Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Russ Dallen, Diana West, Dr. Peter Pry and Ken Timmerman

RUSS DALLEN, President & Editor in Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of the international investment bank, Caracas Capital Markets, Served as President of Venezuela’s “The Daily Journal”:

• Current developments in Venezuela
• How Maduro has maintained control of Caracas
• Can the U.S. better support Guaido’s efforts?

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:

• Dissecting the anti-Trump conspiracy
• Should the whistleblower’s identity be revealed?
• An overview of the Ukrainian deflection

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, Newest Book: Blackout Wars:

• PG&E’s failures to invest in public safety
• Lessons to be learned from the blackout in California
• Has President Trump’s EMP Executive Order been implemented?

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:

• President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria
• Analyzing the Kurdish question
• Can we rely on Erdogan to keep a lid on ISIS?
• The persecution of Christians in northern Syria

With Robert Charles, Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Andy Bostom

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:

• Dissecting recent developments in the impeachment inquiry
• The presence of the ‘deep-state’ today

SAM FADDIS, 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):

• Should the identity of the whistleblower be revealed?
• The current state of the anti-Trump conspiracy
• 40^th anniversary of Tehran hostage crisis
• Various challenges to U.S. domestic security

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):

• Rising human rights violations in China
• Why China poses an existential threat to the U.S.
• An overview of the recent ASEAN meeting in Thailand
• Consequences of the Seoul-Tokyo dispute

ANDY BOSTOM, Author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), Author of The Legacy of Antisemitism (2008), Author of Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (2012), Author of Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran (2014):

• Iran’s unwavering hostility to religious minorities
• How Erdogan perpetuates anti-Semitism in Turkey
• 40^th anniversary of Tehran hostage crisis

With David Goldman, Robert Spencer, Seth Cropsey and Joel Gilbert

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

• Why we are amidst a constitutional crisis
• Prospects of today’s impeachment hearing
• Implications of the ‘deep-state’ at work

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• The impact of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
• What do we know about Abdullah Qardash?
• Why we should be concerned with Nigeria

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):

• Consequences of Russia’s emergence as a major competitor
• The current state of U.S. naval power
• Are big deck carries still significant to today’s missions?

JOEL GILBERT, Filmmaker, Latest film: The Trayvon Hoax, Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America:

• The politicization of the racism divide in America

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):

• Dissecting current events in Syria
• Kurds have been America’s strategic ally for decades
• The real impact of Trump’s economic sanctions on Turkey

(PART TWO):

• Why Turkey can no longer be considered a U.S. ally
• The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
• How Erdogan has encouraged an ISIS resurgence

(PART THREE):

• Dangers of the IRGC’s ambitions
• The ideological drivers of the Iranian regime
• Analyzing the true impact of Iran’s proxies

(PART FOUR):

• What is America’s role in the Middle East?
• The history of Russian influence in the MENA region
• Why Turkey should be removed from NATO

With Amanda Bowman, Kevin Freeman and Jenny Beth Martin

AMANDA BOWMAN, Founder of the Anglosphere Society:

• Alarming trends in the U.S. and Europe regarding religious discrimination
• The persecution of Christians around the world
• Is Western civilization in danger?

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”:

• Dangers of Wall Street investing U.S. funds in Chinese companies
• Why the Thrift Savings Plan is detrimental to U.S. national security
• An overview of Hunter Biden’s corruptive financial practices
• How China wages unrestricted warfare against the U.S.

JENNY BETH MARTIN, Co-Founder of the Tea Party Patriots, Author of Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution (2012):

• Is Trump leading our country in the right direction?
• What is the Graham Resolution?
• Dissecting the current state of the anti-Trump conspiracy

(PART TWO):

• Tech giants continue to censor conservative groups
• 2020 Democrats and the gun control agenda
• Why our 1^st and 2^nd amendments are so significant

With Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and Gordon Chang

 ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF, Adviser to the Board, Burgerbewegung Pax Europa (a German human rights non-governmental organization):

• Implications of Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• Suppression of freedom in Iran
• The imposition of Sharia in the west

(PART TWO):

• Austria’s speech censorship
• What is the “right to not be offended?”
• Implications of European restrictions for the United States

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):

• Trump administration negotiating ‘phase 1 trade deal’ with China
• Dissecting Beijing’s negotiation strategy at this point
• Serious dangers of the Thrift-Savings Plan

(PART TWO):

• An overview of China’s totalitarian mistreatment of its own minorities
• Allegations of organ harvesting in Beijing at the hands of the CCP
• Corruption in Moon Jae-In’s government

With Roger Robinson

ROGER ROBINSON, Co-Founded and presently Chairs the Prague Security Studies Group, President and CEO of RWR: 

• Important economic components of Reagan’s policy
• How Western governments enabled Soviet totalitarianism

(PART TWO):

• How China and Russia use enterprise as power projection vehicles
• Database of every transaction between Russia and China worldwide
• S. stock-market underwriting companies it is illegal to do business with

 

(PART THREE):

• Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI)
• American underwriting of thermonuclear weapons
• How Beijing avoids auditing that American firms are subjected to

(PART FOUR):

• Thrift Savings Plan – how American military and government employees’ retirement dollars are funding weapons systems targeting them
• What will it take for the TSP board to reverse the decision?

The Anti-Trump Conspiracy Probe Goes Criminal

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

For years now, it’s been obvious that the formidable resources of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been employed against Donald Trump, his campaign, transition and presidency. Now, the evidence has triggered a criminal investigation. 

That means Attorney General William Barr and Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham are exploring with sworn testimony before a federal grand jury whether senior Obama administration officials actually acted illegally. If the grand jurors agree, indictments and trials of at least some of those individuals could finally be forthcoming.

The prospect that there may really be “equal justice under the law” will be heartening to many. It will also inspire new, frenzied opposition aimed at undermining the investigation’s credibility, distracting those responsible and deflecting public attention to the latest effort to take out Mr. Trump in the House of Representatives.

Godspeed, Messrs. Barr and Durham.

This is Frank Gaffney.

 

With Zach Vorhies

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ZACH VORHIES, Whistleblower, former Senior Software Engineer at Youtube and Google:

• Google’s business model – how a free service is a $900 billion company

(PART TWO):

• What it’s like to work at Google
• “Implicit association” test
• Political environment for employees

(PART THREE):

• Dramatic shift after the 2016 election
• Suppression of “fake news”
• Machine Learning Fairness

(PART FOUR):

• Google influence in the 2020 election
• Suppression of Tulsi Gabbard
• Chinese access to Artificial Intelligence Superweapon

With Diana West, Bill Marshall, Rick Fisher and Jessica Vaughan

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 anti-Democratic undertones of the anti-Trump conspiracy
• Prospects of the impeachment inquiry
• The presence of the ‘deep-state’ in U.S. institutions

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:

• Dissecting the recent Ukraine revelations
• Implications of the effort to squeeze Paul Manafort
• Hunter Biden’s troubling Ukraine connection
• Is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States impactful?

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, Former Consultant on PLA issues for the Congressionally chartered U.S. China Security and Economic Review Commission:

• Xi Jinping’s dangerous aims for Taiwan
• How the Chinese Communist Party poses a significance threat to U.S. security
• Consequences of China’s extensive military buildup

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department where she served in Belgium and Trinidad & Tobago:

• Who was the H Visa originally designed for?
• An overview of the Relief Act
• Dangers of the proliferation of sanctuary policies