Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Sebastian Gorka, Kevin Freeman, Tom Rogan and Benjamin Weingarten

With Sebastian Gorka, Kevin Freeman, Tom Rogan and Benjamin Weingarten

SEBASTIAN GORKA, Chairman of the Threat Knowledge Group, author of “Defeating Jihad: the Winnable War”:

• ISIS is totalitarianism centered around religion
• What does it take to win the war against Jihad?
• Jihadist use of both kinetic and subversive methods against western civilization

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Creator of GlobalEconomicWarfare.com:

• Open society foundation attempted to block dissenters on the Internet
• Why ICANN must be stopped

TOM ROGAN, Columnist at the National Review, Senior Fellow at the Steamboat Institute:

• Putin’s strategy for Syria and the Middle East

BEN WEINGARTEN, Contributor to Conservative Review, Founder of Change Up Media LLC:

• UK quarantining Jihad in prisons
• The problems with “Countering Violent Extremism”

With Robert Spencer, Mark Krikorian, Michael Cuttler, and Gordan Chang

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, author of “The Truth about Mohammed,” and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades”:

·      How the left uses a counter narrative to explain away Islam’s teachings

·      George Soros spent 500,000 on center for American progress for a report on Islamophobia

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

·      Trump campaign “malpractice” on immigration

·      Viable policies for immigration control

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Services:

·      Borders are easy ways for drugs, terrorist and illegal aliens to come into the states

·      Would-be terrorists are going to Brazil to get new identities before coming to the US

 

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, and Author of: “The Coming Collapse of China,” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World”:

·      India and China in spat over terrorism sponsorship

·      Deterring China

 

With Admiral Ace Lyons and Bill Gertz

ADMIRAL ACE LYONS, Former Commander and Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet:

• Provocation by the Iranians on U.S. Navy Ships
• Iran provided key materials to 9/11 hijackers
• Dangerous IED that Penetrated armor provided by Iran to terrorist organizations.

Part 2:
• US vs. Chinese Naval capability
• Should we reopen the Subic Bay base?

Part 3:
• Putin’s Aspirations and Aggression
• Enemies will take advantage of your perceived weakness

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor for Washington free Beacon, and Inside Ring Columnist:
• Lacking Net Assessments from the Pentagon
• The need to modernize nuclear forces
• Hypersonic Arms race by the Russians and Chinese
• China Developing Missile Defense Systems and capabilities

With Nolan Peterson, Fred Fleitz, Ken Timmerman, and Claudia Rosett

NOLAN PETERSON, Foreign correspondent for The Daily Signal:

· 25th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence
· On-the-ground situation in Kiev
· Power of Russian propaganda

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA officer, Senior Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:
· The U.S. “leverage” payment to Iran
· Clinton Foundation slush fund

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, author of “Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi”:
· Clinton association to Huma Abedin and her connection to the Muslim Brotherhood
· Abedin’s Organization and its goals of implementation of Sharia
· The Clintons refusal to answer whether or not Huma was paid during her internship

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Policy fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, columnist for Forbes.com:
· Following the money trail of the Iranian ransom payment

With Chris Farrell, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Diana West and Michael Pregent

CHRIS FARELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Judicial watch has recovered over 30,000 emails deleted from Hilary Clinton’s private server
• Clintons ties to the Muslim Brotherhood through Huma Abedin
• Obtained Possibly incriminating information under oath and sent to the Justice Department for review

PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission:

• North Korea’s ballistic missile launch from a submarine
• How dangerous is Kim Jong Un?

DIANA WEST, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• Grooming gangs in the U.K.
• Decline of Europe

MICHAEL PREGENT, Visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Executive Director of Veterans Against the Iran deal:

• Shia Militias Massacres in Iraq
• US military hardware going to Shia backed extremist groups
• Iran ejected Russian military forces from bases

With John Guandolo, Luis Fleischman, Adam Kredo and Michael Cutler

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understandingthethreat.com:

• CAIR’s outreach to Republicans in Georgia
• Are foreign fighters in Syria knowledgeable about Islam?

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• Iranian foreign minister’s visit to six countries in Latin America
• Sunni extremists coming across the Southern border

ADAM KREDO, Senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon:

• George Soros funded opposition research against CSP, MEF, amongst other think tanks
• Ploughshares fund
• U.S. State department issues warning to travelers to Iran

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Most important issue in the 2016 Presidential election
• Refugee vetting process

With Russ Dallen, Kyle Shideler, Stewart Baker and Gordon Chang

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune:

• How the Olympics fared in Rio
• Venezuelan crisis

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

• UK preacher Anjem Choudary convicted
• Huma Abedin’s work at a radical Muslim journal

STEWART BAKER, Partner in the Washington Office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP:

• DNC data breeches
• Deterring cyber threats

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• What the TPP means for US allies in Asia
• Military purge in China

David Goldman, Bill Gertz, Rick Manning, Dr. Mark Schneider

DAVID GOLDMAN (Spengler), columnist for Asia Times Online, author of “How Civilizations Die and Why Islam is Dying Too”:

• GOP foreign policy establishment and Egypt’s fate during the Arab Spring
• Donald Trump’s approach to the Middle East
• Political Islam of Turkey’s AKP party incompatible with democracy

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, columnist at the Washington Times:

• Ukrainian efforts to retake Crimea?
• Russian airpower launching sorties against Syrian rebels, from an Iranian base
• ‘Underground command and control facilities’ around Moscow
• China launches a quantum communications satellite
• Bob Corker’s opposition to the CTBT going to the UN floor

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Freedom of the internet at stake with ICANN
• Both presidential candidates opposed to the TPP
• Obama’s efforts to nationalize the police force
• Trump’s speech concerning law and order

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• CTBT doesn’t define what it’s banning
• Russia and China’s numerous modernization programs underway
• US deterrent in critical danger

David Satter, Fred Fleitz, Daniel Horowitz, Dr. Michael Auslin

DAVID SATTER, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin”:

• Mystery surrounding the apartment bombings Putin blamed on Chechen militants
• Claim that Ukrainian forces attacked across the Crimean border
• Advice for the next Commander in Chief on US/Russia policy
• Putin’s actions in the Middle East designed to promote Russian nationalism

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

• Politicizing intelligence
• Controversy of the media echo chamber, Ploughshares Fund, and the Washington Post

DANIEL HOROWITZ, senior editor at Conservative Review, author of “Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America”:

• Supplanting Western civilization through Muslim immigration
• Support system in the West enabling radicalization
• The latest on criminal justice reform

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, resident scholar and director of Japan studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Propensity for conflict in East and South Asia
• China’s dangerous population decline
• Asian economic stagnation harming global markets
• Beijing cooking the books?
• Will Japan and South Korea seek nuclear deterrents?

Doug Feith, Giulio Meotti, Diana West, Dr. Harold Rhode

DOUG FEITH, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• US to permanently forego nuclear testing?
• Obama’s efforts to make the US a party to the CTBT through the UN Security Council, this subverting the Senate

GIULIO MEOTTI, Regular contributor to the Gatestone Institute:

• Timeline of the terror attacks in Europe
• Islam’s ‘silent conquest’ of Europe
• Muslim Brotherhood opposing assimilation in the West
• Donald Trump’s comments regarding “a new Cold War”

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

• Donald Trump’s national security speech in Youngstown, Ohio
• Fighting the infrastructure of radicalization in the US
• Breitbart co-founder Steve Bannon, being brought on board the Trump campaign
• Comment that Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded ISIS”
• Media being bought by the Ploughshares Fund

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Former Turkish desk officer at the US Department of Defense:

• Erdogan’s goal of desecularizing Turkey
• Weakness and concession to Sunni Islam
• Angela Merkel allowing Turks visa-free access to Europe
• Outlook for Fethullah Gulen