Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

MICHAEL PREGENT, Senior Middle East Strategic Analyst and Consultant, Visiting Fellow at the National Defense University:

• President Obama’s plan for fighting ISIS
• The sectarian divide in Iraq
• Thoughts on the U.S. training of Iraqi military and Sunni tribes
• ISIS’s threat to Baghdad

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs:

• Effects that American troops can have assisting Iraqi security forces
• What must the United States do to defeat ISIS?
• The spread of Iranian militias in the Middle East

MICHAEL AUSLIN, Director of Japan Studies at AEI:

• What makes China's hack of OPM unique, and how much might the U.S. retaliate?
• How American taxpayers are inadvertently subsidizing the growth of the Chinese military
• Japan's burgeoning leadership role in Asia
• Finding an "Asia Policy," and not merely a "China Policy"

MAX ABRAHMS, Asst. Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University:

• The Administration’s reasoning for the deployment of troops to train Iraqi security forces
• Risks behind arming a Sunni force in Iraq
• Prospects of a partitioned Iraq

STEPHEN COUGHLIN, author of “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in Face of Jihad”:

PART ONE:

• The Islamic law of the land: Shariah
• The non-kinetic battle space of information operations
• Political, military, legal, and religious arms of Shariah
• Defining “Jihad”

PART TWO:

• Western misconceptions of the term “jihad”
• The Muslim Brotherhoods explicit purpose in America
• David Shipler’s Freedom of Speech
• An Islamist alignment with the Left

PART THREE:

• Examining the relationship between the Pentagon and the Islamic Society of North America
• The true reach of Muslim Brotherhood agents and affiliates within the US government 
• What does it mean if "you don’t know your enemy?”

PART FOUR:

• State Department mantra that “ISIS isn’t Islamic”
• U.N. Resolution 1618, Hillary Clinton, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
• Understanding the Interfaith Movement as a cultural, Marxist organization
• The Muslim Brotherhood's stealth jihad within the US

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Former Middle East Specialist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• Current situation in Turkey following last weekend’s parliamentary elections
• The problems of having Erdogan’s Islamist nation as a member of NATO
• Possible repercussions of creating an independent Kurdish state

DIANA WEST, author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• An explanation of the McCarthy-Welch affair
• The importance of pursuing truth in McCarthyism
• Trolling: the Kremlin’s attempt to subvert the internet

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• How Sen. Rand Paul's views on Guantanamo Bay differ from the other 2016 GOP hopefuls
• Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) recent comments regarding drone strikes against U.S. citizens

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era:

• Mass demonstrations in Venezuela against the Maduro government
• Ties of top Venezuelan officials to narco-traffickers and terrorist organizations
• Castro’s unreasonable demands concerning embargo reimbursement and Guantanamo Bay
• Why the normalization of relations with Cuba will only hurt US taxpayers

SEÁN McGURK, former Director of the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center:

• The known facts thus far about the alleged Chinese hack of OPM
• Why a federal government database is so susceptible to hacking
• The U.S.’s capacity for cyber counter-attacks

GORDON CHANG,  author of The Coming Collapse of China:

• Beijing’s recent cyber attack against the U.S.
• What motivated the Chinese government to commit such a complicated hack?
• The ongoing intelligence war between the U.S. and the PRC
• The Obama administration’s misguided policy with China

RICHARD PERLE, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and current resident fellow at AEI:

• Implications of Turkey’s shocking parliamentary election results
• The possibility of creating a sovereign Kurdish state

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:

• U.S. Border Patrol’s shifting duties due to the Obama administration’s immigration policy
• The Leftist-Islamist alliance
• Why the U.S. must use Europe’s immigration problem as a lesson to prevent similar issues at home
• Analyzing Hillary Clinton’s attempt to appeal to immigrants

Rep. PETE HOEKSTRA, former representative from Michigan’s 2^nd Congressional District:

• President Obama’s determination to  secure an Iran deal
• Secret diplomacy between Israel and Saudi Arabia
• Expiration of the NSA’s metadata program
• The end of the U.S. sanctions regime?

JIM HANSON, Senior Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, and former Army Special Operations:

• Latest developments concerning the Boston jihadist shooting
• Systemic issues arising from the President’s CVE program
• The Center for Security Policy’s “See Something, Say Something” initiative
• What forces are engineering the Hijra to America?

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Security threats to the upcoming G7 meeting in Germany
• Iran’s "secret" continuation of its nuclear program
• The Obama administration’s arrangement with the Muslim Brotherhood
• Threats posed by hackers to the United States’ military networks

JASON MATTHEWS, author of Palace of Treason and former CIA officer:

• Espionage in the new Cold War
• Making common cause with Russia
• The many faces of Vladimir Putin
• Russian involvement with China

Rep. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), member of the House Armed Services Committee, and former Army Ranger:

• A look at the vulnerabilities of the United States’ electrical grid
• The fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State
• American options to defeat the Islamic State and Iranian-backed militias

JOSÉ CÁRDENAS, former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID:

• The truth about economic and investment opportunities in Cuba
• The cost to the U.S. taxpayer of future U.S. Chamber of Commerce dealings in Havana
• Congressional opposition to continued concessions to the Castro regime

Rep. MIKE FITZPATRICK (PA-8), Chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus:

• An overview of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine
• Is Putin likely to invade Ukraine?
• The role fracking can play in reducing European dependence on Russian energy
• New legislation aimed at cutting financing to terrorist organizations

FRED FLEITZ, Center for Security Policy Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs, and former CIA analyst:

• The New York Times admits that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium has increased during nuclear negotiations
• Why Tehran’s continued missile delivery system research is particularly troubling
• What is non-negotiable in any final deal with the mullahs?

Dr. ROBERT ZUBRIN, President of Pioneer Energy and Founder of the Mars Society:

• The United States’ current energy security posture
• OPEC and Russia’s role in anti-fracking propaganda
• The environmental effects of fracking

PART TWO:

• Effects of the fracking industry on the world’s energy security
• Iran’s attempt to gain leverage in the oil industry
• China’s provocations in the South China Sea
• Vulnerabilities of Saudi Arabia’s oil supply

PART THREE:

• Fixing the failures of the shale boom
• How captured flare gas is being used for new, productive purposes
• Different fuel sources’ roles in supporting American energy independence

PART FOUR:

• Just how far is the U.S. falling behind China in space development?
• The importance of space access
• Domestic alternatives to space exploration technologies

JOHN LEHMAN, former Secretary of the U.S. Navy:

• Ashton Carter’s plea to China to cease artificial island proliferation 
• A U.S. reduction of military forces worldwide
• Paralyzing effects of an increasing Pentagon bureaucracy
• The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program’s strategic importance

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• The world’s view of the United States since Pres. Obama took office
• Obama’s strategy to have America “lay low”
• Diana West’s “A Short History of Our Age”

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Folderol of the TSA program
• Obama’s non-policy in the Middle East
• The Syrian refugee resettlement program
• Is the USA Freedom Act a good compromise?

ANDY McCARTHY, former U.S. Federal Prosecutor: 

• Rand Paul’s misrepresentation of the NSA’s authority
• How phone companies could be used as records depositories
• Policies which have contributed to the rise of ISIS
• The Supreme Court ruling on the Abercrombie and Fitch hijab case

Amb. ROBERT JOSEPH, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security:

• The fatally flawed Iran framework agreement
• America’s over-reliance on the IAEA
• The ineffectiveness of “snapback” sanctions
• An argument for keeping the option of military force against Iran

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-In-Residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• The Obama administration's desperation to cut a nuclear deal
• Iran and North Korea’s trade relations
• The UN’s blind eye to Hezbollah operations in Lebanon
• Chinese activities in the South China Sea

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

• The “Zero Sum Game” being played by China and the US in the South China Sea
• Japanese role in Ash Carter’s reception by the Chinese
• What else could the US be doing to give this zero sum game more substance?

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• Cuba’s removal from the State Sponsor of Terrorism List
• The continued free-fall of the Maduro regime in Venezuela
• Implications for the US of the upcoming Mexican elections
• An assessment of Mexico’s success in the war against the drug cartels
• The Obama administration’s assistance to El Salvador

With Rep. Mike Kelly, Bill Gertz, Col. Richard Kemp, Deroy Murdock

Rep. MIKE KELLY, U.S. Congressman from the 3rd District of Pennsylvania:

• American oversight of the internet, and why it's being lost
• The Defending Internet Freedom Act (H.R.2251)
• How the Arms Trade Treaty imperils the 2nd Amendment

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor with the Washington Free Beacon:

• Ash Carter’s plea to Beijing to cease artificial island building
• A Chinese-Russian cyber non-aggression pact?
• Tehran’s goals for Yemen
• Saudi Arabia being squeezed by both Iran and the Islamic State

Col. RICHARD KEMP, Former Commander for British Armed Forces in Afghanistan:

• President Obama’s nuclear deal with the Iranian regime
• Dangers of ignoring Iran’s support of terrorism
• President Obama’s willingness to return $50 billion in assets to the Iranians
• Similarities between Hamas and other terror groups

DEROY MURDOCK, Contributing Editor with National Review Online:

• Has the Obama administration exacerbated racial tensions?
• American alienation as a result of Iran negotiations
• Lack of American leadership in foreign relations