Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Avi Melamed, Michael Braun, Nolan Peterson and Gordon Chang

AVI MELAMED, former Israeli intelligence officer:

• President Obama’s comments at the CIA on the effort to destroy ISIS
• American policy failures in the Middle East
• U.S.-Israeli relations

MICHAEL BRAUN, Former DEA Agent, Managing Partner at SGI Global, LLC:

• Drug enforcement has not received necessary funding
• Is criminal justice reform ill-advised?
• Astronomical spike in drug-related deaths in the U.S.

NOLAN PETERSON, foreign correspondent for The Daily Signal:

• Putin’s continual portrayal of the U.S. and NATO as enemies of Russia
• Fighting season back in Eastern Ukraine
• Russian flyover of a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com contributor, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s canceled visit to China
• U.S. relationship with India
• Chinese extortion of American technology firms
• Breakdown of civilian ties between China and North Korea

Ingrid Carlqvist

INGRID CARLQVIST, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Editor-in-Chief of Dispatch International:

• Hijrah to Sweden
• Sexual assaults perpetrated by migrants

(PART TWO):

• Majority of migrants to the European Union are military-aged men
• Migrant-related crime causing Swedish citizens to commit vigilante-style action
• Expropriation of privately owned homes to house refugees 

(PART THREE):

• “Exclusions zones” in Sweden
• Freedom of speech limitations for those criticizing Islamization of Sweden
• The political response to the migrant crisis

(PART FOUR):

• Will the Swedish government deport Syrian refugees?
• Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in Western societies 

(PART FIVE):

• EU-Turkey deal concerning migrant repatriation
• Visa-free access to Europe for Turkish citizens?
• Obama’s inability to combat Shariah

Rep. Robert Pittenger, Diana West, Dr. Bruce Bechtol and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry

Rep. ROBERT PITTENGER (NC-9), Vice Chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing:

• Opening the U.S. financial markets to Iran
• Link between terrorist organizations and drug lords in Latin America
• Obama unilaterally allowing refugees who have provided “limited material support” to terrorists

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of a Grown Up”:

• Red-Green Axis
• President Obama’s Libya debacle
• Erdogan demands prosecution of German comedian

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University:

• North Korean missile, satellite and nuclear capabilities
• Kim Jong-un’s Intelligence Chief defects to South Korea

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security:

• Assessment of North Korea’s “Super-EMP” weapon
• NORAD Commander Gortney’s concerns about an EMP attack
• How to protect our nuclear grid

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Kevin Freeman, Sen. Mike Rounds, Bill Gertz

Rep. BARRY LOUDERMILK (GA-11), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee and Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Oversight and Management Subcommittee:

• Jihadist cells similar to the one that carried out Brussels attacks present in the US?
• Political correctness killing Americans
• ALERT Bill giving local law enforcement capacity to combat terrorism

KEVIN FREEMAN, author of “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Could Happen Again”:

• Overt threat to financial markets from Civilization Jihad
• Administration alluding that Iran will be allowed into the dollar system
• Beijing’s anti-US economic policies
• China’s vast army of ‘cyber warriors’

Sen. MIKE ROUNDS (R-SD), Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee:

• The ‘Iran Cyber Sanctions Act’ in Congress
• Urgent need to protect US critical infrastructure
• Iran’s access to international financial markets not part of the JCPOA
• Russian upsurge in nuclear weapon modernization

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• Administration politicizing cyber attacks
• Chinese air defense zone over parts of the South China Sea
• US-China conflict through unintended provocation
• Will the Kremlin renege on the newly struck START Treaty?
• Those in charge of a hollowed out US military sounding the alarm over Russian actions

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin and Sarah Stern

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) JERRY BOYKIN, Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council, served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence:

• Jihadist cells in the U.S.
• ISIS genocide against Christians

(PART TWO):

• Law enforcement using data from the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Lack of U.S. military readiness

SARAH STERN, founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth:

• Iranian nuclear deal
• Update on the aggressive behavior coming from Tehran

(PART TWO):

• International community’s attempt to vilify Israel
• President Obama pressuring Israel to make a deal with Palestinians
• The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement

Rick Manning

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• How sovereignty contributes to our freedom
• Overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

(PART TWO):

• Will China benefit from the TPP?
• Supra-national bodies of economic control created by international trade
• What veto power will the U.S. have under this trade agreement?

(PART THREE):

• Potential Congressional action on the TPP
• President Obama ceding US control of the Internet

(PART FOUR):

• Reasoning behind the removal of US internet control
• Consequences of the Internet transfer to free speech
• How Congress can prevent iCANN
• Problems with the criminal justice reform proposal

Michael Cutler, Dr. Ilan Berman, Claudia Rosett and Kyle Shideler

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, host of “The Michael Cutler Hour” on BlogTalk Radio:

• Similarities between “no-go zones” and sanctuary cities
• How to prevent a Molenbeek situation in the United States 

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, author of “Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power”:

• Current state of play in Syria
• Iranian militias role in pushing back the Islamic State
• Two fronts in a Sunni-Shiite cold war
• Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Washington, D.C.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Contributing columnist on foreign affairs for Forbes.com, blogs at the PJ Media Rosett Report

• North Korea’s nuclear saber-rattling
• Pyongyang’s marketing to dubious actors for their nuclear program
• Possible nuclear standoff between Sunni and Shiite actors

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

• Erdogan’s visit to the Brookings Institute
• Turkey’s role in the Syrian quagmire
• How should the U.S. battle the Islamic State?

Burak Bekdil, Luis Fleischman, F. Michael Maloof, and Gordon Chang

BURAK BEKDIL, Ankara-based columnist for the Hurriyet Daily News, Gatestone Institute Turkey Expert:

• Deal between Erdogan and Merkel
• Current climate in Turkey for journalists
• Relationship between Washington and Ankara
• Lanham, Maryland mosque

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security”:

• President Obama’s visits to Cuba and Argentina
• How the U.S. government is dealing with the FARC and ERC
• Authoritarian left is losing its grip in Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela

MICHAEL MALOOF, Senior staff writer for national security affairs for WND and G2 Bulletin, former Senior Security Policy Analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• Turkey’s policies towards Syria and Iran
• Erdogan’s view on ISIS
• Belgian intelligence failures
• Potential problems with intelligence sharing

GORDON CHANG, World Affairs Journal blogger, author of “The Coming Collapse of China:”

• Vietnamese seizure of Chinese vessels
• Chinese firm Anbang drops bid for Starwood hotels
• US cedes control of Internet through ICANN

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Steve Cook, David Satter

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

• The Islamic Center of Wichita’s efforts to host a Hamas-linked cleric
• Jihadist networks in place inside the US
• Iran’s ability to directly attack the west, as seen in the hacking of an upstate New York dam

(PART TWO):

• Tehran regime being allowed access to international financial markets despite previous sanctions
• ICANN agreement transferring important internet control functions to “international stake holders”
• Will the ongoing email scandal disqualify Hillary Clinton from the 2016 Presidential Race?
• Importance of the Guantanamo Bay facility for human intelligence capabilities

Rep. LEE ZELDIN (NY-1) Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the US Army’s 82^nd Airborne Division:

• More US concessions on the JCPOA
• Unilaterally giving up leverage to Iran without extracting concessions from the Mullahs
• Disconnect concerning the reality of proliferation at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington

STEVE COOK, President of the National Association of Assistant US Attorneys:

• Current sentencing reform legislation regarding non-violent offenders
• Inherent violence associated with drug trafficking
• Examples of murders at the hands of early release individuals
• Islamic radicalization taking place inside the world’s prisons

DAVID SATTER, author of the forthcoming “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin” (May 2016):

• Vladimir Putin’s tactics for dealing with enemies both domestic and abroad
• Information operations through media outlets like “Russia Today” and ”Sputnik”
• How Russian officials continue to manipulate their western counterparts