Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

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

With Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons

ADMIRAL JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS, Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world, Served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations:

• The current adversarial nature of China
• Implications of China’s maritime imperialism 

(PART TWO):

• China’s massive military buildup
• China’s enabling of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal

(PART THREE):

• China’s non-kinetic warfare tactics against the US
• Implications of China’s control of the Panama Canal

(PART FOUR):

• The threat Iran poses to the US and our allies
• Why we must improve our military forces

With Richard Pollock, Benjamin Weingarten, Michel Gurfinkiel and Diana West

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Hillary Clinton’s exposing of classified information
• The politicization of the FBI
• Details on the House IT scandal

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, His writing has appeared at TheFederalist.com City Journal and Conservative Review, 2015 Publius Fellow to the Claremont Institute:

• Details on alleged spy working for Sen. Feinstein
• Why we must hold government officials accountable

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, a conservative think-tank in France, Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum, Editor in Chief of Valeurs Actuelles (Paris)- a French conservative newsweekly:

• Sharia supremacism in France
• The real threat to Western civilization 

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

• Implications of the Islamic- Saudi Academy
• Why the vetting of political candidates is so significant

With Gal Luft, Kevin Freeman and Michael Cutler

GAL LUFT, Co-Director of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security, Senior Advisor to the Energy Security Council:

• Energy security in the United States
• Iran threatens to block off Persian Gulf oil supply to world
• Importance of diversifying fuel supply

(PART TWO):

• Production of a methanol capable vehicle
• The increasingly aggressive assault on the dollar

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:

• Implications of the globalist assault against the US dollar
• Why the death of the current monetary system is inevitable
• Canada and the NAFTA deal 

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:

• Insights on the death of Mollie Tibbetts
• Why we must enforce our border security
• Iran’s influence in Venezuela

With Jennifer Dyer, Robert Charles, Gordon Chang and Sean Bigley

JENNIFER DYER, Retired Naval Intelligence Officer:

• Details on the echo chamber against Trump
• The true origins of the Mueller investigation launch 

ROBERT CHRLES, 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:

• Dangers of leaving US border insecure
• Why Iran remains a serious concern for the US
• Hezbollah terror cells in the United States

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

• Consequences of China’s intellectual property theft
• Current status of ongoing trade war with China
• Pompeo to visit North Korea for extended denuclearization talks

SEAN BIGLEY, Partner, Bigly Ranish, LLP – Federal Security Clearance Defense Firm:

• Miscarriage of justice regarding Adam Lovinger
• Why personnel is policy
• Implications of politicizing security clearances

With Andrew Arthur, Rick Fisher, Bill Gertz and David Goldman

ANDREW ARTHUR, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The current immigration debate
• Significance of enforcing US border security

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:

• The Chinese Military Power Volumes Assessment
• How China seeks to displace the US
• What nuclear advancements should we be most concerned about?

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 nuclear arsenal buildup
• The role influence operations are playing in US elections

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

• China’s dependence on dual-use technologies
• Implications of Turkey’s agenda

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