Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Russ Dallen, Joe diGenova, Diana West and Dr. Mark Schneider

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 state of Venezuela
• Consequences of hyper-inflation in Venezuela
• How to hold the Maduro regime accountable 

JOE diGENOVA, Founding Partner of the Washington, D.C. Law Firm of  diGenova & Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee, Former Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees:

• Convictions of Manafort and Cohen
• Why we must make security secure again
• Imran Awan walks free 

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net:

• Roots of progressive socialism in the US
• Dangers of the red-green axis
• John Brennan’s consequential conduct

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

• Russia’s massive nuclear buildup
• INF Treaty violations

With Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Luke Rosiak, Sam Faddis and Kevin Freeman

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:

• Pakistan’s aims for the US and Afghanistan
• Can we rely on Pakistan?
• Pakistani Intelligence Services in the US?

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Details on the House IT scandal
• What we know about Imran Awan
• Have Republicans been complicit in cover up?

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):

• How was John Brennan granted a clearance?
• Is our security apparatus broken?
• The state of human intelligence in the CIA

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

• Is the unraveling of the Chinese economy looming?
• Implications of China’s overseas initiatives
• Latest round of sanctions against Russia

 

 

With Ingrid Carlqvist, Brad Johnson, Gordon Chang and Amb. Yoram Ettinger

INGRID CARLQVIST, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Journalist and Author based in Sweden, Editor in Chief of Dispatch International:

• Troubling developments in Sweden
• The rise of Alternative for Sweden political party

BRAD JOHNSON, Former CIA Station Chief:

• Should Brennan have been granted a clearance in the first place?
• Consequences of using clearances as a political tool
• Reliability of host-government intelligence collaborations 

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

• Why the US should make public declaration regarding Taiwan
• The current balance of power in Asia

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators:

• The current state of play Iran
• Erdogan’s long-term goals for Turkey

With Andy Bostom

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):

• Implications of the background and conduct of John Brennan 

(PART TWO):

• Rising danger of the Red-Green Axis
• How Brennan justifies totalitarian ideologies

(PART THREE):

• Should Brennan be entrusted with access to classified intelligence?
• Political warfare technique of deflection 

(PART FOUR):

• Significance of background checks/security clearances

With Vladimir Bukovsky

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY, Dissident, Author and Activist, New Book to be published in English soon, Judgement in Moscow, Member of the International Advisory Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Neurophysiologist, Senior fellow of the CATO Institute:

• Repression under the Soviet regime
• Treatment of dissidents in Soviet Union

(PART TWO):

• The collapse of the Soviet Union
• The true use of psychiatric institutions under Soviet regime 

(PART THREE):

• The communist regime’s unconstitutional methods of rule
• Transfer of power in Russia under Putin 

(PART FOUR):

• How the West perceived stolen Soviet documents
• The seduction of socialism in our time
• The cooperation between Western left and communists

With Hans Von Spakovsky, Dr. Stephen Blank, Bill Gertz and David Goldman

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 Paul Manafort prosecution
• Consequences of the politicization of US intelligence agencies

DR. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Former Professor at the US Army War College:

• Congress reaches deal on Russia sanctions
• Russia’s chemical weapons involvement in UK
• Current state of US-Russia relations 

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):

• President Trump’s Space Force proposal
• Provisions in the Defense Authorization Bill 

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

• Update on Turkey’s economy
• China’s debt-trap diplomacy

With Dinesh D'Souza

DINESH D'SOUZA, #1 New York Times Bestselling author several times, Award-winning filmmaker, Latest film, Death of a Nation, in theatres now:

• New film Death of a Nation
• The Left’s war against President Trump

(PART TWO):

• The significance of ‘the big lie?’
• The true roots of the Left
• Where do fascism and Nazism fall on the political spectrum? 

(PART THREE):

• Historical significance of Nixon’s southern strategy
• The illiberalism of the Sharia doctrine 

(PART FOUR):

• 2018 midterm elections  
• Consequences of the rising ‘red-green’ axis
• The concept of nationalist-socialism in the US

With Diana West, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Daniel Horowitz, Bill Marshall

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

• The rise of the ‘red-green’ wave
• Implications of recent election results
• Dangers of censorship in New Zealand

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:

• Updates on the China- Pakistan economic corridor
• The Chinese debt-trap strategy

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at The Conservative Review, Author of “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz,” Former Policy Director for the Madison Project:

• Long-term implications of DACA
• Why district courts should be kept out of immigration policy
• Why is Trump reluctant to veto legislation?

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Special relationship between Orr and Steele
• Dangers of obstructionism by US intelligence agencies

With Russ Dallen, Kevin Freeman, Tony Badran and Rowan Scarborough

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”:

• Significance of assassination attempt on Maduro
• Consequences of rapidly increasing inflation in Venezuela
• Recent inauguration in Colombia 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013), Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (2012), Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com,Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Lessons to be learned from Iran and Venezuela
• Why socialism always fails
• President Trump imposes sanctions on Iran

TONY BADRAN, Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Columnist and Levant Analyst for Tablet Magazine:

• Iran’s two-front strategy against Israel
• What is Iran up to in the Golan Heights?
• The current state of the Assad regime 

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times, Author of “Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander,” Author of “Sabotage: America’s Enemies Within the CIA:

• New ‘revelations’ on Trump tower meeting?
• Implications of Adam Schiff’s leaks throughout the year

With Gordon Chang, Matt Brodsky, Dakota Wood and Dan Gallington

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, the Daily Beast Contributor, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• Secretary Pompeo visits Southeast Asia
• Growing unease regarding North Korea

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Editor at Wikistrat, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center:

• President Trump re-imposes sanctions in Iran
• Implications of Syrian scientist assassination

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy, Served two decades in USMC, Co-Authored The 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength:

• The aging of the US Military
• Why we must invest in space force

DAN 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:

• What is going on with ‘Russia collusion’ narrative
• Historical precedent of election meddling
• Revelations regarding Sen. Feinstein’s driver