Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Stewart Baker, Frank Calzon, Danielle Pletka, James O’Keefe

STEWART BAKER, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security:

• American ability to contend with cyber warfare
• European Union decreasing American intelligence collection capabilities
• Perils of intelligence sharing

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C.:

• Future prospects for a free Cuba
• Economic outlook for investment in Cuba
• Castro brother’s support for terrorism
• Concern surrounding Cuban migrants to the US
• Implications of turning Gitmo over to the Cubans

DANIELLE PLETKA, Senior VP for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Obama’s foreign policy outlook at the SOTU
• Consequences of sanctions relief to the Islamic Republic's nuclear and ballistic missile programs
• Iranian troops in Syria as the mullahs provide additional support to Hezbollah in Lebanon/Syria and the Houthis in Yemen
• Focusing on ISIS while ignoring the reemergence of the Taliban and giving free passes to Xi in the South China Sea and Putin in Ukraine

JAMES O’KEEFE, Founder and President of Project Veritas:

• Investigation into Common Core education
• Movement on college campuses to shred the Constitution
• Exposing the Hijra in Greece  

Fred Fleitz, Chuck Downs, Bing West, Debbie Weiss

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

• How the IAEA will enforce the Iranian nuclear agreement
• Tehran’s use of sanction relief
• Consequences of US non-response to aggressive Iranian behavior
• Increasing tensions between Saudi-Arabia and Iran

CHUCK DOWNS, former Deputy Director of the East Asia Office at the Department of Defense:

• What did the North Korea use in their nuclear test?
• Pyongyang’s actions as a shake down
• China’s concern of the DPRK’s nuclear actions

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, former Force Recon Marine in the Vietnam War:

• Global standing of the US military
• Effect of withdrawing from Iraq
• Social engineering of US Marine Corps

DEBBIE WEISS, author of “The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Jihad Against Free Speech”:

• Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s global agenda
• Hillary Clinton’s advancement of UN Resolution 1618

Rep. Scott Perry, Diana West, Rep. Ted Poe, Morgan Chalfant

With Rep. Scott Perry, Diana West, Rep. Ted Poe, Morgan Chalfant

Rep. SCOTT PERRY (PA-4), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee:

• Reaction to Obama’s State of the Union Address
• American awareness to the ‘enemy within’
• Threat to the electric grid posed by the Islamic State
• Prospects for finding the truth regarding Benghazi

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up”:

• Effects of the Hijra on Europe
• Koran’s teaching of ‘Sexual Jihad’
• Shifting power of European politics
• Demographic transformation of Los Angeles 

Rep. TED POE (TX-2), Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:

• President Obama’s failure to address terrorism in the State of the Union address
• ISIS social media recruitment 
• Twitter’s new restrictions on hate speech
• Iranian nuclear deal nearing implementation day

MORGAN CHALFANT, Reporter at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Update on the ten American sailors held by Iran
• Marine Corps study about women in combat
• Surge of unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border 

Sen. James Lankford, Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, Marc Lebuis, Michael Braun

Sen. JAMES LANKFORD (R-OK), Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Predicting President Obama’s State of the Union Address
• Hamas-linked individuals attending the SOTU
• Likely outcome of Iranian sanctions relief
• Importance of protecting the U.S. electric grid
• Significance of NSA’s spying on members of Congress

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

• Peace talks between Afghani government and Taliban
• Situation report on the instability of Iraq
• Significance of Iran’s rapid regional growth

MARC LEBUIS, Founder and director of Point de Bascule (Tipping Point) in Canada:

• Quebec Bill 59’s impact to free speech in Canada
• OIC’s influence in establishing Human Rights Council Resolution 1618
• Prognosis to defeat Quebec Bill 59 and HRC Resolution 1618

MICHAEL BRAUN, Managing Partner at SGI Global, former Assistant Administrator and Chief of Operations at the DEA:

• Implications of capturing “El Chapo”
• Spread of drug related cartels in the United States
• Advice to future presidents to defeat the drug cartels

Clare Lopez, Michael Cutler, Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang

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

• American support in Saudi-Iran conflict
• Nuclear ambitions of Tehran and Riyadh
• Implications of Iranian sanction relief
• Recent film release of “13 Hours”

MICHAEL CUTLER, former INS Senior Special Agent, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Drug kingpin “El Chapo” back in the custody of Mexican authorities
• Drug trafficking into the US transitioning from Miami speedboats to border crossings from Mexico
• No database to vet Syrian refugees
• Obama’s “instrumentalities of change” regarding immigration

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• North Korea’s recent nuclear detonation
• Reasoning behind Pyongyang’s aggressive behavior
• Possibility that DPRK negotiation a new nuclear deal?
• IAEA’s unwillingness to investigate Iranian compliance to nuclear deal

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

• Communist China’s intervention in the economy
• Devaluation of the Chinese renmibi
• Beijing’s inner turmoil leading to aggressive external policy
• Likelihood of revolution in China
• North Korea’s recent nuclear test

Rep. Chris Stewart, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Michael Rubin, Bill Gertz

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), Member, House Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Reports of the NSA spying on congress
• Administration’s aggressive policy towards Israel
• Dangers in not vetting individuals coming to the U.S.

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

• Views on NSA spying scandal
• Disparities in reports of Iranian exports of enriched uranium
• North Korea’s history of violating nuclear agreements
• Iranian and North Korean nuclear cooperation

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Analysis of Iranian-Saudi conflict
• North Korea’s ultimate goal in the recent nuclear test
• Importance of having aircraft carriers in the Asian theater
• Advice to future presidents regarding terrorist ideology

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Latest intel assessment of the North Korean underground nuclear test and submarine-launched ballistic missile test
• Thaw in relations between Pyongyang and Beijing
• Obama Administration using the Muslim Brotherhood to ‘combat violent extremism’
• China’s blinding laser weapon system in direct violation of UN statutes

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Tom Marino, Con Coughlin

Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), Chairman of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations:

• Presidential overreach by Obama regarding Gitmo and gun control
• Stance on bipartisan support for criminal justice reform

Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), PART TWO:

• Importance of labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization
• How DHS has stripped tools for spotting terrorists
• Attempts by Congress to receive files regarding the Holy Land Foundation trial

Rep. TOM MARINO (PA-10), Member, House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security:

• Implications of executive action on gun control
• Legal blocks to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign
• Obama’s role in Iranian and North Korean actions

CON COUGHLIN, Defense Editor at The Daily Telegraph (UK):

• French President Hollande’s comments regarding a war against ISIS inside Europe
• The Global Jihad Movement’s powerhouse in Raqqa, Syria
• Emergence of a new “Jihadi John"
• Consequences of closing Guantanamo Bay
• Elements of the British Commonwealth Foreign Office sympathetic to Iranian interests versus Saudi

Diana West, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. “Jerry" Boykin, Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Guy Taylor

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up”:

• War on women by sharia adherent men in Germany
• Will feminists act against Islamists?

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) WILLIAM G. “JERRY" BOYKIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and original member of Delta Force:

• Maintaining American forces and influence in Afghanistan
• Likelihood Iraqi government can retake and hold Ramadi
• Growing Iranian influence in Iraq

Amb. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister of Congressional Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

• American and Israeli sharing of military training and equipment

GUY TAYLOR, national security team leader at the Washington Times:

• News about an undisclosed Iranian bunker containing ballistic missiles
• Tehran fighting proxy wars in both Yemen and Syria
• Will Iran and Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic tensions escalate into yet another hot war in the Middle East?

Dr. Harold Rhode, Kevin Freeman, Andy McCarthy, Richard Pollock

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the Department of Defense:

• Growing tensions between Iran and the rest of the Middle East/Africa
• America’s role in Iran’s bold behavior
• Hezbollah’s growing emboldening in Israel

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investment Council:

• Impact of Saudi-Iranian tensions on the global oil markets
• Lack of national security policy awareness in the U.S.
• China’s economic downturn and its effect on the American market

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Dangers of exploiting and restricting freedom of speech in the United States
• Obama administration’s role in advancing sharia blasphemy laws

ANDY McCARTHY, PART TWO:

• News that Twitter can restrict “sensitive topics”
• The Saudi royal family’s involvement in Twitter
• Prosecution of Dinesh D'Souza
• Obama’s executive action on gun control

RICHARD POLLOCK, Reporter for The Daily Caller:

• Former DIA director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on the ongoing Clinton email revelations
• How the entire Clinton email controversy started, at the hands of a lone Romanian hacker
• Did the White House use the NSA to monitor both Bibi Netanyahu and members of Congress?
• Administration’s history of animosity with Israel
• VP Biden and his son’s ties to corrupt Russian oligarchs through a Ukrainian gas and energy corporation

Gordon Chang, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) David Morris, Kyle Shideler, Russ Read

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

• Beijing blocking share trading to start off the New Year
• China’s aggressive military actions
• Chinese demand for encryption keys to American technology

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) DAVID MORRIS, Chairman of the Green Beret Foundation, former US Army Special Forces Officer:

• Green Beret Foundation’s role in helping wounded warriors
• Helping wounded Green Berets redeploy
• Green Beret Foundation’s “Next Ridge Line” Program

 KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Center for Security Policy’s Threat Information Office:

• Growing tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia
• Reports of Saudi support of ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood
• Twitter’s proposed suppression of “Sharia Hate Speech”

RUSS READ, national security correspondent for The Daily Caller, Founder and Editor in Chief of ParabellumReport.com:

• Turkey reestablishing diplomatic ties with Israel in 2015
• China building its second active aircraft carrier
• Grading Al Qaeda’s strength in Afghanistan as the Taliban continue to gain ground against ANSF
• Obama Administration walking back threats of sanctioning Iranian ballistic missile capability