Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Daniel Gallington, Rachelle Peterson and Daniel Horowitz

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Dissecting the two articles of impeachment
• Debunking the Democrat’s impeachment narrative
• The current state of the anti-Trump conspiracy

(PART TWO)

• Analyzing the efforts to mislead the FISA court
• An overview of the findings in the recently released IG report
• Politicization of US intelligence agencies

RACHELLE PETERSON, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars, Policy Advisor for the Heartland Institute:

• Dangers of Confucius Institutes on US college campuses
• China continues to wage ideological warfare against the US
• What DOD policies have led to the closure of Confucius institutes?

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of its “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz, Former Policy Director for the Madison Project, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• President Trump passes annual Omnibus Bill
• Implications of the current US amnesty policy
• Consequences of the increase of crime, violence and homelessness in America

With Peter Huessy, Kevin Freeman, Stephen Blank and Diana West

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• President Trump’s efforts to denuclearize North Korea
• How China enables Pyongyang’s aggression
• Why fracturing the US-Japan-South Korea relationship is harmful

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• Implications of Beijing’s intellectual property theft
• The reality of Xi Jinping’s global ambitions
• The current state of the US-China trade deal

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 Years of Experience as a professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• Dissecting the recent NATO summit meeting
• Why Putin continues to aggressively threaten the West
• The US needs a comprehensive counter-information policy

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:

• The significance of the ideological component of the impeachment process
• The role the State Department has been playing in the Ukraine affair

With Chanel Rion, Bill Marshall and Kyle Shideler

CHANEL RION, Investigative reporter at One America News Network:

• Dismantling the impeachment narrative
• OANN releases three-part in depth impeachment series
• Watch Part I, Part II and Part III here

(PART TWO):

• Dissecting Rudy Giuliani’s role as Trump’s lawyer
• An overview of DNC-Ukrainian collusion
• How Democrats abuse language to perpetuate their agenda

BILL MARSHALL, Has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, the private sector, and the non-profit sector for 30 years, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Is James Comey complicit in violations of Obama’s DOJ?
• Federal court hearing on Awan brothers
• The politicization of U.S. intelligence agencies

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of CounterIslamist.org, Former Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy, Former Director of Research and Communications at the Endowment for Middle East Truth:

• What is the ‘No Ban Act’?
• Implications of Islamic groups fighting Trump’s travel moratorium
• Dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in America

With Michael Cutler, Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Claudia Rosett

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

• The impact of Pensacola naval air station attack
• Why we must secure the U.S. southern border
• How U.S. vetting system is fatally flawed

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, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• Dissecting the recently released IG report
• Consequences of the impeachment show trials

GORDAN 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):

• Pending phase 1 agreement with Beijing
• An overview of President Trump’s North Korea policy
• How U.S. investors are underwriting China’s economy

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com:

• The current state of Hong Kong protests
• Implications of China’s proposed national security provision

With Hans Von Spakovsky, Diana West and Robert Charles

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Former Member of the Federal Election Commission:

• The Judiciary Committee’s recommends articles of impeachment
• Is the evidentiary basis for impeachment weak?
• Why ‘executive privilege’ cannot be dismissed

(PART TWO):

• What is Nancy Pelosi’s end goal with impeachment process?
• Dissecting the recently released IG report

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:

• An overview of impeachment ‘show trials’
• Implications of the politicization of U.S. intelligence agencies

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:

• Prospects of House Judiciary Committee’s findings
• Has Trump really jeopardized U.S. national security in Ukraine call?
• The reality of the Trump administration’s strong Ukraine policy

With Stephen Young

STEPHEN YOUNG, Global Executive Director of Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism, Author of Moral Capitalism and The Road to Moral Capitalism and The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967 – 1972, Served as Assistant Dean at the Harvard law School:

• Lessons to be learned from U.S. failures in Vietnam
• What was the Civil Operations and Rural Development Support program in Vietnam?

(PART TWO):

• Why the lack of a CORDS program has contributed to Afghanistan debacle
• Implications of turning Afghanistan over to the Taliban
• How Vietnam serves as a counter-insurgency model for future conflict

(PART THREE):

• Should Trump engage in Taliban talks?
• Why the U.S. must beware of Xi Jinping’s global ambitions
• Prospects of a productive U.S.-Taliban peace deal

(PART FOUR):

• Can successful Vietnam policies be applied to the current situation in Afghanistan?

With Ilya Feoktistov

ILYA FEOKTISTOV, Executive Director, Americans for Peace and Tolerance

Author of Terror in the Cradle of Liberty: How Boston Became a Center for Islamic Extremism out November 19, 2019:

• The nature of radicalization in Boston
• What is “civilizational jihad”?
• Dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood’s presence in America

(PART TWO);

• An overview of the Boston marathon bombing
• The significance of our elected officials understanding the threat we are facing

(PART TWO):

• How elected officials in Boston enable radicalization
• Implications of the agendas of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

(PART FOUR):

• The rise of anti-Semitism globally
• Faults of the leadership of the American Jewish community
• Recent terror attack at Pensacola naval base

With Robert Spalding

ROBERT SPALDING, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept (Avaliable October 1, 2019), Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Former Military Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, Former Chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Former Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to China in Beijing, China, Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council:

• Consequences of China’s psychological warfare operations
• Implications of America’s historic policy of engagement
• The grave threat China poses to U.S. national interests

(PART TWO):

• Is Jeff Bezos’ critique of big tech accurate?
• Dissecting the challenge of innovation regarding Beijing
• Why big tech cannot ignore national defense

(PART THREE):

• The current state of Huawei
• Why the U.S. must build an encrypted and secure 5G network
• The dangers of China acquiring quantum supremacy

With John Rossomando, Dr. Mark Schneider, Grant Newsham and Dr. Peter Pry

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• An overview of the Faith Based Community Safety and Security Symposium
• Dangers of Muslim Brotherhood front organizations
• Why Erdogan can no longer be considered a U.S. ally

DR. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy:

• What was Thunder 19?
• Why Putin’s role in Russia’s strategic nuclear exercises are so unique
• Why we must consider Russia’s history of non-compliance
• Implications of the Moscow-Beijing modernization efforts

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies:

• Chinese psychological operations campaign
• Why Australia now understands the threat Xi Jinping poses
• Consequences of Beijing’s massive weapons buildup

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:

• The significance of Trump’s EMP Executive Order
• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid
• How national blackouts would devastate U.S. population

With Sam Faddis

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, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• Hezbollah’s operations inside the U.S.
• How active are Hezbollah cells in America?

(PART TWO)

• The shortcomings of a law enforcement approach to dealing with foreign operatives
• Security implications of Hezbollah’s plotting in the U.S.
• Dissecting the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

(PART THREE):

• Dangers of the Red-Green Axis
• Implications of Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• An overview of recent impeachment hearings

(PART FOUR):

• The growing second amendment sanctuary movement
• Are we witnessing the fundamental transformation of the U.S.?