Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Mark Christian, Christian Whiton, Kurt Volker, Gordon Chang

Dr. MARK CHRISTIAN, Founder and President of the Global Faith Institute:

• A new take on Islamism and Barack Obama’s grand agenda
• The current Iranian Shia caliphate
• Can Egyptian President El-Sisi serve as a counterweight to political Islam in the Middle East?

CHRISTIAN WHITON, author of “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War”:

• Similarities between the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the six-party talks
• Are American diplomats in Lausanne serving as Iranian apologists?
• President Obama’s “non-nuclear utopia”
• Administration support for Shariah-adherent General Buhari in the Nigerian presidential elections

Amb. KURT VOLKER, Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO:

• Uproar over NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's inability to secure a meeting with President Obama in Washington last week
• The condition of the NATO alliance given declining member spending on defense and a growing reluctance to tackle global security issues
• Plans to stop Western submission to Vladimir Putin, partly through more ICBMs in Europe to counter the Crimean nuclear threat

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Are there segments of the Iranian nuclear program in North Korea?
• Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore and “the Asian Model”
• Implementation of coercive tactics by China’s Communist Party to fix their demographic woes

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bill Gertz

AYAAN HIRSI ALI, activist and author of “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now”:

PART ONE:

• What life is like in a shariah-governed, totalitarian society
• Civilization jihad's harm to Western institutions from within
• Mistakes U.S. leaders make by assuming the Muslim Brotherhood represents all of Islam

PART TWO:

• Is Shariah ideology compatible with the U.S. Constitution?
• Ways that the Muslim Brotherhood has fooled Western leaders

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

PART THREE

• The ways in which the Pentagon is "outside the loop" on the Iranian nuclear deal
• An update on the regional conflict in the Middle East between Sunni and Shia proxies
• Why budget cuts to America's military are posing an existential threat

PART FOUR

• China's war fighting capabilities in the space frontier and the vulnerabilities of American satellites
• Does a new Russian cruise missile pose a direct danger to the U.S. homeland?
• Testimony given by the Missile Defense Agency Director that the U.S. is under-equipped to counter the North Korean threat

Rep. Mike Rogers, Reggie Littlejohn, Fred Fleitz, Emmanuel Ogebe

Rep. MIKE ROGERS (AL-3), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee:

• Parallels between the Clinton and Obama administrations' cuts to defense to feed social programs
• Nuclear obsolescence by design
• Russian and Chinese attempts to surpass American nuclear capabilities
• The dangers of nuclear ambitions and rogue states

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers:

• Ten-year anniversary of the Beijing Women’s Conference and the thirty-fifth anniversary of China’s implementation of the one-child policy
• Family planning police: Domestic terrorists in China
• Is the Chinese communist regime stating to unravel?

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, and former CIA Analyst:

• The strategic importance to the Taliban of the five commanders traded in the Bergdahl swap
• France's hardening stance in protest of how the current Iran negotiations are unfolding
• Did the Obama Administration leak that Israel was spying on the Iran negotiations?
• Ways in which current U.S. foreign policy is inviting harm upon the the Jewish state

EMMAUNUEL OGEBE, International Human Rights Lawyer and Expert at the Washington Working Group on Nigeria:

• Security concerns amidst the upcoming Nigerian presidential election
• Comparing Boko Haram’s reign of terror in Western Africa to the Islamic State
• Contentious U.S. support to General Buhari in his presidential bid against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan

Trent Franks, Daniel Sullivan, William Wisner, Diana West, Jim Hanson

Rep. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee:

• Problems with the disconnect between the military and the civilian electric grid
• The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act's proposal to use hardware-based solutions to secure the grid
• Iran's progress towards an eventual EMP capability, thanks to the current nuclear negotiations
• Why sour relations with Israel undermines America’s international credibility
• Will President Obama need further convincing on the National Defense Budget?

DANIEL SULLIVAN, President and Co-Founder of the Sergeant Sullivan Center, and WILLIAM WISNER, leader of the SSC’s Veteran Fellowship for Mission Leadership:

• The story of USMC Sgt. Tom Sullivan’s health issues arising from exposure to hazardous environmental material during his combat deployment in Iraq
• The Sergeant Sullivan Center's mission of direct advocacy and promotion of private sector research on environmental-deployment injuries
• Watching to see if the Department of Veterans Affairs will modify the Veterans Choice Act

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

• Circumstances influencing President Obama's decision to keep more troops in Afghanistan
• Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson’s comments at the Muslim Public Affairs Council
• Root crises of transnational progressivism and a unified, global government
• Was the post-World War II order heavily shaped by Soviet influence operations?

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy, and former Army Special Operations officer:

• Political pressures weighing on President Obama's decision to keep 9,800 U.S. forces in Afghanistan through 2015
• Predicting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps's future role in the power vacuum of a post-U.S. occupied Iraq
• Could the proxy civil war in Yemen escalate to direct conflict between Saudi and Iranian troops
• President Obama's refusal to meet with the NATO General Secretary, despite Vladimir Putin reinstating Novorossiya

Michael S. Smith II, Ilan Berman, Rep. Diane Black, Peter Brookes, Gordon Chang

MICHAEL S. SMITH II, Principal and Founder of Kronos Advisory, LLC.:

• Deceased Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s more brutal approach to the group’s “protracted, popular war”
• Difference between the Islamic State and Al Qaeda's strategies for establishing a Caliphate
• Historical U.S. government outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood on counterterrorism policy matters
• The Islamic State hit-list of American service members and their families

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Morocco's potential to be a case study in the reformation of radical Islam
• Bibi Netanyahu's post-election political maneuverings to oppose a bad Iranian nuclear deal
• How the current U.S.-Israeli strategic dynamic is inviting harm against the Jewish state
• Could the vagueness of what the Obama administration has offered Iran force an Israeli preemptive strike?

Rep. DIANE BLACK (TN-6), member of the House Ways and Mean Committee and liaison to the House Budget Committee:

• Resolution 139: a plan to stop the genocide of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East
• Why a Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia is needed
• Tennessee's historical adoption of American Laws for American Courts legislation
• Biases in the Refugee Resettlement Program

PETER BROOKES, Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute:

• Vladimir Putin’s posturing in the resource-rich Arctic
• How Russia is using Ukraine against perceived threats from NATO
• Reasons for reluctance within the international community to provide military support to the Ukrainian government
• Implications of the pullout of U.S. special forces personnel from Yemen amidst a sectarian civil war

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Beijing's plan to supplant the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank
• How the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank serves as a test of China's intentions
• Why a weak China will likely have a more dangerous foreign policy
  The closing of the Chinese economy and the rise of "Neo-Maoism”

Cliff May, George Rasley, Beth Van Duyne, Keith Payne

CLIFF MAY, Founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Will the Obama Administration circumvent Congress by getting the UN to coin an Iran deal as international law?
• The Iranian Supreme Leader’s continued pursuit of an Islamic Revolution
• Critique of the “one-year breakout" clause
• Sour relations ahead between Obama and Netanyahu

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor at Richard Viguerie's ConsevativeHQ.com

• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announcing candidacy for the 2016 GOP nomination
• Gov. Bobby Jindal (LA.) as the only potential nominee who truly understands the severity of the radical Islamist threat
• Hillary Clinton’s prospects, all things considered

BETH VAN DUYNE, Mayor of Irving, Texas:

• Efforts to impose the first Shariah tribunal in the United States
• How Shariah law and laws of the U.S. Constitution are simply unable to coincide with one another
• Looking at "American Laws in American Courts"

Dr. KEITH PAYNE, President and Co-Founder of the National Institute for Public Policy:

• How Iran will usher in a proliferation cascade
• The impossibility of nuclear zero
• Modernizing America's nuclear triad

Charles Ortel, Kurt Schlichter, Bill Gertz, Amb. Roger Noriega

CHARLES ORTEL, Investigative Journalist and writer for Breitbart and the Street:

• Huma Abedin, Teneo Holdings, and Clinton crony influence peddling
• Why did the private equity firm BC Partners break its M.O. to invest in Teneo Holdings?
• Exposing the Clinton Foundation's financial inconsistencies

KURT SCHLICHTER, author of “I Am a Conservative: Uncensored, Undiluted, and Absolutely Un-PC”:

• Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy findings
• Grading the performance of GOP leaders in Congress
• Adapting the proper tactics to move the Republican Party forward

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• A Chinese influence operation to subvert the U.S. THAAD missile defense system in South Korea
• Will the Obama Administration normalize relations with the North Korean regime?
• Japan’s modest military modernization
• Three separate Islamic State groups currently gaining leverage in Libya
• Joint Chiefs of Staff testimony on the danger continued budget cuts pose to the U.S. armed forces

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• Protests in Brazil over state-owned Petrobras funds going to President Rousseff’s reelection campaign
• President Obama's introduction of sanctions on the Venezuelan government for its narco-trafficking ties and violent response to domestic protests
• Why the State Department's Latin America policy hinges on proposed internationally-monitored legislative elections in Venezuela
• Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) comments on the importance of the American-Israeli alliance

With Rep. Doug Lamborn, Fred Fleitz, Irene Garcia, Mort Klein

Rep. DOUG LAMBORN (CO-5), Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the House Armed Services Committee:

• The necessity of a fully funded defense in an increasingly dangerous world
• Addressing spending without compromising national security
• Why Netanyahu's speech before Congress continues to be relevant
• Congress' role in vetting the President's Iran deal

FRED FLEITZ, Center for Security Policy Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs and former CIA Analyst:

• Administration leaks hinting at a possible Iran deal permitting 6,000 operating centrifuges and the immediate lifting of sanctions
• The extent of the impact of financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s economy
• Senate 47 letter reinforcing the premise that the Iran nuclear deal either be a treaty or congressional-executive agreement
• Were hostile foreign intelligence services able to hack Hillary Clinton’s private cell phone?

IRENE GARCIA, Investigative Reporter at Judicial Watch:

• Florida Department of Law Enforcement records showing that an Al Qaeda narco-trafficker served as an informant
• Was Adnan El Shukrijumah given preferential treatment by the government, despite rumors of planning attacks within the U.S.?
• How the Benghazi investigative committee catalyzed the Hillary Clinton email-gate mania
• Chances of a federal court impounding Hillary Clinton’s private email servers

MORT KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Obama’s defeated campaign—waged with State Department funding--against Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu
• An Israeli national security mandate achieved through threats from Iran and Hamas' alliance with the Palestinian Authority
• Would the Obama Administration refuse to utilize its UN veto to block the formation of an Iranian-Hamas terrorist state?

Caroline Glick, Diana West, Jack Caravelli, Pete Hegseth

CAROLINE GLICK, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and author of "The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East":

• The results of the Israeli elections and why a unity government is unlikely to emerge
• Prime Minister Netanyahu's mandate on national security
• The appointment of Robert Malley to the National Security Council’s Middle East Desk

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

• The DNI’s Threat Assessment setting the stage for further Western concessions to Tehran
• Similarities of Iran's strategy to the deception-based negotiating of the former USSR
• Revelations that the White House continues to consult disgraced General Petraeus on the Islamic State
• Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the Senate 47’s open letter to Iran emphasizing checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution

Dr. JACK CARAVELLI, former Director for Nonproliferation on the National Security Council and 14-year veteran CIA analyst:

• Putin's "adventure" in Ukraine: one year later
• Western wistful thinking and the myth of a "New Russia" under Putin
• Is NATO prepared to deal with a recidivist Russia?
• How accepting a nuclear Iran could shred the Non-Proliferation Treaty

PETE HEGSETH, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America:

• Foreign policy problems arising from the U.S.'s “leading from behind approach” in Libya, Syria, and post-surge Iraq
• Implications of the Iranian Quds Force and Shia militias filling the power void in the fight against the Islamic State
• Political biases present in the National Intelligence Threat List due to the ongoing Iranian nuclear deal
• Veterans Affairs meddling with the Choice Act, a service meant to enable veterans to receive private medical care

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution:

PART ONE:

• Whitewashing Iran and the rewriting of history
• Historical precedents for a Congressional override of an Iran agreement
• Why does a deal with Iran matter so much to the President?
• Deciphering President Obama's foreign policy pivot toward revolutionary regimes

PART TWO:

• How America's friends and foes are responding to a shrinking U.S. nuclear umbrella and changing foreign policy
• A new carte blanche for U.S. policymakers to support the Iranian regime

PART THREE:

• Why the memes of victimization and Western guilt reinforce and encourage Jihadists
• Ways the Middle East can promote freedom and prosperity
• Will elections leave Israel without strong support from the American Left and Right?

PART FOUR:

• Executive amnesty's impact on the voting dynamic in the American Southwest
• Speculation about Hillary’s emails concerning the Russian "reset," Benghazi, and Clinton Foundation fundraising
• Social tensions sure to rise over government debt and restoring the American foreign policy deterrence