Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. ROB WITTMAN, (VA-1) Chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee:

• National security in tonight's State of the Union address
• Prospects for another sequester on the military
• Why budget hawks must also be defense hawks
• An assault on the strongest leg of the nuclear deterrent triad

JAIME SUCHLICKI, Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami:

• Is the U.S. giving too many concessions to Cuba?
• Pattern of anti-American governments providing ‘economic life support’ to the Cuban regime
• Should President Obama have waited until Rául Castro was out of power before normalizing relations?
• Dangers of Russia, China, or Iran taking control of the Guantanamo Bay strategic port

NINA SHEA, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Motivations behind the religious cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa
• Destruction of the religious diversity of the Middle East by the Islamic State
• The surprising source of hate speech laws

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

• The Obama Surge: the continued release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay
• Polling that shows large numbers of French residents are unconcerned with the growth of shariah blasphemy doctrine in France
• Threats posed by Islamic sympathizers inside the United States government

DOUGLAS MURRAY, Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society:

• Politicians’ distancing of Islam from recent terror attacks in France
• Passive media tolerance of shariah blasphemy laws
• What is the reality of radicalism in Birmingham, England?

RUDY ATALLAH, former Africa Counterterrorism director at the US Department of Defense:

• The evolution of Boko Haram, and its recent attack on the town of Baga
• Implications of next month’s Nigerian elections
• Strengthening Boko Haram-Islamic State ties
• Connections between the Paris supermarket terrorist and the nation of Mali

GAL LUFT, Co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and Senior Adviser to the United States Energy Security Council:

• How America’s new glut of natural gas threatens OPEC’s energy monopoly
• Saudi Arabia’s plans to destroy fracking and natural gas in America
• Why unintended consequences for other countries reliant on oil herald potential global disaster

NEIL MUNRO, White House Correspondent for the Daily Caller:

• Why Islamic/Arab society has failed and how President Obama punishes America for this failure
• The stifling of press freedom under the Obama Administration to silence mentions of Jihad

BILL ROGGIO, Managing Editor at The Long War Journal:

• The link between AQAP and the Paris jihadists
• Boko Haram attack in Nigeria against civilians and a multinational African force
• "One must recognize an enemy in order to defeat an enemy"

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA Intelligence Analyst:

• Why fighting shariah should be added to the discussion of countering violent extremism
• Evidence AQAP and the Islamic State are competing for the same goal, despite minor differences between the groups
• The intelligence domain of the Center for Security Policy’s Secure Freedom Strategy
• Urgent need to cease White House overreach into the intelligence bureaucracy

REZA KAHLILI, former undercover CIA agent in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and author of "A Time To Betray":

• The true nature of Iranian intentions
• Why negotiations over Iran's nuclear program are doomed to fail
• Will military action be required to halt Iran's dangerous advances?

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

• Dangers of relocating Guantanamo Bay detainees to countries with inadequate counterterrorism oversight programs
• Investigation into the civilization jihad and Islamic radicalization continuing to take place in the U.S. prison system

Rep. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (FL-27), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa:

• Reestablishing trust between the Executive and Legislative Branches and securing the border before implementing any measure of immigration reform
• Obama's policy in Cuba, post-prisoner swap
• Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's search abroad for economic assistance
• Is freedom of expression under threat?

MARK KRIKORIAN, Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The Aderholt legislation's threat to block DHS funding unless the President changes immigration policy
• Will the Republican Congress be blamed for a Homeland Security shutdown?
• Current enforcement regulations handcuffing border patrol agents

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

• Lessons learned from European terror attacks dating back to the 1970’s PLO atrocities
• Defending Western culture against shariah blasphemy laws and suppression of religious freedom
• The West’s true salvation must come from the ability to defend its own way of life, not from Arab leaders

JIM HANSON, former Army Special Operations Technical Weapons Sergeant:

• French Police and Intelligence Services “no-go zones” catalyzing terrorism and anti-Semitism
• The lackadaisical approach to home-grown anti-terrorism by Western governments
• Fleeting media attention given to Boko Haram's African, Islamic Caliphate
• If Guantanamo Bay is under the jurisdiction of the Cuban regime, what will become of prisoners who don’t fit the criteria for international conventions or U.S. criminal courts?

PETE HOEKSTRA, former U.S. Congressman (MI-2) and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee:

• Will Western leaders awaken to the threat of Islamic Jihad?
• How President Obama has abetted the Muslim Brotherhood in America and throughout the Middle East and North Africa
• Why engaging with the enemy will be seen as weakness and ruthlessly exploited

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

• Egyptian President el-Sisi's condemnation of violent extremism in Sunni Islam
• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's denouncement of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, but failure to mention the later killings in the kosher deli market
• Hezbollah advancing Iranian interests in Syria by aligning with Bashar al-Assad

YOSSIE HOLLANDER: Co-Founder of  the Fuel Freedom Foundation, and producer of the documentary "Pump":

• America's solution to energy security
• Why outdated regulations stifle creativity and contribute to high energy prices
• What breaking the energy monopoly of oil means for our enemies abroad

BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University:

• The paradox of North Korea: a Third World country with First World cyber warfare capabilities
• China turns a blind eye toward North Korean cyberterrorism operations
• How North Korea might retaliate against President Obama's proportionate response

Dr. ANDREW BOSTOM, author of “Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism":

• Anti-terror marches in Paris and the ramifications of the Kosher market attack
• Was the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher market massacre a coordinated operation?
• Mainstream media censoring of some Charlie Hebdo cartoons that provoked last week's attacks

Dr. EFRAIM INBAR, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University (Tel Aviv):

• Tying Western Europe’s anti-semitism and recognition of a Palestinian state to the BDS campaign against Israel
• The rising political force that Europe’s Muslim communities now posses
• Is Turkey America’s unacknowledged problem?
• How further U.S. appeasement to Turkey will only increase security risks in the Middle East

Dr. RAYMOND TANTER, former Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense for Arms Control and author of “Arab Rebels and Iranian Dissidents: New Landscape Allows Reset of U.S. Iran Policy”:

• Sensitive Iraninan nuclear facilities hidden underground
• Saudi Arabia's continuing manipulation of the global oil market
• Predictions the U.S. shale industry will survive record-low oil prices due to diversification of the U.S. economy

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World”:

• Beijing-friendly President Mahinda Rajapaksa unseated in Sri Lanka
• Underlying problems in Chinese foreign policy relations with Taiwan and Burma
• Accelerated Chinese demographic challenges while India paces itself to be the most populous country on Earth
• Volvo, owned by the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. distinction as the first to export Chinese cars to the U.S.

CHARLES FADDIS, President of Orion Strategic Services and a former CIA operations officer:

• Longstanding issues with the decade-long war against terrorism
• The true enemy of democratic free nations
• Why the West's "tolerance" is never reciprocated

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA Analyst:

• Larger implications of the dual hostage crises in France today
• Western media's failure to highlight recent global jihadist attacks in Nigeria and Yemen
• Freedom of speech and condemnation of slandering of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
• Shariah police in Germany?

TOMMY WALLER, Former USMC Force Reconnaissance Operator and Director of State Legislative Outreach at the Center for Security Policy:

• Unwillingness in the military to educate those on the front lines about what animates the enemy
• Muslim Brotherhood's "information dominance" in the U.S.
• Shariah in American Courts
• Raising awareness and enacting legal protections in hopes of individual states creating policy as it relates to foreign law

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• How U.S. missile defense can counter Russian and Chinese hypersonic weapon capabilities
• Chinese insider knowledge of U.S. hydraulic dam infrastructure
• Implications of turning jurisdiction of the Guantanamo Bay facility to the Cuban regime
• Russian aggression in Ukraine and Islamic attacks on civilians highlighting a failed nonmilitary Europe policy

TAREK FATAH, Founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, Toronto Sun columnist and author of “Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State”:

PART ONE

• Charlie Hebdo: the latest victim of stateless violence in the name of Islam
• Why Western Civilization has failed in addressing the shariah idea of blasphemy

PART TWO:

• Rampant anti-semitism under the guise of Koranic interpretation on the streets of Europe today
• Muslim Brotherhood and other shariah-based groups taking advantage of Western naïvety of the Islamic faith
• How financial backing from Saudi trust corporations is leading to a radicalization of North American mosques

PART THREE

• The plight of the moderate, secular, and peaceful Muslim
• The pervasive political influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada and elsewhere
• Pressures against Westernization

PART FOUR:

• Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s speech regarding religious liberalization at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University
• The dangers of an Islamic, nuclear-armed Pakistan
• The case for expelling Turkey from NATO, sanctioning Saudi Arabia, and cutting aid to Pakistan

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• Who's behind the Paris terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo?
• Possible connections between author Michel Houellebecq’s new novel and today's attack
• “No go zones” in certain Islamist-majority neighborhoods in France
• Tensions between France's shariah-adherrent radicals and non-Muslim and traditional Muslim sects

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

• Charlie Hebdo’s history of satirical coverage of religious matters
• Certain European governments divorcing Islam from attacks by religious extremists
• Crisis of civilization jihad in the western world

MICHAEL S. SMITH II, Co-Founder of Kronos Advisory LLC:

• AQ's latest issue of Inspire, the English language propaganda magazine, seeks to capitalize on the rise of the "lone Jihad" movement
• Ideological influences of Salafiya Jihadiya over both lone jihadists and organized terrorist groups
• Why HUMINT gathering and counterterrorism polices will ultimately win the war against lone wolves

JOHN HANNAH, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Advisor to VP Dick Cheney:

• The President's current posture towards Iran
• Libya provides a blueprint for how to "de-nuclearize" Iran through coercive diplomacy
• Assad vs. Iran vs. the U.S. in Syria
• How the Obama Administration has drastically undermined Israel's ability to confront the Islamic Republic militarily

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and London Center for Policy Research:

• Outgoing Sentate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein’s criticism of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program
• Urgent need to ‘backup and harden’ the electric grid to protect against hardware and software threats
• Will the Cuban people see any benefits to the normalization of relations with the United States?

JOSEPH CONNOR, co-author of The New Founders:

• A history of the Puerto Rican terrorist organization Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN)
• Cuba's harboring of FALN bomber William Morales
• The prisoner swap proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to President Obama

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Fethullah Gülen’s efforts to stop the complete Islamification of Turkey at the hands of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
• A call for religious enlightenment of Sunni Islam in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
• Will an upcoming election unseat Bibi Natanyahu in Israel?

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

• What exactly did President Obama mean when he threatened a ‘proportional response’ against the Kim Jong-un regime?
• A need for tougher sanctions and a specific endgame to counter North Korea
• Inconsistency regarding the U.S. governments condemnation of an Iranian cyber attack on the Las Vegas Sands Corp.