Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

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.

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