Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. VICKY HARTZLER (MO-4), Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in the House Armed Services Committee:

• HASC’s investigation of the Bowe Bergdahl-Taliban Five swap
• Dangers in bringing Gitmo detainees to the U.S.
• Constitutional rights for terror detainees in American prisons
• Inability of Obama to identify the enemy

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

• Recap of last night’s national security debate among the 2016 GOP presidential candidates
• Transformation of the West through the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel honored as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year”

Rep. MIKE POMPEO (KS-4), Member of the House Intelligence Committee:

• Possible transfer of Gitmo detainees to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• The military and Congress’ opposition to Obama’s presidential overreach
• Latest regarding the IAEA’s investigation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program
• Update on the Benghazi scandal

Dr. DEREK SCISSORS, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Criticisms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• China’s aggressive behavior at the WTO
• Importance of China joining the world reserve currency
• Impact of increased interest rates on American trade in Asia

Rep. MIKE KELLY (PA-3), Member of the House Ways and Means Committee:

• Administration’s passage of a new climate change policy
• Economic and national security risks of Obama’s new climate plan
• China and India’s exclusion from pollution limits
• Importance of retaining American control of the Internet

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative Journalist at The Daily Caller:

• Weaknesses of Obama’s climate change deal
• Dangers of omitting China and India from international climate policy
• White House’s claim agreement isn’t legally binding
• Obama’s pledge of billions of dollars to the Green Climate Fund

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor, author of “Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment”:

• Donald Trump’s proposed plan to cease all immigration to the United States from Muslim-majority nations
• Challenges in screening refugees with possible extremist shariah views

ANDY McCARTHY, PART TWO:

• Agenda of the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights Unit
• Southern Poverty Law Center’s influence on the Justice Department
• Possible creation of a CVE Unit in DHS?

Dr. MARK MOYAR, Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Policy Initiative, author of “Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America”:

• Case studies in President George W. Bush’s efforts to implement democracy in post-war Iraq compared to Obama’s efforts in Libya and Yemen
• Finding reliable allies in conducting effective counterinsurgency operations
• Drone strikes failing to protect US interests in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Implications of a “retrenchment” foreign policy

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

• Latest regarding DHS whistle blower scandal
• Political correctness handicapping intelligence collection
• How local law enforcement can monitor jihadists in the U.S.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Fallacies of the administration’s new climate change policy
• China and India’s growing global pollution
• UN Security Council’s North Korea discussions

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Reality of the Iranian-American partnership
• Potential political strategy for Iraqi security
• Turkey’s growing Islamic influence
• Administration’s failure to take substantial steps to defeat ISIS

GORDON CHANG, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Prospects of China abiding by new climate regulations
• History of Beijing’s hostile actions following economic downturns
• North Korea’s partnership with Iran to obtain thermonuclear weapons

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Growing concerns of China’s nuclear submarine patrols
• Recent increase in Chinese ICBM testing
• Beijing’s role in missile technology proliferation
• North Korea’s failed submarine based missile test

Prof. TOM NICHOLS, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College:

• Defining modern terrorism
• Determining whether recent attacks are acts of terror

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

• DHS whistle blower’s claims that the government shut down active terrorist investigations
• Administration’s assistance to the Islamic Relief Worldwide organization

RUSS READ, National Security Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Abu Bakr al Baghdadi coming runner up in the Time “Person of the Year”
• Bringing to light the plight of Iraqi Christians
• San Bernardino shooters’ plan to attack since 2013
• Suspects tied to the attacks in San Bernardino and Garland, TX

Rep. PETER ROSKAM (IL-6), Member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi:

• New evidence showing Department of Defense assets near Benghazi
• Contact between State Department and DOD during the terror attacks
• Congressional steps taken to keep sanctions on Iran
• Democratic “buyers remorse” regarding the ObamaBomb Deal

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

• Possibility of Russia being an ally to the US
• Update on the relationship between Turkey and Russia
• Putin’s resentment towards NATO

Rep. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Vice Chairman of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee:

• Passage of the SHIELD Act on the House Floor
• Prospects of the bill reaching Obama’s desk and being signed

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

• Further evidence of Iran’s nuclear weapon program
• Obama administration’s willingness to continue with the nuclear agreement
• Steps Congress can take to prevent the Obamabomb Implementation Day
• Reports of North Korea’s development of thermonuclear weapons

ROBIN EUBANKS, author of “Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon”:

• Importance of the Every Student Succeed Act
• How the ESSA enshrines Common Core
• ESSA’s effect on strengthening Islamic education in America

DIANA WEST, syndicated columnist and author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

• Absurdities in labeling San Bernardino shooting as workplace violence
• Imposition on totalitarian control
• The consequences of the Istanbul Conference

DIANA WEST, PART TWO:

• How political correctness has blinded America to the enemy
• The Muslim-apologist agenda to accommodate sharia adherence

Dr. PETER NAVARRO, Professor at the Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine:

• Possibility of China perpetrating the next Pearl Harbor
• Fear of China attacking American territories
• Realities behind the importance of the TPP for national security

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist for El Universal and Veneconomia (Venezuela):

• How the Venezuelan election played out
• Chances of change in the Venezuelan political arena
• Possible U.S. response to challenge the Maduro regime
• Shifting political trend in Latin America

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Reaction to Donald Trump’s Muslim immigration policy
• Determining legal action against sharia
• Reality of Islamic sharia law

ANDY McCARTHY, PART TWO:

• Discrepancies between Obama’s and Islam experts’ understanding of sharia
• Analysis of the Center for Security Policy’s finding regarding sharia in the US
• Conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in the government
• AG Loretta Lynch’s promise to prosecute anyone who insults Islam

JIM HANSON, Executive VP at the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the US Army Special Forces:

• How the Center for Security Policy broke the identity of the male San Bernardino shooter
• Handling refugees who come from areas plagued by Islamic supremacist violence
• Threats posed by radical mosques here in the US

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• How the Venezuelan elections were fraud-free
• Maduro’s willingness to accept a democratically-elected parliament
• Does Argentina’s election foreshadow a change in Latin America?

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

• Current atmospheric conditions in Beijing and how it could affect US climate policy
• Prospects of changing China’s pollution standards
• Implications of importing Chinese-built cars
• Update regarding the OPM hack

Prof. MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy, and co- author of “Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism: How to Combat Modern Radical Islam”:

• Reaction to President Obama’s plan to defeat ISIS
• Understanding the ideological background of radical Islam
• Sharia’s role in motivating jihadists
• How Saudi Arabia has deceived the West

PART TWO:

• Relationship between the communist movement and the Muslim Brotherhood
• Soviet communism and Islamism’s political warfare strategy
• Muslim Brotherhood’s civilization jihad

PART THREE:

• Muslim Brotherhood penetration of President Bush’s administrations following 9/11
• Promotion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 2000s
• The political left’s assistance to civilization jihad
• Implications of submission to sharia in the U.S.

PART FOUR:

• DHS’s failure in vetting sharia adherent Muslims
• Political correctness preventing individuals from protecting the U.S.
• How to exploit the Muslim Brotherhood’s vulnerabilities
• Treating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

PART FIVE:

• Implications of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections
• President Maduro’s possible course of action
• Importance of Argentina’s presidential elections
• Possibility of Ecuador shifting away from the Left
• Dangers of mass Cuban migration

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

• Obama’s move to fully integrate women into front line fighting forces
• Ash Carter’s response to the Marine Corps’ finding regarding women in combat roles
• Possibility of women becoming draft eligible

ELAINE DONNELLY Part Two:

• Dunford’s absence from Ash Carter’s integration announcement
• What is the “Lean In” agenda?
• How integrated fighting forces can affect front-line cohesion
• Dangers of forcing women into combat units

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Russia’s most recent incursion into American air space
• Lack of American response to Russian aggression
• Obama’s opposition to banning weapons in space
• Administration’s appeasement of Beijing
• China’s claim that the OPM hack was not state sponsored

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• China’s perception of American strength
• Administration acknowledging that OPM hack was not state sponsored
• IAEA’s confirmation of past Iranian nuclear weapon development
• State Department’s admission that there is no nuclear deal with Tehran

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Daily Caller:

• Reactions to the media’s coverage of the San Bernardino terrorists
• Importance of ideology in the terror attacks
• Political correctness protecting jihadists
• Obama ignoring warning of accepting Syrian refugees

Rep. BARRY LOUDERMILK (GA-11), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee:

• Information regarding the San Bernardino attackers
• Advice for helping root out possible jihadists
• Radical mosques recruiting refugees in America
• Administration’s refugee vetting process
• House legislation regarding the security of the U.S. electric grid

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

• What is known following the San Bernardino terror attacks?
• Likelihood of an ISIS attack in the United States
• Muslim Brotherhood’s role in America through CAIR
• Significance of China’s newly opened naval base in Djibouti 

ERIC SCHMITT, National Security and Terrorism Journalist at The New York Times, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner:

• Reactions to the San Bernardino terror attacks
• ISIS’ demographic make up in the United States
• Possibility of vetting refugees coming from the Middle East and Europe
• Concern of radicalization of refugees once inside the United States

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

• Analysis of the IAEA’s report regarding Iran’s nuclear work
• Contradictions between the IAEA’s report and the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate
• Obama Administration’s national security fraud
• Hilary Clinton’s misguided strategy regarding ISIS

RUSS DALLEN, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Prospects of free and fair elections in Venezuela
• Maduro’s growing political violence campaign
• Role Venezuela’s economy is playing in the parliamentary elections
• Merit of placing Venezuela on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list