Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Dr. Monica Crowley, Arie Egozi, Itamar Marcus, Bill Gertz, Richard Pollock

Dr. MONICA CROWLEY, Editor at the Washington Times and the Host of the Monica Crowley Show:

• Vladimir Putin’s motives behind intervention in Syria
• President Obama’s shift in strategy in Afghanistan
• Ongoing war on law enforcement in the United States

ARIE EGOZI, Editor-in-Chief of Israel Homeland Security:

• Palestinian Authority’s incitement of violence in Israel
• Israeli sentiment regarding Arab’s calls for sovereignty in Jerusalem
• Responsibility of the Palestinian Authority to end the Intifada

ITAMAR MARCUS, Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch:

• Palestinian incitement against Israel as an intense indoctrination of hatred
• Cycle of violence used as a political tool by Mahmoud Abbas
• How the international community perpetuates unrest in Gaza and the West Bank
• Secretary of State John Kerry’s upcoming visit to the region

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission draft report on the Chinese regional nuclear force and space/counter-space weaponry
• Accusations of Huawei telecommunications gear, a Chinese company, being used by the US government
• Vulnerability of US weapon and defense systems to cyber attacks
• Is Russia truly following the new START treaty despite its strategic forces buildup?

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Daily Caller:

• Doctors Without Borders hospital attacked by U.S. forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan because of failure to identify?
• Hillary Clinton’s insecurity culture at the Department of State and how it relates to classified emails on her private server

Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, Reggie Littlejohn, Fred Fleitz, Vincent P. O’hara

Amb. ZALMAY KHALILZAD, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, President of Gryphon Partners:

• President Obama’s failing foreign policy in the Middle East
• Analysis of Putin’s geostrategic plan in Syria
• Recommendations for American policy in Afghanistan

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

• Implications of China’s One Child Policy
• Women’s Rights Without Frontier’s ‘Save a Girl Campaign’
• How one can help save a life in China

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

• Reports of Iran’s parliament approving nuclear deal
• Tehran’s actions as contempt towards the United States?
• Obama’s incompetence in analyzing international provocations
• Putin’s long term goal in Syria

VINCENT P. O’HARA, author of “Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory” (2015):

• Coalition warfare trail and error in WWII’s North Africa campaign affecting allied strategy in both the Sicily and Normandy invasions
• Importance of French contribution to an allied victory in WWII
• Operation Torch as the first amphibious operation of its kind
• Using legal methods related to freedom of navigation to challenge Chinese assertions in the South China Sea
• Does the US Navy have the resources to fulfill its global objectives?

Seth Cropsey, Diana West, Mark Langfan, Jim Hanson

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, former deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Navy:

• China remains determined to claim sovereignty over international waters in the western Pacific
• Strategic importance of the U.S. alliance with Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines
• Large-deck aircraft carrier an important interment in projecting American seapower
• U.S. Navy not prepared to counter Russian maritime buildup in the eastern Mediterranean

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

• Democratic presidential debate and the socialist mantra of certain candidates
• The “Sanders Effect” catching on in American society
• Knesset making it easier for Israeli citizens to obtain firearms for self-defense in light of recent violence
• Is Western Civilization dead?

MARK LANGFAN, United Nations Correspondent for Arutz Sheva, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Syrian civil war as a gateway for the Mullahs to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea
• Putin securing a Shiite crescent in the Middle East
• Historical analogy of Chamberlain’s Munich Treaty and the partition of Poland by Hitler and Stalin to that of the Iranian-Russian alliance in support of Assad
• Threats to Israel from Iran nuclear deal, a possible Third Intifada, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other terrorist groups perpetuated by Barack Obama?
• Yemen, Syria, Iraq, the Sinai all in flames with Jordan hanging on for dear life, all examples of the Obama Administration’s “arsonist” foreign policy

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the U.S. Army Special Forces:

• Significance of Iranian economic sanctions relief in fueling the crisis in Syria
• Myth regarding Mullahs approving the nuclear deal
• Iran’s latest ballistic missile test
• Advice to democratic presidential nominees to defeat the Islamic State
• Reports of bombings in Ankara actually being Turkish government sponsored?

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Luis Fleischman, Andy McCarthy, Gordon Chang

Rep. MIKE POMPEO (KS-4): Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Committee on Benghazi:

• The fight for leadership in the House of Representatives
• Third Intifada against Israel a result of a weakened alliance between Washington and Jerusalem
• House Select Committee on Benghazi to conduct a hearing with Hillary Clinton
• Fighting to stop Guantanamo Bay detainees being relocated to Ft. Leavenworth prison in Kansas
• Test of Iranian missile with possible warhead delivery system yet another flaw in nuclear agreement with Tehran

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Senior Advisor to the Center for Security Policy’s Menges Hemispheric Security Project:

• Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC terrorists
• Upcoming parliamentary elections in Venezuela

ANDY McCARTHY, Former Federal Prosecutor, and author of “Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment”:

• Administration errors concerning its Syria strategy
• Shift in Obama’s policy in backing Syrian rebels
• Importance of Saudi scholars preaching against al-Baghdadi’s teachings

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

• Latest regarding the U.S. Navy’s freedom of navigation in the South China Sea
• Hillary Clinton’s political opportunism regarding the TPP
• Possibility of China joining the TPP
• Nicaraguan canal’s financial issues following Chinese economic downturn
• Most recent Chinese trade outlook

Guy Taylor, Tom Nichols, Brent Scher, Michael Pregent

GUY TAYLOR, National Security Chief at the Washington Times:

• Intelligence community’s failures to predict Russia’s involvement in Syria
• Collaboration between Iran and Russia in the Middle East

TOM NICHOLS, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College:

• Russia’s cruise missile strike in Syria
• Putin’s attempt to return Russia to superpower status
• Absence of American presence in the Middle East could lead to Shiite-Sunni war

BRENT SCHER, Staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Can the FBI recover specific emails, requested by Rep. Trey Gowdy, on the Benghazi-gate scandal?
• Platte River Networks claiming ignorance of knowledge concerning cloud firm doing offsite storage of Hillary’s emails
• America Rising releasing damning information concerning Clinton’s close confidant Ms. Huma Abedin

MICHAEL PREGENT, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, former intelligence officer:

• Moscow’s military presence in the Middle East
• Russia violating Turkish airspace and the subsequent effects on NATO
• Strategy to train Iraqi Sunnis tribes in Kurdistan
• Chances of an inclusive state government in Iraq

Rep. Trent Franks, Daniel Horowitz, Rep. French Hill, Shoshana Bryen

Rep. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Senior Member of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Importance of the vote for Speaker of the house
• Obama’s veto threat of the National Defense Authorization Act
• Congress’ support for gender-integrated forces

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review:

• Personal views of Rep. Kevin McCarthy
• Reasons to oppose the National Defense Authorization Act

Rep. FRENCH HILL (AR-2), Member of the Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing:

• Hill’s visit to Guantanamo Bay
• Iran’s financial gains from the ObamaBomb Deal
• Legislation against financial support for Iranian-sponsored terrorism

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center:

• Russia’s alliance with the Iraqi government a strategic ploy to project power on the West
• Is Vladimir Putin transforming his country into a future enemy of Sunni Islam?
• Saudi King Salman hospitalized and the greater ramifications for Washington/Riyadh relations
• Israel able to handle Middle East security concerns with the exception of a nuclear Iran
• Palestinian president Abbas trying to stay relevant through an “Intifada 3.0”

Jim Hanson, Diana West, Bill Harlow, Fred Fleitz

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the U.S. Army Special Forces:

• Recommendation from General Campbell to not withdraw from Afghanistan
• “Cut Down the Black Flag” strategy to defeat the global jihad movement
• Russia’s imperial ambitions
• President Obama’s veto threat for the NDAA

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

• Advisability of continuing operations in Afghanistan
• Repercussions of Afghanistan falling back into a terrorist state
• Difference between Western and Islamic culture
• Security implications of increased refugee resettlement in the U.S.

BILL HARLOW, Former Chief Spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, Editor of “Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program”:

• The Senate Committee on Intelligence's investigation into the CIA’s interrogation program
• An abuse of the congressional oversight function
• Effects of enhanced interrogation on captured terrorists
• Dianne Feinstein’s lack of objectivity in regard to these methods
• Why publishing the Army’s field manual on interrogation is making the U.S. more vulnerable

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

• Feinstein’s persecution of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation methods
• Latest regarding newly-found Clinton email server
• Khamenei’s remarks regarding Iran’s willingness to comply with nuclear deal

Rick Manning, Dr. Mike Gruntman, Patrick Poole, Ryan Mauro

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Manning’s concerns with the Trans Pacific Partnership Deal   
• Repercussion of TPP commitments concerning immigration policy
• The possibility of China eventually entering into the TPP Agreement?

Dr. MIKE GRUNTMAN, Professor of Astronautics at The University of Southern California, and author of “Intercept 1961: The Birth of Soviet Missile Defense”:

• Significance of the Soviet’s development of missile defense in 1961
• Russian ambition to develop territorial missile defense systems
• Violations of ABM Treaty by the construction of the Krasnoyarsk radar site

PATRICK POOLE, National Security Blogger at PJ Media:

• Russia’s role in protecting the Assad regime in Damascus
• Iranian military presence in Syria and Iraq
• The Obama administration’s relations with Egypt

RYAN MAURO, National Security Analyst for the Clarion Project:

• House Homeland Security Committee report regarding growing threat from jihad
• Alliance between Sunni and Shiite jihadists
• Saudi cleric calling for jihad against Russia
• CAIR’s civilization jihad inside the U.S.

Lt. Col. Seth Folsom, Joe Weiss, Dr. Walid Phares, Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, Gordon Chang

USMC Lt. Col. SETH FOLSOM, combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, author of “Where Youth and Laughter Go: With “The Cutting Edge” in Afghanistan”:

• Folsom’s insight into his new book, “ Where Youth and Laughter Go”
• Col. Folsom’s stories of patrolling off base, leading troops amid the constant threats of IEDs and ambushes
• Accidental bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
• Jihadists using mosques and schools to shelter fighters
• The military perception of the civilian/armed service divide

JOE WEISS, Managing Partner at Applied Control Solutions, LLC:

• Reliance of the control systems protecting the U.S. electric grid
• Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure command mechanisms
• Concerns surrounding international information sharing

Dr. WALID PHARES, Fox News Middle East and Terrorism Expert, Advisor to Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the United States House of Representatives:

• Russian actions in Syria, Iraq, and Iran
• Was the Russian incursion into Syria planned during Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s visit to Moscow?
• Putin forging a Shitte crescent through intelligence sharing to protect Russia against Muslim insurgencies in the Caucuses
• The possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran threat to Russia
• Upcoming election in Turkey effecting the migrant crisis and the overall future of Erdogan’s AKP

Lt. Gen. WILLIAM G. “JERRY” BOYKIN, Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and Executive Vice President at the Family Research Council”:

• Reaction to the U.S. military expelling service members for confronting Afghan rapists
• How social engineering and budget cuts are affecting America’s military readiness

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

• The United States and eleven other nations reach a consensus regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• Why the world will be safer if the U.S. dominates trade in East Asia
• TPP and the “movement of people” among an already severe refugee crisis in Europe
• Will China really be kept out of the TPP?

Rep. Steven Russell, Dr. Leon Aron, Alan Dershowitz, Dr. Peter Pry, Mark Krikorian

Rep. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), Member House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, and former Army Ranger:

• Upcoming election for Republican House Leadership
• Russia’s growing involvement in Iraq
• Concerns surrounding Iran’s presence in Syria and Iraq

Dr. LEON ARON, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at AEI:

• Is Putin using military force in Syria to distract from economic woes?
• Threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s ‘Patriotic Mobilization’
• Russian-Iranian alliance developing a Shiite crescent

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Professor Emeritus of Law at Harvard University:

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations
• Current state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship
• U.N. Resolution pushing for Palestinian recognition
• Democratic opposition to voting on the ObamaBomb Deal

Dr. PETER PRY, Executive Director on the Taskforce on National and Homeland Security:

• Suspicion that Iran already has a nuclear weapon
• Threat of an Iranian EMP
• Reactions to the reauthorization of the EMP Commission

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• Sessions’ hearing on America’s Refugee Resettlement Program
• 50^thanniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act
• How refugee resettlement is affecting European society