Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Rosemary Jenks, and Richard Pollock

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Should US forces withdraw from Iraq?
• Why Soleimani was the "epitome of evil"

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• Recap of the Taiwanese election
• The consolidation of democracy in Hong Kong
• How the election of Tsai Ing-wen is a rejection of Beijing

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, Former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The state of immigration in the United States
• An update on the border wall
• An overview of E-Verify

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at One America News Network:

• Who is Lanny Davis?
• A preview of the upcoming impeachment trial in the senate

With Ken Timmerman, Sam Faddis, Jim Fanell, and Joe Bosco

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, Author of Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi, Nationally recognized investigative reporter:

• Qassem Soleimani's importance to Iran
• How Iranians have reacted to the media's  portrayal of the killing of Soleimani

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress:

• Will the US ever find peace with the Iranian regime?
• Does the US need to be involved in the Middle East anymore?
• The dangers of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon

JAMES FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• Significance of the recent naval exercise by Russia, Iran, and China in the Indian Ocean
• An update on Hong Kong
• An overview of the upcoming election in Taiwan

JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest:

• An update on China's use of the South China Sea
• China's increasing presence in the North and South Poles
• The political warfare China has been waging against Australia 

With David Goldman, Fred Fleitz, Chris Farrell and Gordon Chang

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• Assessing the options Trump had in dealing with Iran
• How will the US proceed now that Soleimani is dead?

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• Why the killing of Soleimani was completely justified
• How our national security is being crippled by Trump hatred
• Is Iran done with their retaliatory attacks?
• An overview of the whistleblower’s complaint against President Trump

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• An update on the impeachment against President Trump
• Is there an anti-Trump conspiracy?
• A review of CrowdStrike

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• North Korea's links with Soleimani
• Chinese nationals spying on the US from within
• China banning foreign materials in their school system

 

With Benjamin Weingarten, Diana West and Dr. Peter Pry

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Was killing of Soleimani the right step for President Trump to take?
• The pitfalls of the Obama Administration’s Iran policy

(PART TWO):

• Were the January 7 attacks by Iran an act of saving face?
• Will the Iranian regime ever be at peace with the US?
• How the media and democrats are acting on behalf of the Mullahs

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• Is Iran done with their retaliatory attacks?
• How trustworthy is American intelligence?
• How Soleimani’s death impacts the safety of American citizens

DR. PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA:

• Implications of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on the US electrical grid
• A historic milestone against the EMP war
• The threat EMP poses on the United States

With Dr. Harold Rhode

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Understanding the complexities of Iran’s society
• How does Soleimani’s death impact the citizens of Iran?
• What motivates Iran’s Ayatollahs?

(PART TWO):

• Differences in how the Iranian government and citizens view the death of Soleimani
• How will Iran respond to the death of Soleimani?
• How the US compares to Iran in terms of retaliatory strength

(PART THREE):

• How will Iran calculate their next steps?
• What will happen if the US pulls its troops out of Iraq?
• How the killing of Soleimani affects ISIS in the region

 (PART FOUR):

• What role does Israel play following the killing of Soleimani?
• How should the US act to maximize the deterrent on the Iranians?
• The need for a ‘loyal opposition’ in America

With Matt Brodsky, Claudia Rosett and Greg Scarlatiou

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Group, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center for Security Policy:

• Was Suleimani’s death warranted?
• Evidence reveals Suleimani’s plans for large-scale attacks against the US

(PART TWO):

• Dissecting the global aims of the Iranian leadership
• An overview of the anti-Iran protests in Iraq and Lebanon
• Tehran’s persistent pursuit of a nuclear weapons program

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com, Blogs at “The Rosett Report” at PJ Media:

• Why the decision to assassinate Suleimani was just
• Are US vital interests being shaped by Suleimani’s demise?
• How the active undermining of Trump emboldens our enemies

GREG SCARLATIOU, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea:

How Suleimani’s death is being perceived in Pyongyang

• Kim Jong-un threatens US with “Christmas surprise”
• The state of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal

With Douglas Feith

DOUGLAS FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2001-2005):

• The significance of Soleimani’s assassination
• Why the IRGC was rightly designated a terrorist organization by the Trump administration
• Dangers of Iran’s terror proxies

(PART TWO):

• Have US economic sanctions on Iran been impactful?
• An overview of US policy toward Afghanistan
• Dissecting past ‘nation building’ policies

(PART THREE):

• The current state of US-Iran relations
• US intelligence claims Tehran currently planning attacks against Americans in the Middle East
• Is regime change in Iran necessary?

(PART FOUR):

• Implications of Tehran-Moscow-Beijing joint exercises
• What are the Russians up to in the Eastern Mediterranean?
• China’s predatory economic policies

With Shoshana Bryen

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center, Former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. Bryen was for 17 years author of the widely read and republished JINSA Reports:

• Consequences of Iran’s imperial overreach
• The evolution of Tehran’s aggression
• The dangers of Iranian control of localized militias

(PART TWO):

• What role is Turkey playing in the Middle East?
• Implications of Erdogan’s strategic ambitions
• The current state of play between Saudi Arabia and Iran

(PART THREE):

• Dissecting the anti-clerical riots in Iraq and Iran
• An overview of Israel’s relations with Gulf countries
• The current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

(PART FOUR):

• Has President Trump’s Iran policy been successful?
• Is a US-Israel Defense Pact necessary?

With Seth Cropsey

With Seth Cropsey

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in Reagan and Bush Administrations, Former principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Author of Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to do About It (August 2017):

• China continues to increase ship production
• The reality of the threat we face from the PLA at sea
• The evolution of the US-Beijing relationship

(PART TWO):

• Implications of the militarization of space
• Why we should be concerned with China’s advanced missile development
• An overview of Putin’s energy ambitions

(PART THREE):

• Dissecting Iran’s influence in the Middle East
• Dangers of the Tehran-Moscow-Beijing axis
• Are economic sanctions against Iran impactful?

(PART FOUR):

• The readiness of the US navy today
• Why US Navy must prioritize smaller ships

The Left's Contemptible Contempt for Us

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

For all its professed concern about people, the Left actually has nothing but contempt for them.  That helps explain the horrible things its various totalitarian leaders have perpetrated, including crushing repression, concentration camps, killing fields and manufactured famines.

Still, it’s shocking when Leftists are caught cynically using Big Lies to induce the innocent to conform and submit. 

Most recently, House Democrats repeatedly lied to secure the impeachment of Donald Trump. Notably, they said he had to be stopped immediately before he further violated the Constitution, corrupted the next election, endangered our children and compromised national security.

Now, though, Democrats are in no hurry to get the Senate to try and remove him. And they think we are stupid enough not to notice their bait-and-switch. A lot of Americans are likely next November to show Pelosi and Company what we think of them.

This is Frank Gaffney.