Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Fred Fleitz, Rick Fisher, Samuel Bendett, Katherine Zimmerman

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

• How the ObamaBomb deal is ending previous nuclear non-proliferation treaties
• Possible response by Tehran to Congress rejecting lifting of sanctions
• Russian and Iranian hegemonic power in the Middle East
• America’s role in defeating ISIS

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow In Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• China’s reaction to the US Navy navigating in the South China Sea
• Beijing’s military actions against neighboring countries
• The Communist Party’s hostility towards western democracy
• Comparison between communist China and the former Soviet Union

SAMUEL BENDETT, Business Development Strategist with Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions:

• Update on the Ukrainian-Russian conflict
• Russia’s attempts to rebuild the former USSR
• Moscow’s next step in the Ukraine

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Research Fellow and lead Al Qaeda Analyst at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Current state of affairs in Yemen’s civil war
• Desires of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen
• Al Qaeda’s growing threat to the Arabian Peninsula
• Likelihood of AQAP and ISIS cooperation

Pete Hoekstra

PETE HOEKSTRA, Former Rep. (MI-2), served as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Shillman Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project On Terrorism, author of the newly-released “Architects of Disaster: The Destruction of Libya”:

• UN Human Rights Council Resolution 1618 and President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech a signal of the US accepting Islamic supremacism
• Looking at the disastrous results of the Arab Spring
• The possibility of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi aligning with the United States

PART TWO:

• Gaddafi’s willingness to dismantle Libya’s WMD program
• Replacing US-friendly dictators with Islamic supremacists: the worst of the bad
• Muslim Brotherhood influence on the Obama administration
• Hillary Clinton’s unwillingness to assist Gaddafi after surrendering power

PART THREE:

• Exploring cover ups in the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012
• Submitting to the Sharia agenda of the Benghazi jihadist
• Gaddafi’s ouster segueing the immigration crisis in Europe

PART FOUR:

• Danger of terrorists infiltrating the US through refugee resettlement programs
• Muslim Brotherhood’s civilization jihad against the US
• How political correctness cripples American military training

PART FIVE:

• The intelligence community’s failures in the Middle East
• Politicization of intelligence over the past decade
• Importance of the interrogation process at Guantanamo Bay
• Need for Congressional Oversight to fix the intelligence community

Rep. John Fleming, Dr. Dalibor Rohac, Diana West, Richard Pollock

Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), Member of the House Armed Services Committee and its Subcommittee on Strategic Forces:

• Importance of a new Long Range Strike Bomber
• Looking at Congressional funding for the LRS-B program
• Effect of Obama’s veto of the NDAA on military spending
• What can be done to end the Obamabomb Iran Deal?

Dr. DALIBOR ROHAC, Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (London):

• Asylum seekers causing a wave of nationalist populism in Central and Eastern Europe
• What does a Europe with an open market and porous borders entail?

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

• Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe
• Poland’s election bringing to power ‘euroskeptics'
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán standing up for Western civilization

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Daily Caller:

• Dangers in a lack of security awareness at NASA
• Scientific sharing between NASA and foreign nationals
• Foreign intelligence services obtaining US green cards for security clearances?

Dr. Harold Rhode, Andy McCarthy, Amb. Ken Blackwell, Amb. Roger Noriega

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• The Islamic world’s war against Israel
• Falsehoods of peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority/Hamas
• Strained US/Israeli alliance being projected to other leaders in the Middle East

PART TWO:

• Iran’s actions showing contempt towards the United States
• Ayatollah Khamenei’s grand strategy in the nuclear negotiations
• Obama’s openness in dissent for American values
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strategy to defeat the Kurdish party in Turkey

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Pros and cons of Congressional hearings
• Was Hillary Clinton really blind to the U.S.-sponsored gun running taking place in Libya?
• FBI and Justice Department officials easing up on Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner

Amb. KEN BLACKWELL, Senior Fellow of Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission:

• Will Congress disband the Export-Import Bank?
• Potential of Export-Import Bank to help American companies succeed in the global market

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, Visiting Fellow at AEI, former Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• Cuban troops carrying out Moscow’s agenda both in Syria and in the Western Hemisphere
• Defection of Venezuelan prosecutor in the case of presidential candidate, Leopoldo Lopez
• Venezuela’s oil economy being used to launder funds in support of narco-terrorism
• Russia establishing a “counter-narcotics center” in Nicaragua

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Bill Gertz, Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, Gordon Chang

Rep. BARRY LOUDERMILK (GA-11), Member of the U.S. Homeland Security Committee:

• Homeland security challenges of today
• Advisability of allowing Syrian refugees into the United States
• Vulnerability of the electric grid to cyber terrorism
• Incitement of violence by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in Israel

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Reasons behind Russia’s increased presence in Afghanistan
• The administration’s lack of understanding the Sharia doctrine
• Obama’s concession to Putin
• China’s conventional military build up
• John Kerry’s push to pass the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

(Ret.) Lt. Gen. WILLIAM G. “JERRY” BOYKIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, former U.S. Army Delta Force Commander:

• American accommodation to Russia’s involvement in Afghanistan
• Importance of Guantanamo Bay’s interrogation program
• Delta Force’s recent mission to rescue hostages from ISIS
• Hillary Clinton’s latest testimony in the Benghazi attack hearing

Dr. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Martin and Ilie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution:

• President Obama’s “fundamental shift” in Middle East policy
• Obama’s statement saying Putin’s actions show “weakness”
• Hillary Clinton’s emboldening of Muslim extremists following the Benghazi consulate attack

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

• Skewed reporting on Chinese economic progress from the National Bureau of Statistics
• Communist Central Planning Committee struggling to prevent massive capital flight from China
• Is the Beijing government hacking for commercial purposes?
• Separating the Party from the State when dealing with the Chinese

Steve Cook, Dr. J. Peter Pham, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Steven Groves, Tarek Fatah

STEVE COOK, President of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys:

• Myths surrounding the criminal justice reform movement
• Inherent violence of drug trafficking
• Recidivism rates of drug related felons
• How the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has damaged criminal justice reform

Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council:

• Boko Haram’s continued enslavement of children
• Overview of American military action against Boko Haram
• Value of U.S. AFRICOM to regional security
• Possible increase of American military action in Africa

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

• President Obama using his “veto-pen” to strike down NDAA legislation
• Guantanamo Bay detainees to be transferred to Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado?
• Grading the ability of both the US and Communist China to project power in space

STEVEN GROVES, Senior Research Fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation:

• Obama’s upcoming environmental negotiations in Paris
• Will Congress prevent the administration’s unilateral action on climate change?
• How Executive Orders have destroyed the Checks-and-Balances style of governing
• China’s defiance of the Law of the Sea Treaty

TAREK FATAH, Founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress:

• How the Niqab debate shaped the Canadian election
• How Justin Trudeau’s appointment effects sharia imposition in Canada
• Canada’s proposed bill to increase Muslim refugee resettlement

Noah Pollak, Michael Bastasch, Michael Cutler, Fred Fleitz

NOAH POLLAK, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, contributor for The Weekly Standard:

• Threats to Israel from their Arab neighbors and from a blossoming Iranian nuclear program
• Recent violence being attributed not to Palestinians but to Israeli Arabs?
• Obama’s moral ambivalence towards the Palestinian Authority
• Outpouring of sanctions relief to Tehran

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Secretary of State John Kerry claiming Donald Trump unfit to run for President due to his views on global warming
• Ludicrous claim that the Syrian drought was the main catalyst in the country’s deadly civil war
• Insights on the upcoming Paris Treaty concerning climate change
• President Obama refusing to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Special Agent of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Host of the Michael Cutler Hour:

• Dangers posed by unscreened Syrian refugees coming into the United States
• Obama’s pressure on intelligence agencies to 'name our enemy' hampering their ability to defeat them
• San Francisco not enforcing U.S. immigration law

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

• Agreement between Putin and Obama regarding air space in Syria
• Updates on the ObamaBomb nuclear deal
• Falsehoods of Obama’s claims in evidence by recent Iranian actions
• Putting pressure on companies to avoid business with Tehran

John Solomon, Jed Babbin, Barbara Kay, Heather Mac Donald

JOHN SOLOMON, Editor at the Washington Times:

• Recent information documenting America’s actions in Benghazi
• State Department’s inaction in protecting Amb. Chris Stevens
• Reports of State Department weapon shipments from Libya to Syria
• Falsehood of the administration’s claim that a protest caused the Benghazi attacks

JED BABBIN, former Undersecretary of Defense, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Can the Select Committee on Benghazi actually get to the truth of the matter?
• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in displacing Gaddafi from Libya
• Russia, China, and Iran in complete control of what happens next in Syria
• Countering Putin’s action in the Middle East by sending US troops to Ukraine or Finland
• Vulnerability of cars being hacked?

BARBARA KAY, National Post Columnist (Canada):

• What was the driving force behind Stephen Harper losing the election to Justin Trudeau?
• The Niqab as a potential security concern
• Implications of Quebec Bill 59 in Canada
• Trudeau’s new government more supportive of progressive ideas being implemented in Quebec and throughout the country

HEATHER MAC DONALD, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research:

• Effects of the proposed criminal justice reform bill in Congress
• Republican politicians inaction against defending the criminal justice system
• How the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has affected policing in US cities

Marc Lebuis, Benjamin Weinthal, J. Matthew McInnis, Thomas Scheber, Kevin Freeman

MARC LEBUIS, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Point de Bascule:

• Reactions to the recent election in Canada
• Prime Minister Elect Justin Trudeau’s stance on multiculturalism
• Latest surrounding Quebec Bill 59
• Foreign influence in Canadian politics

BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• How Muslim migration has affected Germany
• Angela Merkel’s plea to Turkey
• Germany’s unlikeliness to reestablish sanctions on Iran
• Difficulty of defending Israel in Europe

MATTHEW McINNIS, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, former Senior Iran Analyst at CENTCOM:

• Is Iran nuclear deal equally binding for all parties involved?
• Denuclearized Israel requested by the Mullahs in the JCPA framework

THOMAS SCHEBER, Vice President of the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Importance of the United State’s nuclear deterrence
• Dangers behind China and Russia’s nuclear modernization
• Moscow’s strategy to build up their nuclear arsenal
• Tom Scheber’s finding regarding the development of nuclear capabilities

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and Director of Freeman Global Investment, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• How the hijra is a form of economic terrorism
• China’s current economic warfare strategy
• Repercussion from Beijing’s selling of American debt
• Concerns around ISIS’s attempts to bring down the U.S. electric grid

Matthew Continetti, David B. Harris, Andy McCarthy, Gordon Chang

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon:

• Recent developments in the passage of the Obamabomb Deal
• Iranian medias' coverage of the nuclear accord
• Link between Obama’s presidency and decreased relationship with Israel
• Putin's growing assault on NATO nations

DAVID B. HARRIS, Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program at INSIGNIS Strategic Research:

• How the Canadian election will shape their domestic stance on the global jihad
• Dramatic increase in Muslim migrants in Canada
• ‘Niqab Scandal’ splitting the Canadian population

ANDY MCCARTHY, Former Federal Prosecutor:

• Implication of ignoring Iranian contempt for the U.S.
• Tehran’s most recent violation of U.N. Resolutions
• President Obama’s treasonous nuclear deal
• Connection between Turkey’s Islamic regime and ISIS
• Importance of Canada’s elections to defending freedom

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

• North Korea’s development of a missile capable of hitting the West Coast
• South Korea’s appeasement of China
• Reports of Beijing’s continuation of cyber attacks against the US
• Reliability of China’s recent GDP increase