Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Steve Cook, David Satter

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

• The Islamic Center of Wichita’s efforts to host a Hamas-linked cleric
• Jihadist networks in place inside the US
• Iran’s ability to directly attack the west, as seen in the hacking of an upstate New York dam

(PART TWO):

• Tehran regime being allowed access to international financial markets despite previous sanctions
• ICANN agreement transferring important internet control functions to “international stake holders”
• Will the ongoing email scandal disqualify Hillary Clinton from the 2016 Presidential Race?
• Importance of the Guantanamo Bay facility for human intelligence capabilities

Rep. LEE ZELDIN (NY-1) Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the US Army’s 82^nd Airborne Division:

• More US concessions on the JCPOA
• Unilaterally giving up leverage to Iran without extracting concessions from the Mullahs
• Disconnect concerning the reality of proliferation at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington

STEVE COOK, President of the National Association of Assistant US Attorneys:

• Current sentencing reform legislation regarding non-violent offenders
• Inherent violence associated with drug trafficking
• Examples of murders at the hands of early release individuals
• Islamic radicalization taking place inside the world’s prisons

DAVID SATTER, author of the forthcoming “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin” (May 2016):

• Vladimir Putin’s tactics for dealing with enemies both domestic and abroad
• Information operations through media outlets like “Russia Today” and ”Sputnik”
• How Russian officials continue to manipulate their western counterparts

Dr. Harold Rhode, Fred Fleitz, Peter Huessy and Dr. Jane LeClair

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

• Turkish mosque opening in Lanham, Maryland
• Deal between Turkey and the EU
• Erdogan’s view on an Islamic caliphate 

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, National Security Advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz:

• Putin’s refusal to attend President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit
• Concerns over ISIS obtaining nuclear materials
• Will Iran gain access to US financial markets?

PETER HUESSY, President of Geostrategic Analysis:

• Nuclear Security Summit kicking off today in Washington, D.C.
• Iran and North Korea to use terrorist groups for proxy nuclear attacks against the US?
• China modernizing its ICBMs and building underground tunnels to hide them
• Reducing the US nuclear deterrent 

Dr. JANE LeCLAIR, Chief Operating Officer at the National Cybersecurity Institute of Excelsior College (Washington, D.C.):

• Cybersecurity explained in terms of top government organizations all the way down to the average internet user
• Dangers of hackers tampering with US critical infrastructure
• Training a new generation of cyber defenders for future threats
• Can government acquire and retain the same cyber talent as private industry?

Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Diana West, Ben Weingarten and Jim Hanson

Dr. JONATHAN SPYER, Director of the Rubin Center for International Affairs at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), Fellow at the Middle East Forum:

• Israel’s effective navigation of the Syrian civil war
• Is Obama’s policy for deposing Assad feasible?
• Prescriptions for the West to combat the global Jihad 

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up,” nationally syndicated columnist:

• Insights from the Belgium attacks
• Likelihood of Turkey joining the European Union
• Hillary Clinton’s meeting with MPAC leaders

BEN WEINGARTEN, founder and CEO of Change Up Media LLC, Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute:

• NYPD Intelligence Unit's “Radicalization in the West” study buried
• Jihadist radicalization taking place in U.S. prisons 

JIM HANSON, Executive VP of the Center for Security Policy, National Security Advisor to Senator Ted Cruz:

• NYPD Commissioner’s fallacy that counterterrorism cannot use ideology
• How civilization jihadists neuter American law enforcement
• Ted Cruz’s policy to prevent “no-go” zones similar to Molenbeek, Brussels
• Iranians charged with hacking into a NY dam

Pete Hoekstra, Elaine Donnelly, Andy McCarthy and Kyle Shideler

PETE HOEKSTRA, Shillman Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, author of “Architects of Disaster: The Destruction of Libya:”

• New study on fatalities from terrorist attacks
• “No-go” zones in Europe
• U.S. deficiencies in human intelligence gathering

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness:

• Status of women serving in the military
• Results of empirical evidence from Marines Corps test of women in the combat units
• Sensitivity training in the Armed Forces

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor, National Review Online contributing editor:

• NYPD Commissioner Bratton’s comments on modern counterterrorism
• Muslim Brotherhood’s infrastructure in the US
• Loretta Lynch’s stonewalling of FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Center for Security Policy’s Threat Information Office:

• Mike Pompeo’s investigation into the Islamic Society of Wichita
• CAIR’s links to Hamas
• Follies of looking to the life of Muhammad to prevent radicalization 

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, Justin Johnson, Gordon Chang and Jim Simpson

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

• Ongoing anti-terror operations in Brussels
• Combating extremism through ideology
• Hillary Clinton’s meeting with Islamist group, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

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

• Current condition of the U.S. Military
• Legislative piece to restoring defense capabilities
• Heritage’s guide for rebuilding defensive and offensive competence in the U.S. Armed Forces 

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” Forbes.com columnist:

• American military budget compared with China’s official numbers
• Relationship between PLA and President Xi Jinping
• Status of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative
• Improvements in the North Korean missile program

JIM SIMPSON, author of “The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America”:

• Actual number of Syrian refugees in the U.S.
• President Obama's New Americans Initiative
• Alliance between hard-left radicals and Islamist supremacists

Daniel Horowitz

DANIEL HOROWITZ, senior editor at Conservative Review:

• Social transformation without representation
• Immigration and demographic issues in Europe coming to the US
• Private contractors benefitting financially from refugee resettlement

(PART TWO):

• Implementing an immigration policy hostile to US interests
• A critique of the UN’s refugee pool and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation

(PART THREE):

• Judicial stealing away influence from Congress concerning immigration
• “Common Cause” in immigration

(PART FOUR):

• Political parties endangering true representative government
• Obama unwinding fifty years of international policy
• Malfeasance in closing Guantanamo Bay

(PART FIVE):

• Ongoing consequences of the Iran nuclear deal
• Liberal courts as the final arbiter?
• TPP endangering sovereignty

Michel Gurfinkiel

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum:

• What we now know about the terrorist attacks in Belgium
• Connection between attacks in Paris and Brussels

(PART TWO):

• Salah Abdeslam’s background
• Difference between jihadist and fundamentalist versions of Islam

(PART THREE):

• End goal of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Consequence of mass Muslim migration in Europe

(PART FOUR):

• Failure of intellectual and political elites to address the threat the Muslim Brotherhood poses to the West
• Global view of Islamist radicals

(PART FIVE):

• Leaders of the Muslim world and their views concerning Shariah law
• European attitudes concerning anti-Semitism 
• Using the ‘Israeli Model’ of counterterrorism

Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Clare Lopez, Ana Quintana and Rosemary Jenks

Amb. YORAM ETTINGER, Executive Director of “A Second Thought: A U.S.-Israel Initiative,” former Minister of Congressional Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

• Today’s terrorist attacks in Brussels
• Critiques of US-Israel relations at AIPAC
• Importance of the alliance between the American people and Israel

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President of Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA operations officer:

• How the arrest of Paris terrorist Salah Abdelslam factors into the Belgium attacks
• Non-assimilated sharia-adherent immigrant communities becoming jihadist hotbeds for recruiting
• Radical leftists and Islamists working together in America 

ANA QUINTANA, Policy Analyst for Latin America and the Western Hemisphere at the Heritage Foundation:

• Irony of President Obama addressing terrorism in Cuba
• Propaganda opportunities provided by Obama for the Castros
• Implications of lifting the embargo on the Havana regime 

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

• What Europe can teach us about immigration policy
• Problematic nature of open borders
• US House Judiciary Committee’s bill addressing Syrian refugees

Joseph Connor, Mark Krikorian, Gordon Chang and Ryan Maur

JOSEPH CONNOR, Brietbart.com and Redstate.com contributor, co-author of “The New Founders”:

• How President Obama’s visit to Cuba props up the Castro regime
• Personal effect of the reign of the Castro's 

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director at the Center for Immigration Studies, author of “How Obama is Transforming America Through Immigration”:

• Problems associated with bringing Gitmo detainees to the US 
• Likelihood of radical attorneys attempting to free Gitmo prisoners
• Would freed detainees be eligible for welfare benefits?

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

• North Korea’s latest provocative behavior
• Does Pyonyang have the ability to deliver on the threats to Manhattan?
• Chinese aggression near Indonesia
• Why Scarborough Island is vital 

RYAN MAURO, National Security analyst for the Clarion Project, former intelligence analyst and director of the Asymmetrical Warfare and Intelligence Center:

• What can Europe forecast for the U.S.
• Danger the Syrian refugees pose to Europe and the US
• Paris attacks ringleader caught in Brussels
• Result of the State Department designation of Christian genocide in Iraq

Guy Taylor, Dr. J. Michael Waller, Adm. James “Ace” Lyons and Fred Fleitz

GUY TAYLOR, National Security Team Leader at the Washington Times:

• Designation of Islamic State genocide against Christians and other minorities
• Intelligence leak from ISIS

Dr. J. MICHAEL WALLER, Former Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Institute, Senior writer at the American Media Institute:

• Putin’s achievements in Syria
• Turkey’s prospects for NATO membership
• Complications of an independent Kurdish movement
• Iranian involvement in Iraq

Adm. JAMES “ACE” LYONS, former Commander US Pacific Fleet, former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations:

• How Russia’s financial troubles affected Putin’s withdrawal from Syria
• What is next for the Assad regime and what does it mean for Israel?
• Iran’s nefarious actions within the region

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

• The latest flaw in the JCPOA
• Did Putin accomplish his objectives in Syria?
• Iranian space launch vehicle (SLV) test