Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Michael Ledeen, John Wagner, John Wohlstetter, Noah Pollak

MICHAEL LEDEEN, Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Status update on the nuclear talks with Iran
• Uncovering the extent of Iran's global influence
• What the United States can do in response to Iran's rising regional power
• Arguing the need for a global response to a global war

JOHN WAGNER, former member of the CENTCOM task force that searched for Bowe Bergdahl:

• Explanation of why the Pentagon has returned Bowe Bergdahl to active duty
• Options for the Army as it investigates Bergdahl's disappearance
• What are the potential legal and/or punitive outcomes for Bergdahl?

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute:

• Hamas' rejection of the Egyptian-proposed cease-fire and the continuing conflict in the Gaza Strip
• Societal differences between the Palestinian and Israeli populations
• Could Israel and the Fatah government in the West Bank unify to combat Hamas in the Gaza Strip?

NOAH POLLAK, of The Weekly Standard:

• Criticism of Hamas' tactics of placing critical terrorist infrastructure, leaders, and weapons in densely-populated civilians areas within Gaza
• Hamas' use of UN and foreign aid to carry out its civil responsibilities to the citizens of Gaza
• Israel's inability to adopt an isolationist foreign policy and the need for the international community to rally against state sponsors of terrorism

Bill Cowan, Rebeccah Heinrichs, Daniel Silva, Andy McCarthy

BILL COWAN, former member of the Pentagon’s Intelligence Support Activity:

• The role the Syrian conflict played in helping the Islamic State emerge from al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Analyzing the extent of Iranian influence within Iraq’s government
• Intelligence and military options for the United States in Iraq
• The national security threat posed by unknown people crossing the US’s southern border

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, a nuclear deterrence and missile defense expert who formerly managed the Congressional Missile Defense Caucus:

• Problems within the U.S. Air Force missile crews responsible for maintenance and operations of the land-based leg of the US strategic triad
• Failures to modernize U.S. nuclear forces and Ohio-class nuclear submarines
• Solutions for improving the U.S. missile defense systems

DANIEL SILVA, #1 New York Times best selling author:

• Origins of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge
• The 14th anniversary of the Two State Solution’s rejection by Yasser Arafat
• Silva’s new New York Times best seller, “The Heist”

ANDY McCARTHY, author of “Faithless Execution: Making the Case for the Impeachment of Barack Obama”:

• Government inaction that helped lead to the current immigration crisis
• Ways the Cloward-Piven Social Welfare Theory may be at work in U.S. immigration policy
• The systemic problems facing the Obama administration

Jason Black, Roger Noriega, Rep. John Fleming, Gordon Chang

JASON BLACK, grid expert at Battelle Memorial Institute:

• The vulnerabilities to and challenges of protecting the electrical grid
• Steps that comprise a "holistic approach" to strengthening the security of the grid

ROGER NORIEGA, American Enterprise Institute:

• Electrical grid incidents in Mexico and Arizona
• How the Guatemalan and Mexican governments have played a role in the invasion of the southern U.S. border
• Brazil's embarrassing loss in the World Cup and how it's contributing to political upheaval in the country
• The current BRIC summit in Brazil and the challenges these economies face

Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), member of the House Armed Services Committee and former U.S. Navy Medical Officer: 

• Hamas rocket attacks on Israel
• The Caliphate newly established by the Islamic State
• 1 Trillion in cuts to U.S. defense capability in the past five years
• Missile defense and nuclear posture 

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com:

• A surprising US agreement to collaborate with China on smart grid technology 
• Implications of Chinese giant Alibaba's initial public offering for U.S. investors
• Evidence of internal strife within the Chinese government
  

Rep. Luke Messer, Lenny Ben-David, Bill Gertz, Fred Gedrich

Rep. LUKE MESSER, Indiana's 6th District:

• Japan's changing defense policy and the current US-Japanese relationship
• Proposed IPO move to the U.S. Market by Alibaba, a company with known ties to the Chinese government
• Israeli-American relations in light of the escalating violence between Israel and Hamas

LENNY BEN-DAVID, former Deputy Chief of Mission for Israel's embassy in Washington, DC:

• Hamas's decision to order civilians to serve as human shields on houses identified as targets for Israeli air strikes
• Evaluating the wisdom of relinquishing Gaza to the Palestinians
• Questioning the notion that Fatah can be a viable partner for peace
• The prospect for the use of ground forces to neutralize threats to Israel in Gaza

BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Free Beacon and Washington Times:

• Rundown on two new parts to the Chinese military build up: Scramjet technology and a next generation nuclear attack submarine
• Comments made by a US official indicating that the Chinese will be given access to US electric infrastructure
• US policy towards Iraq and the Islamic State

FRED GEDRICH, foreign policy and national security analyst:

• Threats of ballistic missiles to America's homeland security
• The successes and failures of missile defense in the U.S.
• Credible threats of an EMP attack against the U.S.

Fred Fleitz, Joshua Muravchik, Bill Roggio

FRED FLEITZ, fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• New documents leaked by Edward Snowden detailing NSA and FBI surveillance practices
• Misleading claims made by Glen Greenwald about the NSA's spying targets in the American Muslim community
• The Council on American Islamic Relations' connections to Hamas

JOSHUA MURAVCHIK, author of "Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel":

• Influence of the works of Columbia University Professor Edward Said on the international attitude towards the US-Palestinian conflict
• The current threat Hamas poses to Israel
• State of the Obama Administration's relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel
• Material and intellectual trends in the second half of the 20th century that transformed international attitudes towards Israel
• The role the United Nations has played in legitimizing the demonization of Israel

BILL ROGGIO, editor of the Long War Journal:

• ISIS and the shifting alliances in Syria and Iraq
• Internal conflict within Al-Qaeda
• The Iranian presence in Iraq

Randy Weber, Diana West, Stuart Poole-Robb, Ace Lyons

REPRESENTATIVE RANDY WEBER, Texas’s 14th District

• The porousness of the southern border serving as a magnet for human trafficking
• Implications of providing aid to the illegal immigrants crossing the border: where does it end?
• Details of Rep. Weber’s new bill to hold Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador accountable for the surge of illegal immigrants crossing the US's southern border
• Public health concerns over the thousands of illegal aliens entering the US without medical examinations

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

• President Obama's request for nearly four billion dollars to stem the waves of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border
  
• The creation of a future Democratic voting base in traditionally conservative states along the border thanks to lax immigration enforcement
• Similarities in crises facing the United States and Israel

STUART POOLE-ROBB, former MI6 and UK military intelligence officer:

• A look at Dragonfly, the foreign cyber-attack group that has spread malware to spy on—and potentially sabotage—US and EU energy companies
• Dangers of cyber-terror to the electric grid

Admiral JAMES "ACE" LYONS, Former Commander and Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Head of the Center for Security Policy's Military Committee:

• Iran's attempts to conceal its nuclear facilities from international inspectors, as the talks approach their deadline
• Evidence for Iranian involvement in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
• Is a Iranian/U.S. alliance wise to help defend Iraq against the Islamic State?

Gordon Chang, Robin Simcox, Caroline Glick, Andy McCarthy

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com:

• Chinese internet giant Ali Baba's plans to enter the US capital markets
• China's strategy for South Korea
• Chinese-Taiwanese relations

ROBIN SIMCOX, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society:

• Background of ISIS leader Al Baghdadi and the current state of the newly-declared Caliphate
• Reasons why ISIS is able to hold large amounts of territory while still having a relatively small fighting force
• The fight between Al Qaeda and ISIS, and what notable Jihadi clerics in the region think about the group
• Ways the threat in Iraq may spread to the West

CAROLINE GLICK, author of "The Israeli Solution":

• Fatah's incitement of violence towards Israelis in response to the murder of a Palestinian teen
• Why the Obama administration's support for the newly formed Fatah-Hamas Unity Government is in breach of US law
• Ways the US can support Israel

ANDY MCCARTHY, author of "Faithless Execution":

• Insights on the trial of recently caught Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khattalah
• Lawlessness in the Obama Administration
• Reasons that members of the Executive Branch could be impeached for their actions

Kenneth Timmerman

Kenneth Timmerman author of "Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi":

Part 1:

• The Iranian presence in Benghazi during the Embassy attacks 
• Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian spy chief who helped plan the Benghazi attack
• The weapons pipeline from Libya to Syria

Part 2:

• A shipment of stinger missiles that went missing within Libya- where did they end up?
• Iran's dual motivations for assisting the attack on the US facility in Benghazi
• The failure of multiple administrations to punish Iran for its role in American deaths in Iraq and elsewhere- has this encouraged further hostile acts?

Part 3:

• Recent negotiations as seen through the lens of the Iranian Regime
• The inherent risks in supporting the MEK, an Iranian opposition group
• Hilary Clinton's decisions analyzed in the days just after the September 11, 2012 Benghazi U.S. consulate attack

Part 4:

• Who ordered the stand down during the Benghazi attacks that grounded a rescue mission?
• Strategic interests shifting US focus away from Iraq

Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin

Part One:

• Finding the link between Shariah, jihad, and the Caliphate

Part Two:

• Jihadists’ use of influence operations in the West
• The importance of “knowing your enemy” in war
• A new computer worm with suspected Russian-ties that has infected US energy infrastructure

Part Three:

• Chinese military modernization and top military power aspirations
• A look at the dramatic decrease in democratic states in Latin America over the last 30 years
• Concern over potential terrorists entering the US alongside the surge of minor illegal immigrants

Part Four:

• Reasons behind the US’s failure to secure the southern border
• Assessment of the current state and trajectory of the United States military

John Hannah, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, and Bill Gertz

JOHN HANNAH, Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney:

• Examining the likelihood of current negotiations actually curbing Iranian nuclear ambitions
  
• Prospect of the Obama Administration and Iran conducting a constructive joint military action against the Islamic State
  
• An argument that in the current Iraqi sectarian crisis, President Obama must assert his leverage against Iraqi and regional leaders

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

• Interpreting the failure to anticipate ISIS' rise as a policy, rather than intelligence, problem
  
• Concerns about Obama's request for $500 million to train "moderate" Syrian rebels
  
• Incoherence in the allies chosen by the United States on either side of the Iraq-Syria border
  
• The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's findings regarding foreign electronic surveillance

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, former CIA and House Armed Services Committee Staff Member:

• The Electric Infrastructure Security Council's London Conference on threats to electrical grid capabilities
  
• Physical attacks in San Jose, C.A., Nogales, A.Z., Mexico, and Yemen that show serious vulnerabilities of electric grids
  
• Cyber-war against U.S./European electrical grids from the new 'Dragon Fly' computer worm
  
• What are steps the U.S. can take to defend herself from the threats of tomorrow?

BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon:

• Predictions that the dismissal of a high-ranking general from the Communist Party may lead to further instability in the Chinese Government
  
• Chinese military enhancement in the form of a new attack submarine and cyber-intelligence center
  
• Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel meets with military Chiefs of Staff to combat threat from newly-created Islamic State