Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Dr. LARRY WORTZEL, former Commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress:

• China enters a new phase of expeditionary warfare
• The PLA's problem of personnel quality and corruption
• Going forward, a need to restrict military cooperation with China

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, former DoJ official and author of “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department”:

• Is a Hawaiian separatist movement being supported by Communist China?
• Did Eric Holder show racial bias when dealing with the Ferguson case?
• The legislative--not judicial--process needed to enforce amnesty laws
• Concessions the Senate should ask for in return for confirming Loretta Lynch as Attorney General

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA:

• The potential Department of Homeland Security shutdown over funding of the President’s executive amnesty
• Why the Senate has no options in the fight over DHS spending
• How the refugee resettlement industry could serve as a trojan horse for the Islamic State

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

• Confronting the issue of rhetoric and use of the term "Islamism"
• Appeasement as a policy means to avoid giving offense today and during the Cold War
• Administration outreach in the lead up to the White House's Countering Violent Extremism Summit

Dr. CHARLES JACOBS, Founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance:

• President Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” summit to kick off tomorrow at the White House and State Department
• Boston, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles touted as models of proper cooperation between the government and Muslim-American communities
• Is Boston an example of Obama's foreign policy on American soil?
• Combating acts of jihad inside the U.S. by community-police cooperation

KATHARINE GORKA, Co-Founder of the Council on Global Security,

• President Obama’s comments regarding the murder of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians
• The U.S. information warfare campaign against ISIS and the broader global jihad
• Does "countering violent extremism" take into account pre-violent and non-violent jihad?
• Female genital mutilation in the United States

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal persecutor:

• Countering Islamic extremism and the dangers of submission to it
• U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution concerning Islamic blasphemy
• The President’s AUMF and the limits of using ground forces
• A Texas federal judge raising the issue of federal courts and executive amnesty

Rep. SCOTT PERRY (PA-4), Member of the House Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees:

• Administration rhetoric towards those who distort Islam and Pres. Obama’s overall strategy in dealing with non-rational actors
• Does the new AUMF actually give the President less power to combat ISIS?
• Consequences of an attack on the U.S. electrical grid or other critical infrastructure

Dr. SEBASTIAN GORKA, Breitbart's National Security and Foreign Affairs editor:

• Where counterterrorism efforts are best focused
• Putting the Global Jihad Movement in its proper context
• The Saudi connection to 9/11 and the Siege of Mecca
• Putin's information warfare against Obama and the EU

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

• The Center for Security Policy’s Defeat Global Jihad event and its “Secure Freedom Strategy”
• Why a broader declaration of war is more appropriate than President Obama’s AUMF
• The integral role of the Guantanamo Bay holding facility for national security

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• RAND's report on Chinese military weaknesses
• Tracing the Anthem cyber attack against sensitive U.S. healthcare information to a Chinese state-sponsored group
• Administration bias towards the NSA as evidenced by the newly-created Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
• U.S. Senate confirmation of to-be Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter

CLIFF KINCAID, President of America's Survival and the Director for Accuracy in Media's Center for Investigative Journalism:

• The political power of the papacy turns Leftist
• America's enemies in Hollywood, then and now
• President Reagan's example of courage and conservatism

Gov. BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of Louisiana, Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association:

• The need for Muslim community leaders to denounce acts of violent jihad
• Insistence on assimilation and integration of immigrants to the West
• Reinstating American exceptionalism

ANDREW C. McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Pitfalls of using the civilian justice system in accordance with U.S. counterterrorism policy
• How 9/11 militarized the American response to jihadism
• The Blind Sheikh's cultural mastery of shariah

MICHAEL MUKASEY, former Attorney General of the United States:

• The "war of words" when describing radical and political Islam
• Widespread acceptance of Shariah law throughout the Middle East by both the masses and outside governing bodies
• Examples of official Western endorsement of those who promote the global jihad
• Addressing an ideology that seeks to destroy all other ways of life

NEWT GINGRICH, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives:

• Will Hillary Clinton part ways with the Obama national security doctrine if elected president?
• Revamping the Departments of State, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and the congressional committees to combat today’s threats

Sen. TED CRUZ, United States Senator for Texas:

• Concerning yet underreported remarks on free speech made by President Obama last week
• The absurdity of comparing modern-day Islamist atrocities to the 2nd millennium's Crusades
• Thoughts on the AUMF proposal
• The status of the US-Kurdish relationship

PART ONE:

REZA KAHLILI, author of “A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guard of Iran”:

• The Mullahs' ultimate goals of getting the U.S. out of the Middle East, obtaining a nuclear weapon, and taking offensive action against Israel
• Iranian proxy activity in Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain
• Claims that Hezbollah controls over 100,000 missiles and rockets in Lebanon

PART TWO:

• An expanded Iranian cyber capability post-Stuxnet
• Continued resistance IAEA inspectors face in getting full access to certain Iranian facilities
• Missiles delivery system developments underway in Iran

PART THREE

• What U.S. intelligence sources are saying about Iran's proximity to a nuclear capability
• The problem with former "red lines" now being treated as acceptable behavior
• Iran’s original nuclear ambition of deterring Saddam Hussein

PART FOUR:

• The disastrous effects a nuclear detonation would have on the global economy
• Shiite Islam theology and the Twelfth Imam
• The choice that the U.S. must pose to Iran: accept drastic limitations to its nuclear program and grant full IAEA oversight, or face military consequences

JED BABBIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and co-author of “The BDS War Against Israel”:

• Why the new National Security Strategy is still not a strategy
• Smart defense spending and the Quadrennial Defense Review
• The President's Bergdahl problem
• Are Qatar and Turkey true allies of the United States?

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The current state of Sino-Japanese relations
• China's increasingly assertive use of territorial claims to harass neighbors
• Shinzo Abe's moves to create a more dynamic Japanese foreign policy
• Weighing the nuclear option in pacifist Japan

DANIEL GALLINGTON, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Territorial Security:

• European governments' failings to properly assimilate their large Muslim populations into greater society
• Walking the fine line of free speech as a modern-day journalist
• Two important Patriot Act provisions up for renewal in Congress

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• The Obama Administration’s hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood is the moderate Islamist group that can stabilize the Middle East
• Muslim Brotherhood stated goals of unseating el-Sisi’s government in Egypt
• Strategic patience: the strategy of doing nothing?
• President Obama’s statements at the National Prayer Breakfast

RAYMOND STOCK, Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum:

• Various Islamist groups' historic ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
• A continued struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood and el-Sisi’s Egyptian government
• Analyzing a Muslim Brotherhood delegation’s recent official trip to Washington, D.C.

RYAN MAURO, National Security Analyst at the Clarion Project.org

• The Muslim Brotherhood's goal to influence U.S. foreign policy against Egypt and rid Western dialogue of the term ‘Islamist’
• An explanatory memorandum about the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy in North America
• Mohamed Elibiary’s comments about Gov. Bobby Jindal and American Christians

BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU, Iran Research Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Is nuclear Iran a question of political will rather than nuclear capability?
• The shift in U.S.-Iran nuclear policy: from "can" to "how much"
• How the term "American Islam" relates to the Sunni-Shia schism

GORDON CHANG, author of "The Coming Collapse of China":

• Why a weak China may be more dangerous than a strong one
• The goal behind China's diverse and intensifying cyber attacks
• Alibaba's counterfeiting crisis

Amb. JOHN HERBST, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine:

• Putin’s efforts to keep Ukraine as a puppet of the Kremlin and away from the West
• Appropriate U.S. and NATO responses to Russian aggression
• Does Russia view President Obama as weak?
• Grading the U.S. nuclear deterrent in Eastern Europe

Dr. ROBERT ZUBRIN, author of “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil”:

• Saudi Arabia’s history of economic warfare against the U.S.
• The Moussaoui report linking the Saudi Royal Family to Al Qaeda
• How to break away from OPEC reliance
• SpaceX and Pentagon rocket deals

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Public Advocacy and editor of the blog Capitol Hill Cubans:

• Cuba's response to unilateral U.S. concessions
• Questions over the future of Cuba's status as a State Sponsor of Terror
• Should Ex-Im finance exports to Cuba?
• Why diplomacy with Cuba could lead to regrets on Iran

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Ash Carter’s statements regarding American support for Ukraine and Russian missile treaty cheating
• China’s push to dominate the United States military and economy
• ISIS inroads into Afghanistan, Libya, and now Saudi Arabia

MICHAEL PILLSBURY, former Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower":

PART ONE:

• How China is playing the long game for economic dominance and eventual conquest
• The ruse behind China's Free Market Frankenstein
• Kissinger's new take on U.S.-Chinese relations: Only China could go to Nixon

PART TWO:

• “The Kissinger Role”
• A history of U.S. and Chinese collaboration on science, technology, weapons, and intelligence
• The Clinton Administration's fundamental changes to Chinese-American relations

PART THREE:

• The rise of the hawks in China
• Understanding the puzzle of Beijing's political power struggles
• Spy vs. Spy and Chinese espionage successes

PART FOUR:

• The story of Larry Wu Tai Chin
• Dangerous implications of the Chinese "Assassin’s Mace" program
• Known unknowns of China’s nuclear force
• The U.S.'s loss of the battle of information dominance and strategic communications

ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times reporter and co-author of "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Campaign Against Al Qaeda":

• One general's quest for the truth behind the Islamic State
• The ideological vulnerabilities of the West
• What Kobani reveals about the Islamic State's strategy

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

• A military failure to properly educate U.S. forces about what motivates ISIS
• The minority that has "weaponized" Islam
• Message of the Pentagon-sponsored essay contest honoring the late Saudi King Abdullah

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion:

• The politics of appeasement and cognitive dissonance
• Terror attacks' common thread
• Theocratic pressure on Western institutions

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, former Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy Principal Director for Forces Policy:

• Cold War-style nuclear provocations in the U.K.
• Putin’s continued escalation in Ukraine to distract from the tattered Russian economy
• Russian ICBMs in the Crimea
• The stated goal of full nuclear modernization in Russia by 2021