Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. Mike Kelly, Bill Gertz, Col. Richard Kemp, Deroy Murdock

With Rep. Mike Kelly, Bill Gertz, Col. Richard Kemp, Deroy Murdock

Rep. MIKE KELLY, U.S. Congressman from the 3rd District of Pennsylvania:

• American oversight of the internet, and why it's being lost
• The Defending Internet Freedom Act (H.R.2251)
• How the Arms Trade Treaty imperils the 2nd Amendment

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor with the Washington Free Beacon:

• Ash Carter’s plea to Beijing to cease artificial island building
• A Chinese-Russian cyber non-aggression pact?
• Tehran’s goals for Yemen
• Saudi Arabia being squeezed by both Iran and the Islamic State

Col. RICHARD KEMP, Former Commander for British Armed Forces in Afghanistan:

• President Obama’s nuclear deal with the Iranian regime
• Dangers of ignoring Iran’s support of terrorism
• President Obama’s willingness to return $50 billion in assets to the Iranians
• Similarities between Hamas and other terror groups

DEROY MURDOCK, Contributing Editor with National Review Online:

• Has the Obama administration exacerbated racial tensions?
• American alienation as a result of Iran negotiations
• Lack of American leadership in foreign relations

Fred Fleitz, Rebeccah Heinrichs, Andy McCarthy, Russ Dallen

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

• President Obama’s appeasement of Iran
• A potential surveillance-bill compromise in Congress
• New information in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s email disclosures

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Foreign Policy Analyst at the George C. Marshall Institute:

• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference destroyed the arms control construct against Tehran
• Failure to reign in Iran's ballistic missile program in the proposed framework deal
• Predicting the devastation of an EMP attack on America’s unguarded shores

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• The concern raised by the Islamic State's capture of Ramadi
• An increased possibility of conventional and nuclear war in the Middle East
• Criticisms of the Senate's "Jihad Caucus"
• Discussing the lack of leadership in the Republican Party

RUSS DALLEN, Publisher of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Venezuela’s inflation rate said by some to be as high as 500%
• Caracas stifling civil unrest through the use of Cuban shock troops
• U.S. strategic interests in Latin America

Diana West, Daniel Akbari, Col. Dick Brauer, Joseph Connor

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

• The Tale of American POWs who were  “liberated” by the Red Army at the end of WWII
• The United State’s problem recognizing the difference between good and evil
• Assessing the threat from the Senate’s "Jihad Caucus"

DANEL AKBARI, author of Honor Killing: A Professional's Guide to Sexual Relations and Guyra Violence from the Islamic Sources:

• The various body of sources Shariah law is drawn from
• American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) bill sabotaged in the Texas state legislature
• Passing the buck on the Iran problem

Col. DICK BRAUER, founder of Special Operations Speaks:

• Is Hillary Clinton eligible for impeachment?
• Clinton’s recent release of 300 State Department-era emails
• Support for Clinton’s impeachment from Congress

JOSEPH CONNOR, co-author of The New Founders:

• A puzzling lack of American demands from the Castro regime
• Congressional uproar over Havana's continued harboring of terrorists and fugitives
• Has Cuba renounced any of its human rights violations and terrorist ties since opening relations with the U.S. government?

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Ann Corcoran, Gordon Chang, Elaine Donnelly

Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security:

• Malfeasance surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack
• Is the Corker-Cardin bill enabling President Obama’s unchecked power?
• Sen. Dick Durbin’s initiative to take in Syrian refugees

ANN CORCORAN, author of “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America”:

• A United Nations proposal that the U.S. take in half of the refugees displaced by war in Syria
• The uncertain status of Syrian Christians
• Ramifications of two decades of Somali refugees being brought into the U.S.
• The secrecy of President Obama’s resettlement policy as seen in the Spartanburg, SC example

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

• Chinese challenge to a U.S. surveillance aircraft flying in international airspace above the Spratley Islands
• Beijing continuing to assert sovereignty in the South China Sea through construction of “artificial islands”
• The arrest of six Chinese scientists on American soil for economic espionage
• Has North Korea successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads for ballistic missile use?

ELAINE DONNELLY, President of the Center for Military Readiness

• The role of women in the military
• The administration’s experimentation with women in combat
• Lack of congressional oversight on Loretta Sanchez’s “SIR” amendment

Steven Bucci, Jim Hanson, Bill Gertz, Scott McEwen

STEVEN BUCCI, Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy:

• The Administration’s downplaying of ISIS advances
• Islamic State operations within the U.S. homeland
• Use of air power in Iraq
• The prospect of teaming up with Iran to combat ISIS

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

• Is Iran using the U.S. as its proxy air force?
• Concerns that Pres. Obama’s policy towards the Middle East has enabled an Iranian hegemony
• The President’s summit with the GCC showing waning Gulf support for the U.S.
• The suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia highlights still-strong sectarian grievances

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• President Obama’s failed policy in the Middle East
• Evidence of the Islamic State in Malaysia
• Chinese acts of aggression in the South China Sea and espionage aimed at the U.S.
• U.S. missile defense in South Korea

SCOTT McEWEN, co-author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, “American Sniper”:

• McEwen's newest book: "The Sniper and the Wolf"
• Snipers at the tip of the spear of the American military elite
• The trouble with Americans taking for granted the indispensable individuals who protect their freedoms

Fred Fleitz, Rick Manning, Diana West, Riki Ellison

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

• Senator Paul’s filibuster on the USA Freedom Act
• Implications of the fall of Ramadi to ISIS
• Effect of the nuclear deal on the state of Iraq

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Prospective 2016 GOP candidates express criticism of the President’s request for trade promotion authority
• House delegates realizing that the TPP is about much more than trade
• China considered for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

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

• WW2 betrayals of Russian nationalists allied against USSR leader Josef Stalin
• The revisionist Iraq War debate
• The wave of Muslim immigrants into the U.S. since 9/11

RIKI ELLISON, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance:

• New Pentagon report on China’s increasing ballistic capabilities
• An outdated U.S. missile defense policy
• New American missile defense sites in Romania and Poland drawing condemnation from Moscow
• Japanese and U.S. co-development of the Aegis Interceptor missile
• Vulnerabilities of an unguarded U.S. eastern seaboard

Shoshana Bryen

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center:

• Iran’s quest to become a world superpower
• Consequences of Tehran’s nuclear program
• A potential upheaval in the Middle Eastern oil industry

PART TWO:

• Iran's pursuit of key waterways
• Strategic implications of Saudi Arabia’s control of the oil market
• Signs that President Obama is alienating Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies
• Iranian hegemonic ambitions in Iraq and Syria

PART THREE:

• Iran’s divided support between Sunnis and Shiites
• Terrorist threats along Israeli borders
• The state of the U.S.-Israel relationship

PART FOUR:

• The administration's "blackmail tactics" towards Israel in the UN
• How the UN's Relief and Works Agency prevents generations of Palestinians from resettling elsewhere
• Why now-deposed dictators had a vested interest in protecting Mideast Christians

Rep. Mike Pompeo, David Kramer, Andy McCarthy, Gordon Chang

Rep. MIKE POMPEO, U.S. Representative for Kansas’ 4th Congressional District:

• Ramifications of the Corker-Cardin Bill
• The vulnerability of the U.S.’s electrical grid
• Will Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act be allowed to expire?
• Hillary Clinton’s refusal to hand over Benghazi documents

DAVID KRAMER, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs:

• Was there a point to Secretary of State Kerry's visit to Sochi, Russia last week?
• Why President Obama refuses to provide military aid to Ukraine, despite Congressional approval
• Ukrainian regret over giving up their nuclear weapons post-Cold War
• The persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East

ANDY McCARTHY, former U.S. federal prosecutor:

• The jihadist attack on free speech, and how Hillary Clinton's State Department supported it
• Why the “Iraq War” question posed to presidential candidates is flawed

GORDON CHANG, author of The Coming Collapse of China:

• Freedom of navigation increasingly imperiled by China in the South China Sea
• WSJ reports that the US may intrude on what China considers to be its exclusive nautical territory
• Just how many North Korean military officials have been executed since Kim Jong-un took power?
• Western backlash against the Chinese government-backed Confucius Institutes

Gen. Jack Keane, Günther Jikeli, Mark Schneider, Tim Daughtry

Gen. JACK KEANE, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army:

• ISIS’s conquest of the Iraqi city of Ramadi
• Should special operations raids ever be discussed publicly?
• Implications of the Iran deal for nuclear ambitions in the Middle East

GÜNTHER JIKELI, of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy:

• Who are the primary perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence in Europe?
• Does Islamic Law provide a basis for violence against Jews?
• Dangers of believing the Muslim Brotherhood's claims that it represents Muslims-at-large
• Manifestations of anti-Semitism in anti-Zionist rhetoric

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Nuclear proliferation as a result of the Iran deal
• Weighing the possible threat of an Iranian EMP attack
• Lack of Senate involvement in the Iranian negotiations
• Russia’s violation of the INF Treaty

Dr. TIM DAUGHTRY, co-author of Waking the Sleeping Giant: How Mainstream Americans Can Beat Liberals at Their Own Game: 

• An overview of the Citizens' Mandate Interim Report
• Is the Republican Congress living up to the promises made to voters in 2014?
• Where disunity among conservatives towards the Trade Promotion Authority stems from
• What the Tea Party image projects, and why it needs revamping

Rep. Chris Stewart, Bill Gertz, Patrick Poole, Ilya Feoktistov

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2) Member of the House Appropriations Committee and House Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Ideas for containing threats of terrorism in Africa
• Dangers of the Corker-Cardin bill
• Role of Middle Eastern allies in the Iran deal
• Was the USA Freedom Act the best possible option?

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Pressure on President Obama to take action in the South China Sea
• Chinese reneging on agreements regarding civilian nuclear technology and military hardware
• Replacement of the Pentagon’s Head of the Office of Net Assessment
• U.S. information operations lacking, particularly against the Islamic State

PATRICK POOLE, National security and terrorism correspondent for PJ Media:

• David Shipler’s new book “Freedom of Speech”
• The “Explanatory Memorandum”
• Civilization jihad in the United States
• The “lone wolf” and “known wolf" phenomenona

ILYA FEOKTISTOV, Research Director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance:

• APT's new documentary showcasing Al Qaeda financing and laundering at MIT
• Nefarious activities of the Islamic Society of Boston
• Mohammed Al Amoudi and Muammar Gaddafi’s foiled assassination plot of former Saudi King Abdullah