Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Mike Pompeo, Rick Manning, and Daniel Horowitz

REP. MIKE POMPEO (KS-4), Member of the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Iran’s expanding power and influence
• Secretary Kerry’s plan to share intelligence about Syria with Russia
• Edward Snowden

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• The immigration issues that should have been discussed at last night’s debate but were not

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Reason the Internet was developed to begin with
• Why Google is supportive of ICANN hand off to multinational entity

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review:

• Recap of last night’s debate
• How courts are overruling voter fraud

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, author, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy:

• Why “nuclear zero” is impossible
• China and Russia are constantly updating, researching new forms of nuclear armament

(PART TWO):

• Intellectual battles over nuclear deterrence
• De-alerting nuclear forces

(PART THREE):

• Why Putin uses military threats
• What “soft-power” does Russia have?

(PART FOUR):

• China considers U.S. paper tiger

(PART FIVE):

• Destabilization of Europe
• Why the US must not neglect nuclear deterrence

With Jody Westby, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, Shireen Qudosi and Dr. Stephen Blank

With Jody Westby, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, Shireen Qudosi and Dr. Stephen Blank

JODY WESTBY, CEO of Global Cyber Risk, LLC:

• What exactly is “ICANN” and how does it work?
• Why the US is caving to international pressure to globalize control of the Internet

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, DC:

• US Israel Memorandum of Understanding aid deal
• How JCPOA has affected Israel

SHIREEN QUDOSI, Senior Contributor at CounterJihad.com and The Present Danger:

• What is a Muslim reformer?
• History of the free thinkers in Islam, and why they were unsuccessful
• CVE dilutes the danger of Islamic terrorism

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Alliance between Russia and China has been in effect since Mao died
• Moscow is opening itself to investments with Beijing
• Japan is interested in reclaiming islands taken by Russia
• Sharing intelligence with Russia is foolish

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, and “Inside the Ring” columnist at the Washington Times:

• Joint island seizing war games by Russia and China
• U.S. is lagging behind on space warfare technology
• Deficiency in the FBI in regard to investigations surrounding Islamic extremism
• Snowden has released over 1.5 million secrets to the Russians

With Elaine Donnelly, Dr. Michael Rubin, and Fred Fleitz

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

• Senator John McCain’s “Draft America’s Daughters” Selective Service mandate

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Why Turkey should be considered a state sponsor of terrorism
• Obama’s failure to admit the reality of changing geopolitical landscapes

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Why Snowden is a traitor, not a hero
• Oliver Stone’s bogus portrayal of Edward Snowden

With Jim Simpson, Gordon Chang and Diana West

With Jim Simpson, Gordon Chang and Diana West

JIM SIMPSON, freelance Investigative Journalist, author of The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration, and the Agenda to Erase America:

• Refugee resettlement in the US is a money making scheme
• Immigrants from countries with ties to terrorism have gone missing

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• Chinese citizens’ lack of confidence in their economy
• Beijing investment in Silicon Valley
• India and Vietnam working together to curb Chinese ambition

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, and author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• London mayors comments about violence and terrorism
• The West’s regressive slide into a more medieval society

With Robert Spencer, Kevin Freeman and Peter Huessy

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of JihadWatch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and Front Page Magazine, author of The Complete Infidels Guide to Iran:

• Bombs in New York and New Jersey exact specifications outlined in an Al-Qaeda manual
• Mayor de Blasio’s willful blindness
• Absurdity of the administration attempting to define a religion
• Inaccurate reports of hate crimes

(PART TWO):

• Merkel’s huge loss in Germany’s recent elections
• Consequences of not listening to legitimate opposition to societal transformation
• What Hillary Clinton’s experience amounts to
• Huma Abedin as Secretary of State?

KEVIN FREEMAN, founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Obama’s determination to give control of the Internet to an international body
• Why zero interest rate policies are problematic
• The danger of North Korea with an EMP

PETER HUESSY, President and Founder of Geostrategic Analysis,

former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation:

• The illusion of nuclear arms control via the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• What a UN resolution on CTBT would do (or not do)
• How de-arming our nuclear missiles impacts our allies

With Tom Rogan, Clare Lopez and Tevi Troy

TOM ROGAN, columnist for National Review, Senior Fellow at the Steamboat Institute:

• Would attacks stop if ISIS had no territory?
• How the US could go about tearing down the black flag

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, and Former CIA clandestine officer.

• Terrorist attacks in New Jersey, New York and Minnesota
• Jihadists are motivated by sharia law

TEVI TROY, President of the American Health Policy Institute,

author of Shall We Wake the President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office:

• Which crises should a President handle personally?
• How the expectations of a Commander-in-Chief have changed throughout history

With Brooke Goldstein, Michael Cutler, Bill Gertz and Luis Fleischman

BROOKE GOLDSTEIN, Director of The Lawfare Project, and Founder and Director of the Children’s Rights Institute:

• Anti-BDS Resolution in New York City Council hearing
• How Islamists silence and intimidate dissenters

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• President Jimmy Carter’s role in US immigration issues
• Obama’s “New Americans”

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon and

Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times.

• Implications of North Korea’s nuclear testing
• Pyongyang is seeking foreign aid
• NSA proposal to increase offensive capabilities in cyber warfare

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• Sunni extremists entering the US through the Mexican border
• The desperate situation in Venezuela

With Fred Fleitz

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

 

Exemptions the Obamaadministration granted Iran under JPCOA

Who received the cashpayment to Iran?

IAEA inspections under thedeal

 

(PART TWO):

 

How advanced is theIranian nuclear program?

Why the Fordow militaryfacility poses a problem

Harassment of US Navy inthe Persian Gulf

How Iran is going to usethe cash payments

 

(PART THREE):

 

North Korea’s fifthnuclear launch

Beijing’s support ofPyongyang

Chinese militaryaggression

 

(PART FOUR):

 

Russian and Chinese jointnaval exercises practice “Island Seizing”

US Intelligence refocuseson Russia

 

(PART FIVE):

 

Cyber warfare threats

What should happen toEdward Snowden?

Comprehensive Nuclear ArmsBan Treaty

With Rick Manning, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Dan Cadman

With Rick Manning, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Dan Cadman

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Relinquishing the control of the internet to an international body
• Do tech companies support ICANN?

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, and Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• History of information warfare with Russia
• How terrorists exploit immigration policy

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of Center for Security Policy, former operator in the US Army Special Forces:

• Facebook blocks video depicting Islamist violence
• ICANN and national security
• How sharing intelligence with our enemies is problematic

DAN CADMAN, Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• DHS considering ending the use of private contractors for detaining illegal immigrants
• Why current criminal justice reform is problematic