Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Matt O'Brien, Yoram Hazony, Dan Goure and Bill Gertz

With Matt O'Brien, Yoram Hazony, Dan Goure and Bill Gertz

MATT O’BRIEN, Director of Research for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Former Chief of the National Security Division within the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services:

• Significance of enforcing US border security
• Implications of recent attacks on ICE

YORAM HAZONY, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, Director of the John Templeton Foundation’s project in Jewish Philosophical Theology, Author of The Virtue of Nationalism (September 2018):

• The case for the Nation-State law in Israel
• Current threats Israel faces

DAN GOURE, Vice President of the Lexington Institute, Member of the 2001 Department of Defense transition team, Spent two years in the U.S. government as the director of the Office of Strategic Competitiveness in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• The completion of the Defense Appropriations Bill
• Should US privatize involvement in Afghanistan?

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• China’s predatory economics
• Trump’s National Security Strategy shifts focus to big power competition

With Russ Dallen, David Goldman, Daniel Gallington and Diana West

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”:

• Maduro’s upcoming trip to China
• The tragic downfall of Venezuela

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

• 25^th anniversary of Oslo accords
• The current state of ‘Middle East peace process’

DANIEL GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor at the 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 counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Dangers of Russia’s nuclear capabilities
• The significance of improving US missile defenses 

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• Implications of Bob Woodward’s book release
• Political warfare against President Trump

With Debra Burlingame

With Debra Burlingame

DEBRA BURLINGAME, Founding member, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Foundation board of directors;  Board member, National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation.:

• 9/11 17^th anniversary memorial at the Pentagon
• Vice President Pence’s remarks at memorial

(PART TWO):

• The hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77
• Why the Muslim Brotherhood must be designated a terrorist organization

(PART THREE):

• Differentiating the various forms of Jihad
• The story of the Ground Zero mosque 

(PART FOUR):

• Why recognizing the enemy is essential 
• Significance of certain interrogation techniques

With Tim Brown, George Rasley, Greg Scarlatiou and Kevin Freeman

TIM BROWN, Retired, 20-year FDNY firefighter, survivor of 2001 terrorist attack to the WTC, First responder to the 1993 terrorist attack on the WTC, Founding member of DHS, serving as special assistant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services During the Anthrax terrorist attacks in 2001-2002:

• 17^th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
• Why we must recognize radical Islamic terrorism

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• The significance of establishing who the enemy is
• Why the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a terrorist organization
• Defining the ‘deep state’

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

• Ominous developments on the Korean peninsula
• Prospects of a 2^nd summit 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Creator of Global Economic Warfare.com, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• The anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse
• China’s goal to replace US dollar as reserve currency

With Gordon Chang, Hans Von Spakovsky and Robert Charles

GORDON CHANG, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• North Korean foundation day parade excluded ICBMs
• Prospects of reunification
• The role of the South Korean military

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:

• Consequences of current political warfare operation against the President
• Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings 

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:

• Resistance internally in Trump White House
• Insubordinate subordinates in the Trump administration

With Dr. Peter Pry

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

• The strategic missile threat the US faces
• Why the recent missile defense roundtable was historic
• Dangers of Russia’s doomsday ‘Poseidon’ weapon

(PART TWO):

• China’s development of hyper-sonic warheads
• The threat we face from rogue nations
• The failure of the US to modernize and maintain a robust deterrent 

(PART THREE):

• Trump’s vision of a US space force
• The ideological attachment rogue nations have to nuclear power
• Are arms control agreements reliable? 

(PART FOUR):

• Enhancing the resiliency of our electric grid
• The reality of the EMP threat

With Hector Garza, Dale Wilcox, and James Conway

HECTOR GARZA, National Vice President, Border Patrol Union

• Current challenges to secure the border
• Significance of improving border infrastructure and technology
• Morale of border patrol agents

DALE WILCOX, Executive Director, Immigration Reform Law Institute:

• Implications of DACA
• Identity theft by illegal aliens 
• Exposing SPLC’s malpractice

JAMES CONWAY, Former FBI spokesperson, terrorism expert/Latin America focus:

• Global human smuggling networks in Central America
• Why we need to improve US border security
• Hezbollah cells in the United States

(PART TWO):

• Current state of counter-intelligence in the FBI
• Why we must improve vetting for government employees
• Importance of FBI to domestic security

With Diana West, Amb. Hank Cooper, David Goldman and Bill Gertz

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• John McCain’s true legacy
• Details on the ‘shredding party’ story

AMB. HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Senior Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Center:

• The call for space-based defenses
• Bipartisan consensus behind improved missile defense
• Details on the ‘Clementine’ program

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

• John McCain and the death of the establishment
• How Germany is gaining market share at American expense
• Why Pakistan should be considered a non-NATO ally

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• How China has weaponized missile technology
• How Google enables US adversaries to engage in information operations

With Gordon Chang, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Kevin Freeman and Matt Brodsky

GORDON CHANG, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• Russia and China have set a nuclear collision course with the US
• Current state of India-Pakistan relationship
• How China is challenging the US Navy

DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN, Author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution, Retired Colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve, Veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq:

• Why Pakistan should no longer be considered a US ally
• Implications of China’s ‘debt-trap diplomacy’

KEVIN FREEMAN,  Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack,” Author of “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder of Globaleconomiwarfare.com:

• Russia’s hidden economic warfare attacks
• Defining the Taylor Rule regarding inflation
• Current relations between Europeans and Iranians

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:

• Russia targets civilian structures in Syria
• Iran’s long-term ambitions in the Middle East

 

With Peter Huessy, Ryan Mauro, Bill Gertz and David Goldman

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:

• The magnitude of the Iranian threat
• Iranian collaboration in 9/11 attacks
• China’s long-term aims for Taiwan 

RYAN MAURO, National Security Analyst for the Clarion Project, Former strategic analyst for the Wikistrat consultancy, Former intelligence analyst and director of the Asymmetric Warfare and Intelligence Center:

• Details on New Mexico terrorist camp
• What we know about Jamaat al-Fuqra 

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

• Current state of US-China trade war
• China’s objectives to takeover Taiwan

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• United Front Work department in China
• Implications of Chinese spy staffed by Sen. Feinstein
• Sonic attacks on US diplomats