Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Gov. Bobby Jindal, Andrew C. McCarthy, Michael Mukasey, Newt Gingrich, Sen. Ted Cruz

Gov. BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of Louisiana, Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association:

• The need for Muslim community leaders to denounce acts of violent jihad
• Insistence on assimilation and integration of immigrants to the West
• Reinstating American exceptionalism

ANDREW C. McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Pitfalls of using the civilian justice system in accordance with U.S. counterterrorism policy
• How 9/11 militarized the American response to jihadism
• The Blind Sheikh's cultural mastery of shariah

MICHAEL MUKASEY, former Attorney General of the United States:

• The "war of words" when describing radical and political Islam
• Widespread acceptance of Shariah law throughout the Middle East by both the masses and outside governing bodies
• Examples of official Western endorsement of those who promote the global jihad
• Addressing an ideology that seeks to destroy all other ways of life

NEWT GINGRICH, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives:

• Will Hillary Clinton part ways with the Obama national security doctrine if elected president?
• Revamping the Departments of State, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and the congressional committees to combat today’s threats

Sen. TED CRUZ, United States Senator for Texas:

• Concerning yet underreported remarks on free speech made by President Obama last week
• The absurdity of comparing modern-day Islamist atrocities to the 2nd millennium's Crusades
• Thoughts on the AUMF proposal
• The status of the US-Kurdish relationship

Reza Kahlili

PART ONE:

REZA KAHLILI, author of “A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guard of Iran”:

• The Mullahs' ultimate goals of getting the U.S. out of the Middle East, obtaining a nuclear weapon, and taking offensive action against Israel
• Iranian proxy activity in Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain
• Claims that Hezbollah controls over 100,000 missiles and rockets in Lebanon

PART TWO:

• An expanded Iranian cyber capability post-Stuxnet
• Continued resistance IAEA inspectors face in getting full access to certain Iranian facilities
• Missiles delivery system developments underway in Iran

PART THREE

• What U.S. intelligence sources are saying about Iran's proximity to a nuclear capability
• The problem with former "red lines" now being treated as acceptable behavior
• Iran’s original nuclear ambition of deterring Saddam Hussein

PART FOUR:

• The disastrous effects a nuclear detonation would have on the global economy
• Shiite Islam theology and the Twelfth Imam
• The choice that the U.S. must pose to Iran: accept drastic limitations to its nuclear program and grant full IAEA oversight, or face military consequences

Jed Babbin, Michael Auslin, Daniel Gallington, Andrew McCarthy

JED BABBIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and co-author of “The BDS War Against Israel”:

• Why the new National Security Strategy is still not a strategy
• Smart defense spending and the Quadrennial Defense Review
• The President's Bergdahl problem
• Are Qatar and Turkey true allies of the United States?

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The current state of Sino-Japanese relations
• China's increasingly assertive use of territorial claims to harass neighbors
• Shinzo Abe's moves to create a more dynamic Japanese foreign policy
• Weighing the nuclear option in pacifist Japan

DANIEL GALLINGTON, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Territorial Security:

• European governments' failings to properly assimilate their large Muslim populations into greater society
• Walking the fine line of free speech as a modern-day journalist
• Two important Patriot Act provisions up for renewal in Congress

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• The Obama Administration’s hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood is the moderate Islamist group that can stabilize the Middle East
• Muslim Brotherhood stated goals of unseating el-Sisi’s government in Egypt
• Strategic patience: the strategy of doing nothing?
• President Obama’s statements at the National Prayer Breakfast

Raymond Stock, Ryan Mauro, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Gordon Chang

RAYMOND STOCK, Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum:

• Various Islamist groups' historic ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
• A continued struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood and el-Sisi’s Egyptian government
• Analyzing a Muslim Brotherhood delegation’s recent official trip to Washington, D.C.

RYAN MAURO, National Security Analyst at the Clarion Project.org

• The Muslim Brotherhood's goal to influence U.S. foreign policy against Egypt and rid Western dialogue of the term ‘Islamist’
• An explanatory memorandum about the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy in North America
• Mohamed Elibiary’s comments about Gov. Bobby Jindal and American Christians

BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU, Iran Research Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Is nuclear Iran a question of political will rather than nuclear capability?
• The shift in U.S.-Iran nuclear policy: from "can" to "how much"
• How the term "American Islam" relates to the Sunni-Shia schism

GORDON CHANG, author of "The Coming Collapse of China":

• Why a weak China may be more dangerous than a strong one
• The goal behind China's diverse and intensifying cyber attacks
• Alibaba's counterfeiting crisis

Amb. John Herbst, Robert Zubrin, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Bill Gertz

Amb. JOHN HERBST, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine:

• Putin’s efforts to keep Ukraine as a puppet of the Kremlin and away from the West
• Appropriate U.S. and NATO responses to Russian aggression
• Does Russia view President Obama as weak?
• Grading the U.S. nuclear deterrent in Eastern Europe

Dr. ROBERT ZUBRIN, author of “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil”:

• Saudi Arabia’s history of economic warfare against the U.S.
• The Moussaoui report linking the Saudi Royal Family to Al Qaeda
• How to break away from OPEC reliance
• SpaceX and Pentagon rocket deals

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Public Advocacy and editor of the blog Capitol Hill Cubans:

• Cuba's response to unilateral U.S. concessions
• Questions over the future of Cuba's status as a State Sponsor of Terror
• Should Ex-Im finance exports to Cuba?
• Why diplomacy with Cuba could lead to regrets on Iran

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Ash Carter’s statements regarding American support for Ukraine and Russian missile treaty cheating
• China’s push to dominate the United States military and economy
• ISIS inroads into Afghanistan, Libya, and now Saudi Arabia

Michael Pillsbury

MICHAEL PILLSBURY, former Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower":

PART ONE:

• How China is playing the long game for economic dominance and eventual conquest
• The ruse behind China's Free Market Frankenstein
• Kissinger's new take on U.S.-Chinese relations: Only China could go to Nixon

PART TWO:

• “The Kissinger Role”
• A history of U.S. and Chinese collaboration on science, technology, weapons, and intelligence
• The Clinton Administration's fundamental changes to Chinese-American relations

PART THREE:

• The rise of the hawks in China
• Understanding the puzzle of Beijing's political power struggles
• Spy vs. Spy and Chinese espionage successes

PART FOUR:

• The story of Larry Wu Tai Chin
• Dangerous implications of the Chinese "Assassin’s Mace" program
• Known unknowns of China’s nuclear force
• The U.S.'s loss of the battle of information dominance and strategic communications

Eric Schmitt, Diana West, Roger Kimball, Mark Schneider

ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times reporter and co-author of "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Campaign Against Al Qaeda":

• One general's quest for the truth behind the Islamic State
• The ideological vulnerabilities of the West
• What Kobani reveals about the Islamic State's strategy

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

• A military failure to properly educate U.S. forces about what motivates ISIS
• The minority that has "weaponized" Islam
• Message of the Pentagon-sponsored essay contest honoring the late Saudi King Abdullah

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion:

• The politics of appeasement and cognitive dissonance
• Terror attacks' common thread
• Theocratic pressure on Western institutions

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, former Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy Principal Director for Forces Policy:

• Cold War-style nuclear provocations in the U.K.
• Putin’s continued escalation in Ukraine to distract from the tattered Russian economy
• Russian ICBMs in the Crimea
• The stated goal of full nuclear modernization in Russia by 2021

Jack David, Peter Huessy, Peter Wehner, Andy McCarthy

JACK DAVID, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and Negotiations:

• Eight steps for taking the fights to the Islamists
• Recognizing international actors playing the "double game"
• A need to re-proiritize U.S. intelligence capability

PETER HUESSY, President of GeoStrategic Analysis and Senior Defense Consultant for the National Defense University Foundation:

• The U.S. continues to weigh the risks of sending lethal aid to Ukrainian government forces
• Vladimir Putin’s behavior towards Iran, Syria, and China
• Russia’s dangerous nuclear weapon policy as evidenced by a bomber-flyover of the English Channel
• Will the U.S. government finally fund nuclear modernization in the face of Russian and Chinese buildup?

PETER WEHNER, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives:

• Revisiting the Obama Administration’s overall stance towards Israel
• Severity of threats posed to Israel and the U.S. by Iran
• A controversial meeting between U.S. State Department officials and Muslim Brotherhood representatives

ANDREW McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• What U.S. law says about whether the Taliban qualify as terrorists
• Has the press held the Obama Administration to the same standards as prior administrations?
• Congressional options for countering Executive Branch extra-judicial measures

Eric Trager, Deborah Weiss, Matthew Kroenig, Gordon Chang

Dr. ERIC TRAGER, Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute:

• The origins of Islamic expansionism
• Details of a U.S. State Department meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood
• The Muslim Brotherhood's failed efforts to completely Islamize the Egyptian government

DEBORAH WEISS, of www.vigilance now.com:

• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s influence over the United Nations
• UN Resolution 16/18 and the Istanbul Process
• Institutional Jihad is alive in Europe and the United States

Dr. MATTHEW KROENIG, author of “A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat” and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council:

• Reoccurring diplomatic hurdles in the series of Iranian nuclear talks
• Likely foreign policy results if Tehran gets the bomb
• Living with a nuclear-armed Iran: a bigger risk than a U.S. preemptive strike?
• Chances of an Israeli first strike against Iranian nuclear facilities

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World”:

• North Korea's nuclear reactor racketeering
• Why Russia is China's junior partner
• China's currency manipulation and the Ali Baba deception