Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Fred Fleitz, Andrew Bostom, Patrick Christy, and Claudia Rosett

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Why wasn't Boko Haram designated a terrorist group sooner?
• Understanding the damage Glen Greenwald has done by publishing Edward Snowden's leaks—most of which had nothing to do with the privacy of American citizens
• China's blatant theft of U.S. Military secrets from American universities

Dr. ANDREW BOSTOM, author of "Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Islamic-Jew Hatred in Iran":

• Imprisonment of a Christian woman, along with her 20-month old son, in Sudan, charged with adultery under Shariah law; how the US can be doing more to help her and her American citizen son
• Shariah agenda being propagated within the American Muslim community

PATRICK CHRISTY, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Initiative:

• "Climate of fear in Venezuela" and the new level of oppression being seen under Nicolas Maduro
• How the U.S. can help ease tensions in Venezuela
• The Venezuelan regime's connections to Cuba, Iran, Russia, and China

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist in Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• North Korea's claims to be preparing for another nuclear test, and the inability of the international community to reign in NK's long-range missile program
• The tactics used by the Iranian government in their quest for a nuclear weapon

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Diana West, Mark Krikorian, Michael Rowan

Rep. PETE HOEKSTRA, Shillman Senior Fellow with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Former U.S. Congressman (Michigan 1993-2010)

• Domestic policing policies and controversy over NYPD investigation tactics
• Assessing the probability that any of the Syrian moderate groups would succeed if Assad loses power
• China's new expansionist attitude and the danger it poses to southeast Asia, and particularly Vietnam

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation's Character"

• National security failings of President Bill Clinton not raised during the impeachment hearings
• Legacies of the Clinton years, including a politicized INS and the "war on women"
• Flexible laws allowing individuals with links to terrorism to enter the United States and the public safety hazard it creates

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies and author of "How Obama is Transforming America through Immigration":

• Study showing the Obama administration's release of over 36,000 convicted criminals from detention/custom centers across the country
• Republican immigration reform wanting to address the issue of cheaper, imported labor in the technical science fields, hurting domestic workers

MICHAEL ROWAN, columnist at El Universal

• Punishments dealt out by the Maduro regime in response to recent protests in Venezuela
• Upcoming bi-partisan dialogue in Miami that will focus on how to properly sanction the Maduro regime
• How should the United States should handle the situation in Venezuela?

Sean McGurk, J. Christian Adams, Andy McCarthy, John Wohlstetter

SEAN McGURK, Global Managing Principal, Critical Infrastructure Protection Cybersecurity, RISK Team at Verizon:

• Credible threats to the nation's grid infrastructure and their cascading effects 

• The need to develop partnerships to combat cybercrime and harden the grid

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, founder of the Election Law Center and author of "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department":

• Department of Homeland Security's release of 36,000 criminal aliens because of pressure from left-wing organizations
• Republican hopes for winning over Hispanic voters, and debating the chances that an immigration reform bill will get passed through Congress in the near future
• Varying efforts of states' efforts to require voter ID and/or citizenship proof

ANDREW McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Hillary Clinton's fight while Secretary of State against efforts to designate Boko Haram a terrorist group, and her sudden turnaround

• Huma Abedin's influence on Mrs. Clinton's Middle East policies

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, of the Discovery Institute and author of "Sleepwalking with the Bomb":

• The makeup of the members on the Benghazi select committee, and what its findings may be 
• Putin's next moves, including going after Russia's Baltic neighbors, Estonia and Latvia 
• Iran's continuing nuclear ambitions

Rep. Peter Roskam, Elizabeth Harrington, Stephen Coughlin, Gordon Chang

Rep. PETER ROSKAM, House Chief Deputy Whip:

• P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran
• The economic boost to Iran due to an unraveling of economic sanctions
• A congressional bill that would force the Administration to report on Iranian compliance with the sixth-month interim agreement

ELIZABETH HARRINGTON, of the Washington free Beacon:

• The recent congressional sub-committee hearing on Electromagnetic Pulse (E.M.P.)
• A need for more public awareness and legislative focus on the topic of E.M.P.

STEPHEN COUGHLIN, author of “Catastrophic Failure”:

• Quranic basis of Shariah Law, recently implemented by the Sultan of Brunei
• Coughlin’s recent trip to Egypt and observations about the Muslim Brotherhood; Egyptian General el-Sisi’s presidential candidacy and animosity towards the Brotherhood
• Religious ideology motivating Boko Haram, the group responsible for the recent kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls

GORDON CHANG, columnist at Forbes.com and World Affairs Journal:

• A Chinese ship’s physical assault on a Vietnamese vessel, including the use of water cannons; understanding the historical tensions between China and Vietnam; the status of the US-Vietnamese relationship
• Chinese government’s recent attacks on underground Christianity; the potential destabilizing effects of Protestant religious fervor
• Upcoming IPO from Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce giant, which must use illegal tactics to avoid Chinese laws against internet commerce; possible outcomes for Americans who buy into what may be the largest IPO in US history

With Rep. Rob Wittman, Kay Daly, Bill Gertz, Fred Fleitz

Rep. ROB WITTMAN, of Virginia's 1st District and Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness:

• Sequestration's destructive impact on the US military's readiness
  
• Playing catchup with the 2014 NDAA through increased funding of the military's equipment and training programs
  
• Implications of the upcoming period where no US aircraft carrier will be in the Western Pacific because of short supply

KAY DALY, of Daly and Associates:

• Her brother's treatment at the VA Hospital
  
• The problems with the VA's culture that have led to multiple cases of medical malpractice
  
• The role unions have played in the VA's culture

BILL Gertz, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• China's increased aggression in the South China Sea, and its growing naval assets and force projection capabilities
  
• Russia's recent "massive nuclear forces" military exercise 

FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy:

• Using the upcoming House select committee on Benghazi to prevent the Obama Administration from playing a "jurisdiction game"
  
• Hillary Clinton's refusal to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization when Secretary of State, and the Administration's broader hesitation to use the word "terrorist"
  
• Putin's claims to be pulling troops back from the Ukrainian border
  
• Security implications of a new bill limiting the NSA's metadata collection program

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Bill Roggio, Caitlin Poling, Dan Bongino

Representative ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Chair Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• Cuba's protests against the State Department's designation of it as a "state sponsor of terrorism"
• Human rights abuses in Cuba
• Cuban influence campaigns in Venezuela
• Failing US efforts to create an Israeli-Palestinian deal

BILL ROGGIO, Editor of the Long War Journal:

• Recent counter-terrorism military offensives within Yemen
• The historical backstory of Boko Haram and its place in the global jihadist movement

CAITLIN POLING, Director of Government Relations at the Foreign Policy Initiative

• Factors that made Boko Haram's swift rise to prominence possible, and its status as an unofficial affiliate of Al Qaeda
• Possible tactical and strategical approaches to fighting Boko Haram
• Logistical problems of rescuing the nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian girls, many hidden in the Sambisa Forest--a wildlife preserve now serving as Boko Haram's safe haven

DAN BONGINO, former Secret Service agent and author of "Life Inside the Bubble":

• Government failures before, during, and after the Benghazi attack on 9/11/12
• Possible questions to be asked in the select committee on Benghazi

Diana West, Jerry Boykin, Andrew McCarthy, Jim Hanson

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation's Character":

• State Department's 2014 country report on terror
• The influence of inaccurate historical data on pop culture; history of U.S. cold war counter intelligence

Lt. Gen. JERRY BOYKIN, original Delta Force member:

• Bipartisan select committee on Benghazi—why does Benghazi matter, and how will the House Select Committee differ from previous hearings on the topic?
  
• What was America purpose in Libya prior to the Benghazi attack?
  
• Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria
  

ANDY MCCARTHY, former federal prosecutor and author of "Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy":

• The policy considerations behind the Benghazigate coverup and US involvement in the Libyan civil war
  
• Legal benefits of investigating Benghazi in a select committee, versus a typical congressional standing committee
  
• Obama's behavior and claims that Al Qaeda was "on the path to defeat" in the immediate days following the Benghazi attack

JIM HANSON, former Army Green Beret weapons sergeant:

• Critiquing President Obama's past decision not to install missile defense systems in Eastern Europe; in light of new calls for a permanent NATO troop presence there
  
• CIA and US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the deadly implications of Obama's decision to surge without an intent to win
  
• Holding the VA leadership accountable for its failures
  
• New "smart rifle" technology

Andy Bostom

Part 1:

• Iranian President Rouhani's role in the Khomeini Revolution that restored shariah law to Iran, and which created a constitution calling for international jihad
  
• What available polling data suggests about the likelihood that Iranians would vote against shariah law in a truly free election
  
• The characteristics of Islam in Iran

Part 2:

• Distinguishing between the Shia and Sunni views on jihad
• Iran's engagement in civilization jihad
• Shariah law versus secular, "western" thought
• Polling data showing that the majority of Muslims worldwide want shariah law

Part 3:

• The threats Iran and radical Islam pose to Israel
• Interpretations of the Quran that have led to anti-Semitic, anti Zionist sentiments in Iran
  
• Unintentional legitimization of Iran's nuclear program in the P5 + 1 agreement

Part 4:

• The mistakes the US made in Iraq and Afghanistan by enshrining shariah as an accepted part of their societies
• Nuclear negotiations with Iran, and Iran's spurious claims that an energy shortage necessitates a nuclear energy program
• Debate over the religious or cultural origins of female genital mutilation

Michael Rubin, Roger Noriega, Christian Whiton, Gordon Chang

MICHAEL RUBIN, author of "Dancing with the Devil":

• Continued negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program, and the financial freedom Iran is gaining from the weakening of sanctions
• Reasons behind the crumbling Israeli and Palestinian peace talks 
• The formation of a new unity government between Fatah, Hamas and PLO
• New information suggesting Turkey is not a free state after all 

ROGER NORIEGA, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• Cuban influence in Venezuela's Maduro regime
• Russian influence throughout Latin America
• The Panamanian and Brazilian presidential elections
• Details on the Chevron vs. Equador fight

CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principle at D.C. International Advisory and author of Smart Power:

• State of play in Ukraine: Russian special forces/ provocateurs and NATO assessment
• German/ Russian and German/ US relations
• Defense posture and spending of European nations
• Benghazi Select Committee
• US role in South Sudan

GORDON CHANG, of Forbes.com:

• North Korean ICBM capabilities
• Beating the projected 2017 deployment date for deploying anti-missile destroyers to the Pacific
• China's response to the enhanced cooperation agreement between the United States and the Philippines

Sebastian Gorka, Fred Fleitz, Bill Roggio, Bill Gertz

SEBASTIAN GORKA, Associate Dean at the National Defense University and Senior Editor at Breitbart.com:

• An off the record meeting with the Russian Ambassador
• Putin's way of war and strategic movements
• The disbandment of the NYPD's special unit charged with monitoring jihadist activity in New York

FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• The discovery of an email outlining how Susan Rice should present the Benghazi talking points
• Peace talks between Israel and Palestine being undermined by anti-Semitic tactics of U.S. administration

BILL ROGGIO, Long War Journal:

• Lack of groups in Syria that could be entrusted with American weapons
• Smaller rebel groups in Syria end up under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda
• Keeping American forces in Afghanistan and the chances of Taliban becoming the victor of the war

BILL GERTZ, Washington Free Beacon:

• The rejection of legal restrictions proposed by Russia on missile defense
• Open Skies Treaty and the controversial Russian desire to upgrade some of the sensors
• The news that another top official, General Flynn, in the Obama Administration is stepping down