Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Sen. Steve Daines, Rep. Mike Pompeo, Rick Manning, Diana West

Sen. STEVE DAINES (R-MT) Member of the Senate Committees on Appropriations and Energy & Natural Resources:

• Administration admitting Iranian malfeasance in a prior cyber attack on a New York state dam
• Necessity of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility
• Intelligence assets lost if Gitmo is turned over to the Castro regime
• Using a private sector model to fix the VA health care system

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

• President Obama’s upcoming Cuba trip as a ”shut down Gitmo” campaign
• Continuing down the path towards an Iranian nuclear weapons program
• Restraints on the IAEA on sanctioning the Islamic Republic
• Obama’s Global Engagement Center in combating extremism

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership rewriting the rules for the world economy
• Unfair, anti-American trade practices in the current TPP
• How to stop a lame duck vote on the TPP

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

• Emergence of migration restrictions as Germany becomes increasingly “Balkanized”
• Study finding sixty-one million immigrants currently in the US
• Chicago shutdown of the Trump rally from an emerging coalition of leftist groups

Dr. Harold Rhode, Katherine Zimmerman, Kevin Freeman and Dr. J. Peter Pham

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

• Possible outcomes of the Syrian peace process
• Putin’s involvement in Syria will continue behind closed doors
• Ankara bombing at the hands of the PKK?
• Erdogan’s consolidation of power 

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Lead Al Qaeda Analyst for AEI’s Critical Threats Project:

• Russia’s withdrawal from Syria
• Who are the moderate rebel groups in Syria that can work with the US?
• AQAP’s expanded footprint in Yemen

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Global Holdings LLC, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Iranian cyber attack on a dam in New York
• How vulnerable is the infrastructure in the US?
• Saudi’s attempt to kill the US fracking industry

J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, former Senior Vice President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy:

• Recent operations in Somalia by US to neutralize Al-Shaabab
• Al-Qaeda’s strong presence in Africa
• Recent terrorist attack at a beach front resort in the Ivory Coast
• Looking at the migrant journey from Africa to Europe

Robert Spencer, Faith McDonnell, Russ Dallen and Gordon Chang

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch.com, author of “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS”:

• Obama has resolute denial of reality in regard to the jihadist threat
• NPR comment on young people following Muhammad’s example to prevent extremism
• Trump misses a distinction between Islam and Sharia-adherent Islam

FAITH McDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy:

• Recent UN report concerning South Sudanese soldiers committing mass sexual crimes
• Despite Khartoum’s charm offensive, the Islamist government has not moderated and is aggravating conflicts in surrounding countries
• Congress forcing the Obama administration to formally decide whether ISIS is perpetrating genocide against Christians 

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

• Continued unraveling of Venezuela
• The Communism of Chavez has squandered vast natural oil wealth
• Will the collapse of Caracas lead to a migrant crisis to the United States?

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World":

• Increase in North Korean aggressive rhetoric a precursor to conflict
• Growing capacity of China to project power on a global basis
• Chinese economic performance and what a failing Chinese economy means for the rest of the world

Tom Nichols, Claudia Rosett, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Bill Gertz

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

• Donald Trump’s comments concerning “going farther than water boarding”
• Is torture ever morally acceptable?
• Ethical considerations in interrogating prisoners of war

CLAUDIA ROSETT, foreign affairs columnist at Forbes.com:

• Kim Jung-un being rewarded for missile proliferation?
• Pyongyang’s effectiveness in conducting nuclear blackmail on the international community
• North Korea’s long history of weapon sales to other illicit regimes
• Another case of nuclear extortion in the Iran Deal

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

• Giving US special operations the right rules of engagement
• Gaining back the trust of Sunni tribes in Iraq
• Partitioning Iraq to free it from the Iranian-backed puppet government in Baghdad
• Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces committing atrocities in ISIS-held territory
• Supporting an autonomous Kurdistan

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• DNI’s Senate report containing intelligence concerning the Beijing government’s plans in the South China Sea
• US military buildup to being in the western Pacific, starting in the Philippines
• US Cyber Command predicting a massive cyber attack on America’s critical infrastructure
• Release of ISIS video threatening “Paris-style” attacks in the US
• Critical intelligence break in 22,000 official ISIS documents obtained

John Sitilides, Noah Pollack, Fred Fleitz and Michael Rowan

JOHN SITILIDES, Principal at Triology Advisors LLC, served as Board Chairman for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Southeast Europe Program:

• Greece trapped in a geopolitical struggle between migrant countries and central European closed border nations
• Warmer weather means increased refugee flow
• Terms of the migrant deal between Germany and Turkey
• Visa free travel for Turkey would create a security conundrum in Europe

NOAH POLLACK, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel:

• Bibi Netanyahu's canceled trip to Washington, D.C.
• US military aid to Israel less than expected
• President Obama considering UN Security Council vote to push Israel into peach talks with Palestinians 

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

• Another Iranian ballistic missile test, with Hebrew message on the weapon
• Why the IAEA reports contain very little information, as stipulated by the JCPOA
• Latest developments in Hillary Clinton's email scandal

MICHAEL ROWAN, author of “The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America”:

• Venezuela’s collapse of production caused by the adoption of the Soviet model
• Links between the Maduro government to Iran, Cuba, and China
• Meltdown of Venezuelan economy a potential catalyst for another migrant crisis

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, Kurt Schlichter, Rep. Steve King, Michael Ramirez and David Bossie

Dr. ZUHDI JASSER, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy:

• Overview of the Muslim Reform movement
• The Muslim Brotherhood in America and its front groups
• The bigotry of low expectations in the Obama administration

KURT SCHLICHTER, author of “Conservative Insurgency”, former US Army Colonel in Operation Desert Storm:

• The US Army’s crisis of strategic visions, materials, and officer corps ethics
• Failing to stand up to the social engineering of the military
• Argument over female soldiers in direct ground combat situations

Rep. STEVE KING (IA-4), Member of the Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security:

• Situational awareness about the national security situation among the House of Representatives
• Politics being downstream from American culture
• Legislation recommending the State Department designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization 

MICHAEL RAMIREZ, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, co-editor of the Investor Business Daily editorial page:

• Impact of visual messages, especially for young people
• Is restriction on freedom of speech impacting political cartoons?

DAVID BOSSIE, President of Citizens United, former chief investigator for the House Committee of Government Reform and Oversight:

• The story behind the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision
• Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal in light of former staffer’s immunity by the Justice Department
• Top Clinton aid Cheryl Mill’s criminal history 

Bing West, Justin T. Johnson, Soeren Kern and Dr. Ilan Berman

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, served in USMC Force Recon:

• Obama’s Iraq policy continues to fail
• Efforts made by the Baghdad government and Peshmerga on trying to retake Mosul
• Syrian cease-fire status
• Hopes that Afghanistan won’t end up like Iraq due to a continued presence of US forces
• The Clinton legacy in Libya

JUSTIN T. JOHNSON, Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• Shortfalls in our defense capabilities
• How current US military spending stacks up historically
• Dangers of measuring defense spending relative to other nations
• The Heritage Foundation's "Blueprint for Balance"

SOEREN KERN, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Germany’s social transformation as a result of the Syrian migrant crisis
• Sexual assault tradition of “taharrush”
• 130,000 migrants have disappeared, possibly upwards of 500,000 in Germany
• EU and Turkey’s agreement on refugees

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• The JCPOA hangover
• Iranian election a show of confidence for current regime in Tehran
• IRGC one of the principal beneficiaries of nuclear deal
• IAEA having less oversight on Iranian nuclear program than prior to Obama’s deal

(PART TWO)

• Tehran’s “Manifest Destiny” fast becoming reality due to massive economic gains from nuclear deal
• Iran’s goals concerning Central Asia and the Caucuses having oil and Shanghai Cooperation Organization membership in mind
• China, Russia, and Iran’s “guiding hand” in Latin American politics
• Obama Administration to take new Israel/Palestine peace terms to the UN Security Council

Rep. Mark Meadows, Robert Vandervoort, Trevor Loudon, Joe Colangelo and Sam Sorbo

Rep. MARK MEADOWS (NC-11), Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa:

• DHS whistleblower Phillip Haney
• China not just a regional player, but a full global power
• Difficulties navigating policy with China due to economic partnership

ROBERT VANDERVOORT, Executive Director of Pro English:

• Why English should remain the official language of the United States
• Due to an Executive Order signed by President Clinton, government must translate any document into any language, regardless of cost
• Cultural significance of shared languages

TREVOR LOUDON, author of “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives Within the US Congress”:

• Could your Congressman pass an FBI background check?
• Neutralizationof the FBI
• Representative Keith Ellison’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

JOE COLANGELO, Executive Director of Consumers’ Research Organization, former Naval Officer:

• How to raise concern among Millennials about the danger of EMP
• Options to fix the vulnerability of the US electric grid

SAM SORBO, talk radio host:

• American people's lack of understanding about current national security situation
• Islam is not merely a religion but a social and political ideology as well
• Continuing debate about the merits of Socialism and Capitalism

Paul Weston

PAUL WESTON, Founder of the Liberty GB political party in the UK:

• Anti-European sentiment in Britain known as “Brexit”
• Refugee crisis from the Syrian Civil War
• Mass influx of immigration of Pakistani migrants to Great Britain

(PART TWO):

• Tensions between the British government and its Muslim citizens
• What is a “prevent” policy?

(PART THREE):

• Slandering of so-called “Islamophobes”
• Modern day political correctness
• Possibility of one to three million new immigrants to Europe

(PART FOUR):

• Threat of radicalization in the West
• What are “no-go zones”?
• Sex trafficking ring north of London covered up by authorities?

(PART FIVE):

• Subversion through stealth jihad
• Efforts to suppress freedom of speech
• UN Resolution 16/18

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Gordon Chang, Ben Weingarten, Dan Bongino

Dr. SEBASTIAN GORKA, Major General C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University:

• The many facets of jihad
• Subversive activity of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Explanatory Memorandum
• Egypt’s case study in Islamic leadership

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

• Changing bi-partisan consensus on China and Russia
• Using the strength of democracy to discredit authoritarian regimes
• President Obama’s initial disinterest in foreign policy

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media, LLC:

• Republican version of progressive foreign policy
• Seeking a mandate for combating radical Islam
• Getting to 1237

DAN BONGINO, former secret service agent:

• Focus of CVE and the ideological battle
• Political pressure inside US law enforcement
• Anti-anti communists and shariah law