refuses to acknowledge the link.

McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discusses his article "Expansion of 'secret' [CIA] facility in Iraq suggests closer U.S.-Kurd ties;" and why the Obama administration has no good options for dealing with the Islamic State, faltering Maliki government, and Sunni insurgency in Iraq.

Jason Ditz, editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the Palestinian victims of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and the obstacles preventing an Iranian nuclear agreement.

Dahr Jamail, an investigative journalist and author, discusses the rapidly disintegrating Iraqi government; the return to 2006-7 levels of sectarian violence; and why there's no worthwhile replacement for Prime Minister Maliki.

Bob McCarty, author of The Clapper Memo, discusses the new Oklahoma City bombing trial that is due to the persistent efforts of Jesse Trentadue (brother of Kenneth Trentadue) who has been fighting for years to get video footage from the FBI.

Christian Stork, Assistant Editor and Staff Writer for WhoWhatWhy.com, discusses the trumped-up prosecution of journalist Barrett Brown for reporting on the Anonymous hacking of Stratfor's data systems.

Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, discusses the NSA and FBI targeting of Muslim American leaders based on their civil rights, legal, and political work - not because they were suspected of actual crimes.

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the unprecedented expulsion of the CIA's Berlin station chief and why Senator Rand Paul is unfit to lead (especially in foreign policy).

Rebecca Gordon, author of Mainstreaming Torture, discusses why we're Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World; the failure to hold anyone responsible for torture since 9/11; and why torture has much more to do with extracting false confessions than finding "ticking time bombs."