Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Jack David, Erick Stakelbeck, Andy McCarthy, Rep. Robert Pittenger

JACK DAVID, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and Negotiations Policy:

• U.S. policy's direct correlation with increased Iranian influence in the Middle East
• The importance of centrifuges in enriching uranium to a weapons-grade level
• Accounting for the Iranian regime's irrationality in any potential nuclear deal

ERICK STAKELBECK, author of “ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam”:

• FBI claims of investigations into ISIS activity in all fifty U.S. states
• The Islamic Caliphate's expansion to satellites in the Sinai Peninsula, Libya, Algeria, and Nigeria
• Iran: the leading state-sponsor of international terrorism
• What do Huma Abedin, Rep. André Carson, Grover Norquist, and the Islamic Society of Boston all have in common?

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Iran and Hezbollah's removal from the terror threat list by the Director of National Intelligence
• Different Administration approaches to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran
• Huma Abedin’s oversight of the purging of selected emails from Hillary Clinton’s private account
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's continued efforts to get Loretta Lynch’s Attorney General nomination to the floor

Rep. ROBERT PITTENGER (NC-9), Chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare:

• Iran's historical dealings with international agencies, such as the UN and IAEA
• Thoughts on whether to broaden the scope of the proposed AUMF
• The existential threat of Iranian ICBMs
• Preparing and prepping the American people for possible terrorist attacks

Tom Quiggin, Fred Fleitz, Peter Wallison, Michael Braun

TOM QUIGGIN, member of the Terrorism and Security Experts of Canada Network (TSEC):

• The "deep networks" of Jihad in North America
• Debunking the failed counterterrorism policy of "preventionism"
• Lessons learned by Jihadists from Communist espionage

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

• Sun News Canada’s depiction of radical Islam north of the U.S. border
• Secretary Kerry’s surprising admission to Congress in response to the Senate GOP letter to Iran
• A former Mossad chief “playing politics with intelligence”
• Weighing Bibi Netanyahu’s chances for reelection

PETER WALLISON, author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again":

• Real causes of the  2008 global financial crisis
• How the American government has weakened the market to foreign influence
• President Reagan's strategic vision to defeat the Soviet Union financially

MICHAEL BRAUN, former DEA Chief of Operations and now Managing Partner at SGI Global LLC:

• The capture of a top Los Zetas cartel leader in a joint DEA/Mexican Security Services operation
• How the splintering of "mega-cartels" into smaller criminal groups helps law enforcement
• Concerns voiced by SOUTHCOM's General Kelly about Islamic State operatives and the U.S. southern border
• Collusion between terrorist organizations and transnational organized crime

Clare Lopez

CLARE LOPEZ, former CIA Operations Officer and Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

PART ONE:

• Weighing in on the Clinton email scandal
• How Clinton's defense strains both her credibility and America's credulity
• Tough questions for Rep. Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi

PART TWO:

• The Huma Abedin variable in Email-gate
• Possible Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabist ties to the Abedin family
• Ms. Abedin’s service on the George Washington University Executive Board of the Muslim Students Association
• How nefarious influences on the State Department led to the rise of the Arab Spring

PART THREE:

• America's withdrawal of power and influence from the Middle East
• The empowering of Iranian hegemony and the embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood
• The Muslim Brotherhood's struggle for power and influence

PART FOUR:

• The Iranian regime’s mission of continuing the Islamic Revolution
• Existential threat posed to Israel and U.S. by a nuclear-armed Tehran
• Holding Iran accountable for its role in 9/11 and involvement by proxy in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Ken Timmerman, Jim Hanson, Diana West, David Harris

KEN TIMMERMAN, author of “Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi”

• Accusations of a double-standard over Hillary’s 2012 firing of the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya for use of private email
• The troubling allegations of Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
• Falsified intelligence briefs and the source of the infamous Benghazi video red herring

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Army Special Operations officer:

• The target that Hillary Clinton’s private email server poses for hackers and state-sponsored cyber malice
• Importance of rooting out those who wage civilization jihad in the United States

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

• Possible implications of email and Clinton Foundation donor controversies on Hillary's potential 2016 campaign
• Criticism of a Senate GOP letter to Iran from those in Congress hoping for a nuclear deal with Tehran
• Iraq War veteran USMC Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins’ right to a speedy trial

DAVID HARRIS, Director of the International Intelligence Program of INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.:

• Can the Stephen Harper government comprehend the threat of Muslim Brotherhood operations in Canada?
• The legal argument for outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood in North America
• Efforts by Muslim Brotherhood officials to promote themselves as the leaders of the Islamic communities in the West
• Canada’s dangerous immigration and refugee resettlement policies

Jack Devine, Charlotte Florance, William Tobey, Andy McCarthy

JACK DEVINE, former Acting Director and Associate Director of the CIA’s operations outside the U.S. and author of “Good Hunting! An American Spymaster’s Story”:

• Actionable intelligence: the lifeblood of national security and counterterrorism
• Thoughts on the restructuring of the CIA and the perils of groupthink
• Advantages of “the American Dream” in intelligence matters
• Why the invasion of Ukraine reminded America of perils outside of the Middle East

CHARLOTTE FLORANCE, Research Associate for Economic Freedom in Africa and the Middle East at the Heritage Foundation:

• The losing race to contain the Boko Haram threat within Nigeria
• AFRICOM’s strained relationship with the Nigerian government
• U.S. State Department support for General Buhari in the Nigerian presidential race
• Al-Shabaab’s use of Somali-Americans to wage jihad against the West

WILLIAM TOBEY, former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration:

• The problem with negotiations focusing solely on Iran's overt nuclear program
• The vital role played by the IAEA and the Iranian opposition in disclosing Iran's covert nuclear sites and progress in developing nuclear weapons technology
• Why America’s nuclear deterrent matters, particularly amidst the potential nuclear arms race in the Middle East
• Pros and cons of the U.S. Senate's letter to Iran

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• National security implications of “email-gate”
• Potential ties of Hillary Clinton’s former State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin to the controversial private email use story
• The bipartisan, lackluster approach to the Benghazi investigation
• A need for a potential Iran deal to face scrutiny from both chambers of Congress

Gordon Chang, Morton Klein, Peter Pry, Michael S. Smith II

GORDON CHANG, author of The Coming Collapse of China:

• China's unprecedented demographic abnormalities
• Is China's belligerent foreign policy a result of domestic desperation?
• Why the United States must impose costs on China for unacceptable behavior
• Reasons why the Chinese Communist Party is liable to lash out in its death throes

MORTON KLEIN, National President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• The existential threat posed by the Iran deal to both Israel and the United States
• Why does Obama still seek a deal despite new evidence of hidden Iranian nuclear facilities?
• Reasons why Iran no longer fears the U.S.
• Is there hope for the US-Israel relationship?

PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security

• Iran's official EMP doctrine
• The IAEA's dismal history of failure
• A hypothetical nuclear/EMP doomsday scenario
• Islanding, the state-level solution to the federal government's inaction on the SHIELD Act

MICHAEL S. SMITH II, counter-terrorism expert and Principal at Kronos Advisory:

• Assessing the strength and credibility of the Al-Shabaab threats against the US
• Islamic State threats against Twitter executives
• Growth of the global jihadist movement counter to the Obama Administration's earlier narrative

Amb. Robert Joseph, Rick Fisher, Sen. James Lankford, Ilya Feoktistov

Amb. ROBERT JOSEPH, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security:

• The "Russian Reset" in the face of Putin's aggression
• Consequences of a unilateral START treaty
• How continued concessions to slash US missile defenses only invite greater demands from Russia
• Why U.S. nuclear modernization efforts are stuck in the Reagan era

RICHARD FISHER, author of "China's Military Modernization" and Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• China's announcement of a 10% increase in military spending
• Can China's economy handle another double-digit defense spending growth?
• Specific areas of Chinese military technological advancements

Sen. JAMES LANKFORD (OK), member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

• The U.S. approach to bargaining in the "nuclear Persian bazaar"
• Is the President's AUMF meant to authorize military force or de-authorize it for his successor?
• Calling out the Muslim Brotherhood as an Islamist movement, not a legitimate political party
• Security concerns over the Clinton email scandal
• The vital importance of infrastructure security and defense against EMPs

ILYA FEOKTISTOV, research director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance:

• A history of the controversial Islamic Society of Boston
• Examples of dead, convicted, or on-the-run terrorists who were radicalized in the ISB
• Hopes that the Tsarnaev trial will provide insight into radical Islam in Boston
• Saudi funding of North American Wahhabi mosques

Garry Kasparov, Fred Fleitz, Charles Freilich, Diana West

GARRY KASPAROV, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and former World Chess Champion:

• Who was Boris Nemtsov and why was he killed
• Putin's history of political assassinations
• How the U.S. leadership vacuum created the current war in Ukraine

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst and current Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at CSP:

• Weighing Netanyahu's speech this week against those of Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill
• Counterpoints to the Administration's arguments supporting a nuclear deal with Iran
• Reasons it might be Iran that stops a nuclear deal from being made
• New revelations about further clandestine Iranian nuclear facilities

CHARLES FREILICH, former Deputy National Security Adviser in Israel, now at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs:

• Can the Iranian nuclear deal be seen as the least bad option?
• The international delegitimization campaign against Israel
• Why Lawfare should be more troubling to the PA than Israel

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

• Remembering the life and accomplishments of M. Stanton Evans
• Are tributes to Stan Evans purposefully ignoring his quest to expose the truths of the McCarthy era?
• The story of Martin Dies, a predecessor to Joseph McCarthy

David Rivkin, David Satter, Luis Fleischman, Patrick Dunleavy

DAVID RIVKIN, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Does Congress have a role to play in foreign policy?
• President Obama's pattern of executive overreach
• The alternative to a nuclear deal with Iran

DAVID SATTER, former Moscow correspondent and author of “It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyways: Russia and the Communist Past”:

• Assessing the likelihood that the Boris Nemtsov murder was a contract killing with Kremlin involvement
• Are Vladimir Putin’s actions in Eastern Ukraine meant to distract from Russia's domestic woes?
• Where the Eastern Ukrainians' loyalty stands after facing indiscriminate shelling from both separatist and government forces

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Editor of the Americas Report of the Center for Security Policy’s Menges Hemispheric Security Project:

• Iranian Revolutionary Guard training at the Military School of ALBA in Bolivia
• The connection between drug cartels and terrorist groups
• Motivations behind Iran's extensive involvement in Latin America
• President Obama's conciliatory approach to Iran in the Western Hemisphere

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, former Deputy Inspector General of New York State, and author of “The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection”:

• A call for an official Administration report on the extent of radical Islamist sentiments in the U.S. federal prison system
• The Saudi role in the spread of Salafist-Sunni doctrine within U.S. correctional facilities
• What terror attacks in Denmark highlight about the dangers of those predisposed to violence falling under the spell of Jihad

Rep. Chris Stewart, Ilan Berman, Andy McCarthy, J. Peter Pham

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• The broken bipartisan consensus toward both Iranian nuclear weapons and true net neutrality
• Pressing Secretary of State Kerry on Iran's poor record of cheating
• Why Harry Reid's power is undiminished
• The continued Congressional battle over defunding DHS

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President at the American Foreign Policy Council and author of “Implosion: The End of Russia and What It Means for America”:

• Possible Kremlin connections to the Boris Nemtsov murder
• Multi-part process to understand Russian action in Eastern Ukraine
• Moscow’s appetite for former Soviet states now in the NATO alliance
• The impact of NATO's internal strife on any Western response to Vladimir Putin

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor with National Review Online:

• The true problem with Iranian nuclear negotiations is unrepentant Jihad, not centrifuges
• Updating the Bush Doctrine to defeat state sponsors of terrorism
• Hillary Clinton's emails and the vindication of the Benghazi scandal

Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, and co-author of “Somalia: Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State”:

• Regional forces' recent successes in rolling back Boko Haram from several Nigerian cities
• Al-Shabaab’s threat against the Mall of America in Minnesota and other targets in Canada and the U.K.
• Why the diffusion of Al-Shabaab interests out of Somalia poses a danger to the West