Episodes
Monday Sep 09, 2013
Norman Podhoretz, John Yoo, James Acton, Gordon Chang
Monday Sep 09, 2013
Monday Sep 09, 2013
NORMAN PODHORETZ explains his article in today's Wall Street Journal, outlining how President Obama is subordinating the U.S. to the dictates of the international community, where he says it has no interests as a nation.
JAMES ACTON, a senior associate of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, connects lessons learned from a failed attempt to rid the world of chemical weapons to nuclear disarmament, as well as argues the position of an international agreement of nuclear weapons reduction.
JOHN YOO, former Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, analyzes the process for Congressional approval of a strike on Syria, focusing specifically on the constitutional implications.
GORDON CHANG talks about his piece in the New York Times, giving a backdrop to specific incidents in China recently.
Wednesday Feb 06, 2013
Adam Kredo, Suzanne Scholte, Cliff Kincaid, John Yoo
Wednesday Feb 06, 2013
Wednesday Feb 06, 2013
With Adam Kredo, Suzanne Scholte, Cliff Kincaid, and John Yoo. Senior writer from the Washington Free Beacon, ADAM KREDO, critiques Chuck Hagel's incompetent Senate performance, and reports on Hagel's refusal to produce financial documents for over 200 past speeches. Kredo also predicts that John Brennan will be severely questioned regarding the recently leaked memo on drone warfare. SUZANNE SCHOLTE, the president of the Defense Forum Foundation, reports that the North Korea regime is preparing for its own demise as regime leaders scramble for cash and build reservoirs to flood illegal prisoner of war camps. Director of the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism, CLIFF KINCAID, exposes the truth behind the blatantly illegal purchase of Current TV by Al Jazeera, a news source owned by a state that sponsors terrorism, and tells what is being done to stop this illegal transaction. JOHN YOO, law professor at UC Berkley, illuminates the recently leaked memo concerning the ethics behind drone killings, and discusses the difference between due process laws that apply to citizens at home and the rules of war. He connects this difference back to how the Obama administration prefers drone strike killings to capturing and interrogating terrorists in order to avoid the Guantanamo Bay issues that arise.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012
Peter Pham, John Yoo, David Limbaugh, Jim Hanson
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012
With Peter Pham, John Yoo, David Limbaugh, and Jim Hanson
· PETER PHAM from the Atlantic Council provides insight into China’s interests in Africa for natural resources, in addition to the current conflicts in Somalia and Nigeria.
Ethiopia Says Troops to Stay Longer in Somalia
· JOHN YOO, law professor at UC Berkeley, discusses the Arizona Supreme Court decision and Obama’s executive overreach.
· Lawyer and author DAVID LIMBAUGH highlights the major points of his new book The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic. One of his subjects includes how the Obama administration has repeatedly, almost systematically, violated the Constitution to achieve its goals.
The Great Destroyer: Barak Obama's War on the Republic
· Absio Corp’s JIM HANSON’s theme this week is “political correctness” in the military. He offers his opinion on topics such as gay pride at the Pentagon, the place of women in Ranger School, and the FBI investigating violent extremism in the armed forces.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012
Friday Sep 16, 2011
Jeff Eby, KT McFarland, John Yoo, Bill Gertz
Friday Sep 16, 2011
Friday Sep 16, 2011
Throughout history there have been game changers in war, from artillery in WWI to aircraft carriers in WW II. During Operation Iraqi Freedom it was the advanced combat optical gun sight that proved revolutionary. Today on Secure Freedom Radio Jeff Eby joins Frank to discuss this important technology that his company manufactured. Eby, an Advanced Technology Programs Manager at Trijicon, an American Defense Manufacturer, explains how the magnified optics enabled our fighters to survey the bad guys from the good. In Iraq, like Vietnam and Somalia before it, the enemy cloaks itself within civilian society, and the new gun sight was crucial to defeating the enemy without injuring civilians who we needed on our side. Eby, who spent 29 years as an Infantryman, also discusses military budget cuts and the importance of maintaining sufficient personnel in all levels of conflict, in areas of the world where merely our presence maintains the peace. Then, KT McFarland, national security expert, columnist and commentator joins Frank to assess our security 10 years since 9/11. 10 years ago, McFarland was in lower Manhattan as she watched the towers fall. And now, the Fox News National Security Analyst and host of DefCon-3, is proud that while we were rebuilding, “Osama Bin Laden died an old man, wearing dirty clothes in a tiny windowless room in Pakistan watching video reels of himself.” McFarland explains the evolution of the War on Terror, which has transformed from Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda 1.0, to worldwide cells 2.0 and now al-Qaeda’s domestic 3.0 lone wolves. She also explains how the Muslim Brotherhood, the “mother ship” of al-Qaeda, is trying to take advantage of the Arab Spring, “to win through the ballot box what they weren’t able to win militarily.” She finally adds her comments on the brilliant work of the NYPD in keeping her city safe, and how a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State will be “a match thrown into a room full of gasoline” for the nations surrounding Israel. Next, Frank welcomes back John Yoo, Professor of Law at University of California, Berkley, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice and Co-editor for the new book Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security, a retrospective from the greatest minds in national security on the balance between security and civil liberties after 9/11. Yoo defends the record of the Bush Administration of no attacks, and attributes this fact to the methods and policies he helped put in place, including Guantanamo Bay and warrantless wire tapping. He explains the difference between approaching 9/11 as an act of war rather than a criminal act, and explains how the Obama Administration, although reluctantly, has continued many of the same war policies, with one important distinction. “No high ranking terrorist has been captured in two years,” says Yoo, who fears with an administration that would rather kill terrorists than deal with political backlash, we risk losing “the greatest source to our successes in the War on Terror,” namely intelligence. Yoo also comments on the “deeper problem, the ideological fight” here at home, and how in “fighting on the frontier of ideas” we must “stop the spread of ideologies that are behind the people that want to attack us.” Finally, Bill Gertz, gives us our weekly update from “Inside the Ring,” with the breaking news that the Administration has opted against selling 66 new F-16s to Taiwan amid intense bipartisan pressure from Congress to sell these new jets. Gertz remarks this is a prime example of “weakness is provocative,” as pro-China officials in White House successfully manipulated assessments by the intelligence community to paint the picture that the deal would give Taiwan a greater offensive ability. The news comes just as the Pentagon’s annual report shows an alarming military buildup in China. Gertz also explains a recent report from Bob Woodward, that government officials thwarted the Bush Administration from taking military action against a secret nuclear facility in Syria. Had the Israelis not acted in 2007, Gertz asserts, “we might have a very advanced nuclear program in Syria.” “We see a government that is out of control,” says Gertz, not only economically but in national security as well. He also discusses the vulnerabilities in cyber warfare that the new commander of Cyber Command, Gen. Keith Alexander, recently revealed.