Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

DAVID RIVKIN, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Does Congress have a role to play in foreign policy?
• President Obama's pattern of executive overreach
• The alternative to a nuclear deal with Iran

DAVID SATTER, former Moscow correspondent and author of “It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyways: Russia and the Communist Past”:

• Assessing the likelihood that the Boris Nemtsov murder was a contract killing with Kremlin involvement
• Are Vladimir Putin’s actions in Eastern Ukraine meant to distract from Russia's domestic woes?
• Where the Eastern Ukrainians' loyalty stands after facing indiscriminate shelling from both separatist and government forces

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Editor of the Americas Report of the Center for Security Policy’s Menges Hemispheric Security Project:

• Iranian Revolutionary Guard training at the Military School of ALBA in Bolivia
• The connection between drug cartels and terrorist groups
• Motivations behind Iran's extensive involvement in Latin America
• President Obama's conciliatory approach to Iran in the Western Hemisphere

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, former Deputy Inspector General of New York State, and author of “The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection”:

• A call for an official Administration report on the extent of radical Islamist sentiments in the U.S. federal prison system
• The Saudi role in the spread of Salafist-Sunni doctrine within U.S. correctional facilities
• What terror attacks in Denmark highlight about the dangers of those predisposed to violence falling under the spell of Jihad

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

• The broken bipartisan consensus toward both Iranian nuclear weapons and true net neutrality
• Pressing Secretary of State Kerry on Iran's poor record of cheating
• Why Harry Reid's power is undiminished
• The continued Congressional battle over defunding DHS

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President at the American Foreign Policy Council and author of “Implosion: The End of Russia and What It Means for America”:

• Possible Kremlin connections to the Boris Nemtsov murder
• Multi-part process to understand Russian action in Eastern Ukraine
• Moscow’s appetite for former Soviet states now in the NATO alliance
• The impact of NATO's internal strife on any Western response to Vladimir Putin

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor with National Review Online:

• The true problem with Iranian nuclear negotiations is unrepentant Jihad, not centrifuges
• Updating the Bush Doctrine to defeat state sponsors of terrorism
• Hillary Clinton's emails and the vindication of the Benghazi scandal

Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, and co-author of “Somalia: Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State”:

• Regional forces' recent successes in rolling back Boko Haram from several Nigerian cities
• Al-Shabaab’s threat against the Mall of America in Minnesota and other targets in Canada and the U.K.
• Why the diffusion of Al-Shabaab interests out of Somalia poses a danger to the West

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School, and author of “The Case for Israel”:

• Should Prime Minister Netanyahu have consulted with the Obama Administration before agreeing to speak before Congress?
• Why without congressional intervention, nuclear non-proliferation may be lost in the Middle East
• Is Barack Obama a 21st century Neville Chamberlain?
• Anti-semitism seen in Europe’s left-wing academic and Muslim communities

Dr. DANIEL GOURÉ, Vice President of the Lexington Institute:

• The Heritage Foundation’s newly released “Index of U.S. Military Strength”
• Continued turmoil in Africa stretching the U.S. armed forces' ability to engage in two separate conventional theaters
• Comparing the status of the U.S. nuclear deterrent to that of China, Russia, North Korea, and now Iran
• Erosion of the American defense industrial base

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute:

• Islamic State threats against the Mediterranean
• How a well-maintained U.S. fleet could have prevented the 9/11 Benghazi attack
• Turkey's change of direction from a pro-Western ally
• The U.S. pivot to the Pacific

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

• Friday's assassination of leading Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov
• The continuing alliance between Beijing and Moscow
• Japanese and Indian naval buildups as China continues its military modernization efforts
• Monopolization of state enterprises by Xi Jinping’s government
• Alibaba's falling stock and other investor woes

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

• A refusal by Democratic Senators to vote on a motion to proceed with debate over the House bill to fund DHS
• National security concerns amid chances of closing the Guantanamo Bay holding facility
• What's not included in the President's proposed AUMF draft

RICHARD HOLM, former CIA Paris Chief of Station and Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Office:

• Holm’s account of surviving a reconnaissance plane crash along the 1960s Congo/Sudanese border despite suffering near-fatal burns
• Today’s intelligence mission of countering the global jihad
• The importance of American support to Egyptian President el-Sisi and of a greater reformation in Islam
• How intelligence capabilities were used to great effect by former CIA Director Bill Casey against Soviet Communism

Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), House Armed Services Committee member, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Congressional Long-Range Strike Caucus:

• Will a nuclear-armed Iran catalyze an arms race in the Middle East?
• Prime Minister Netanyahu’s grievances over the Iran nuclear talks
• Concerns Vladimir Putin is bringing about a new Iron Curtain with his own unique political and economic systems
• The atrophy of the U.S. nuclear deterrent

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• The Venezuelan regime’s increasingly brutal tactics amid economic woes and government-sponsored narco-trafficking
• Have the Cuban people actually benefitted from the normalization of relations between the Castro regime and United States?
• Potential Russian, Chinese, and North Korean responses should the U.S. vacate Guantanamo Bay
• The supposed Iranian/Argentinian “truth squad’ following the Alberto Nisman death

Dr. PAUL KENGOR, Executive Director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College:

• Reactions to Rudy Giuliani's destruction of the taboo against questioning President Obama's love for America
• Obama's relationships as an adult with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn
• Links between anti-American influences on Obama and the policies he presently pursues
• What made up President Reagan's counter-Communism strategy, and can it be adapted to the present era?

Dr. PETER BROOKES, Former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Asian and Pacific Affairs:

• Questions regarding the leak of a proposed Mosul offensive this spring
• The imperative for Iraqi security forces to gain victories in Anbar Province before taking Mosul
• Is the proposed AUMF a political cover for the President?

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

• Secretary of State Kerry’s recent comments about Americans being safer than ever before
• Is the President submitting to the enemies of the United States?
• The strategic importance of Guantanamo Bay to U.S. counterterrorism policy
• Civilization jihad “destroying us from within, with our own hands"

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA Analyst, currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• A loophole in the Iran talks that lets the regime keep the Arak facility and increase uranium enrichment prior to a ten year deal
• An Iranian dissident group's discovery of Lavisan-3, a secret subterranean nuclear plant in suburban Tehran
• Continued controversy over Bibi Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress
• Criticism of newly appointed House Select Intelligence Committee member André Carson (IN-7) for purported ties to Muslim Brotherhood front groups

CHRISTIAN WHITON, former senior State Department advisor, currently of D.C. International Advisory:

PART ONE:

• Would "jobs for jihadists" eradicate radical Islamism?
• Ideological ties between different jihadist groups, despite a lack of common leadership
• Similarities between the fights against the ideologies of Soviet Communism and radical Islamism
• What is behind the U.S.'s reluctance to ally with Egyptian President el-Sisi, who is speaking out against radical Islam?

PART TWO:

• Comparing U.S. diplomacy towards the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs
• Why Cold War tactics and strategic talking points are failing to deter the millennial Iranian regime
• Responding to criticism that Bibi Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congress is partisan

PART THREE:

• Putin’s disregard for Obama as evidenced by his Ukrainian land grabs and posture toward the Baltics and Central Asia
• Chances of the U.S. actually engaging in a full-scale conflict with China or Russia
• The urgent need for U.S. leadership on the global stage to prevent allies from cutting deals with hostile actors
• Using a strong military as an anchor for effective diplomacy

PART FOUR:

• Does Chinese aggression in the S. and E. China Seas and along the Indian border stem from a perceived weakness of U.S. foreign policy?
• Japan's potential to go fully nuclear to deter its Chinese neighbors
• An insecure U.S. southern border inviting malice from foreign adversaries

Dr. TAWFIK HAMID, Senior Fellow and Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies:

• How Muhammad Morsi's record evidences the Muslim Brotherhood's jihadist ideology
• Egypt's view: the Obama Administration seems more interested in supporting radical Islam than defeating it
• The challenge Egyptian President el-Sisi posed to al-Azhar and the broader Muslim world

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

• President Obama’s statements regarding Islamist grievances at his CVE Summit
• Rep. André Carson’s (IN-7) appointment to the House Intelligence Committee
• Influence of nefarious actors in institutions responsible for homeland security

F. MICHAEL MALOOF, author of “A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe”:

• The surprisingly public U.S. government announcement of its strategy to take back the ISIS-held Iraqi city of Mosul
• Threats facing the U.S. electric grid from all directions

VAN HIPP, Chairman of American Defense International, Inc., and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army:

• Threats to the U.S. from cyber terrorists, radical Islam, porous borders, EMP attacks, and biological warfare
• Benefits of partnering with moderate Muslim reformers, such as King Abdullah II of Jordan
• How political correctness emboldens enemies of the United States
• Wide-reaching implications of an attack on a major U.S. port or harbor
• Is the U.S. Navy adequately resourced to conduct international power-projection missions AND provide homeland security?

CLARE LOPEZ, former CIA Operations Officer and Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

• Does the new draft AUMF limit President Obama’s power to combat the Islamic State?
• Sectarian warfare that has embroiled the Middle East for hundreds of years
• Addressing, confronting, and ultimately defeating the entirety of the global jihad threat as outlined in the Center for Security Policy’s “Secure Freedom Strategy”

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• The Muslim Public Affairs Council’s controversial founder's invitation to President Obama’s CVE Summit
• A new DHS report claiming “right-wing radicals” pose more of a threat to the public than Islamic extremism
• The menace civilians face from “lone and known wolf” jihadists
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending stateside visit in two weeks

JAMIE DETTMER, Middle East reporter at The Daily Beast and Voice of America correspondent:

• Qatar's double game with America and the Global Jihad Movement
• Jordan and Egypt in the fight against the Islamic State across the MENA region
• Why a lack of coordination and leadership is the biggest problem in the Middle East

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

• Chinese internet conglomerate Alibaba under multiple state investigations regarding fraudulent products
• A new Japanese foreign policy posture amid pushback to global security issues
• Japan as a key factor in the U.S. policy to contain China

ROBERT McDOWELL, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow:

• A historical overview of the bipartisan consensus on the greatest deregulatory success
• Politicizing the independent FCC ultimately endangers freedom of expression
• The diffuse nature of the Internet enables innovation and defies top-down control
• How the World Wide Web could be transformed by tyrants from a bastion of freedom into a tool of censorship and control

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• North Korea’s new SLBM
• Known “unknowns” regarding the Chinese nuclear program
• Continued Russian influence in the Western Hemisphere

Gen. JERRY BOYKIN, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence:

• The mystery behind Obama's denial of the truth about the Global Jihad Movement
• How the Administration misses the genuine silent majority of moderate Muslims for wolves in sheep's clothing
• Why Western apologists for Islamic terrorism are the real factor increasing recruitment among Jihadists
• The humiliation of America and how to turn the tables on the Islamic State

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

• North Korea’s final “nuclear doom” threat
• Pyongyang’s dismissal of ICC claims of human rights abuses

STEVE COUGHLIN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• The double standard over comments regarding Islam
  U.S. allies in the Middle East
• Recognizing Islam's role in the current war
• Exposing the Muslim Brotherhood's influence on the President's statements

TOM ROGAN, National Review Online and Daily Telegraph columnist:

• Countering homegrown jihadism in the United Kingdom
• Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of the West through Europe’s weak military readiness and reliance on Russian energy

SIDNEY POWELL, author of “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice”:

• Why Americans can expect "more of the same" if Loretta Lynch is appointed Attorney General
• Rampant over-criminalization in the Justice Department
• The absence of prosecutorial discretion in amnesty cases

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and former CIA analyst:

• Contrasting Newt Gingrich at the Defeat Jihad Summit with President Obama's remarks on Countering Violent Extremism
• Do "legitimate economic, political, or historical grievances" ever justify beheadings and immolation?
• The Administration's responsibility for the chaos in Libya and Yemen
• How Iran's advancing nuclear program and the ineffectual talks undermine alliances and destabilize the Middle East