Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

JACK CASHILL, author of “You Lie! The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama”

PART ONE

• President Obama’s disingenuous portrayal of his family dynamic
• The preferential treatment of the Administration by mainstream corporate media
• The looming showdown between President Obama and the Republican controlled Congress

PART TWO

• Architect of Obamacare Jonathan Gruber admits the fraud and deception behind the law and gullibility of the American electorate
• The media’s influence and enabling of the fraud of Obamacare
• Republican’s stance on the unlawfulness of President Obama’s actions and how to prevent his further abuse of power
• Questioning Barack Obama’s presidential character and whether he is able to project power and strength on the international stage

PART THREE

• Has President Obama succumbed to “playing second fiddle” to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping?
• Security concerns regarding an American C-17 cargo aircraft being gifted to the Chinese military
• Leading from behind as a method to appease Obama’s liberal base
• Retrospective thought on the U.S.-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddfi

PART FOUR

• The Obama administration’s subtle sympathies for Islamist entities in Egypt and the Middle East
• The cover up of the Benghazi attack and Hilary Clinton’s role as an enabler of executive lawlessness
• How President Obama’s worldview guides his poor national security policy

Dr. DAN GOURÉ, Vice-President of the Lexington Institute:

PART ONE

• How the rise of Russia, China, and Islamic State have shifted the geo-political playing field
• The Obama Doctrine’s dangerous consequences for international security
• A comparison between the weak Western response to Hitler in the 1930’s and Putin's ongoing invasion of Eastern Ukraine
• Salvaging the future of U.S. alliance relationships

PART TWO

• Sequestration's endangering of U.S. security in a time of Islamist totalitarian expansion
• Analysis of the degradation of the American military’s readiness and ability to project peace through strength
• America’s “near peer competitors” on track to surpass U.S. military superiority

PART THREE

• An atrophying of the defense industrial base, including private contractors
• Risks of relying on foreign adversaries for critical military hardware
• The Ex-Im Bank’s crucial export financing of the defense industry

PART FOUR

• The unilateral dismantling of the U.S. nuclear forces
• Can the current U.S. nuclear arsenal still serve as a quality deterrent?
• Risks of banning the military from using antipersonnel land mines

JEN WEEDON, FireEye Inc. Threat Intelligence Manager:

• The Russian state-sponsored cyber operation known as APT28
• Russian regional interests seen in the Black Energy malware campaign
• Cyber vulnerabilities of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure
• The problem of attribution in deterring such threats

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, executive director of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC:

• Cuba's enabling of a Venezuelan narco-state
• Details of the North Korean vessel intercepted last summer in the Panama Canal carrying undeclared weapons from Cuba
• Contradictions in UN policy towards the Castro regime
• Predictions on U.S. policy towards Latin America in the upcoming lame duck session

BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of The Long War Journal:

• Will the Administration push for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force despite its incoherent strategy on the Islamic State?
• Worrisome U.S. pandering to Tehran
• Drone strikes in Afghanistan: "tactical successes of a strategic failure"
• Reports that President Obama intends to fulfill his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Increased Kremlin adventurism following the sham elections of pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine
• Europe being held hostage over Russian natural gas
• National Security Agency Director Mike Roger’s worrisome speech on cyber deterrence
• Using the power of the purse to counter an appeasement-oriented White House foreign policy

ILAN BERMAN, Vice-President of the American Foreign Policy Council and co-editor of “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America”:

PART ONE

• Details of the newly released book, "Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America," and an overview of America's failure to respond to Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere
• The emergence of a Shariah-centered and opportunistic Iranian foreign policy
• How warm relations with Venezuela and other Latin American countries could give Iran direct strike capabilities against the U.S.

PART TWO

• How White House desperation is moving Iran closer to a bomb
• Pres. Obama's tactical half-measure of cutting Congress out of Iranian nuclear talks
• Has the United States enabled Iran to become the regional hegemony in the Middle East?

PART THREE

• Will the U.S. and Iran strike a grand bargain to defeat the Islamic State?
• America's role in Iran's transition from threshold nuclear state to regional hegemony
• An opportunistic Vladimir Putin in a fragmented world order
• How the absence of an overarching Western strategy to confront Putin is creating turmoil in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

PART FOUR

• Political distancing between Washington and Jerusalem evidenced in recent Administration rhetoric
• U.S. foreign policy: “a feckless opponent and unreliable ally, breeding adventurism of enemies and suspicion from friends”
• A need to implement a “no substitute for serious” doctrine to reverse the current status quo

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

• How a GOP majority in the Senate and House can respond to the plea for help to stop President Obama’s lawlessness
• The need for the U.S. government to take accountability of a failed policy in Afghanistan
• The unjust imprisonment of Sgt. Derek Miller as a paradigm of an ill-advised counterinsurgency strategy

JIM HANSON, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy’s Secure Freedom Roku channel and former 1st Army Special Operations:

• Election outcomes and their bearing on potential national security policy changes
• “A Tale of Two Sergeants” and how a drastic change is needed in guardianship of U.S. military personnel
• The administrations possible attempt to ‘whitewash’ the Bergdahl affair
• Inadvisability regarding a Navy SEAL operator revealing classified information on the Osama bin Laden raid

YLEEM POBLETE, former chief of staff of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:

• How domestic economic concerns led the way for a new conservative direction on foreign affairs
• Looking ahead to the GOP Congress fighting both Iranian influence in the western hemisphere and a proposed nuclear deal
• The prospects of resetting relations with Israel

Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and author of “Somalia: Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State” (Tafelburg Short, 2013):

• Nigeria and Senegal’s effective eradication of the Ebola virus and the lessons learned
• How turbulence in Burkino Faso threatens Western counterterrorism operations in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Overeagerness of the international community to ouster Burkino Faso’s Blaise Compaore

CATHERINE ENGELBRECHT, president and founder of True the Vote:

• Voter fraud in the United States
• Concerns that voter ID laws infringe on voters' rights
• Updates on True the Vote's lawsuit against the IRS for targeting based on political beliefs

MACKENZIE EAGLEN, Fellow at the American Entreprise Institute and former Defense Advisor to Senator Susan Collins:

• The potential for a shift in national security and foreign policy with the advent of a Republican-dominated Congress
• President Obama’s “splitting the difference” approach to national security policy
• The U.S. Defense Department's eroding military edge and readiness as a result of sequestration

PETER KELLY-DETWILER, co-founder of NorthBridge Energy Partners LLC:

• Molten salt nuclear reactors: a safer and more economic alternative to boiling water reactors
• Ways that molton salt technology can be used to improve the resiliency of the electric grid
• Fuel resiliency and underinvestment in “micro grids”
• Saudi Arabia's response to higher than predicted oil exports in Libya, Iraq, and the greater Middle East

ANDREW McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor and a contributing editor with National Review Online:

• How might Congress be run differently if Republicans win control of the Senate?
• Congress' use of the cloture rule to avoid tough decision making
• Implications of the Congressional Lame Duck Session for American security

A.B. STODDARD, columnist and political analyst for "The Hill":

• Expectations that Republicans will gain Senate seats in tomorrow's midterm elections
• Democratic candidates distancing themselves from President Obama as they campaign at home
• Significant divisions within the Republican party
• Determining near-term GOP priorities for the new Congress
• How a Republican Congress works in the favor of a possible presidential bid by Hilary Clinton

CHARLES FADDIS, former head of the CIA’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit:

• Russia’s “black energy” capabilities
• What would result from a Russian cyber attack on U.S. infrastructure?
• Insights on the effectiveness of American arming and aiding of rebel groups
• A WMD expert’s take on the chemical weapons found in Iraq and the looming nuclear deal with Iran

JACK DAVID, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and Negotiations Policy:

• Will a deal deter the Iranian mullahs' nuclear weapon ambitions?
• Prospects that the President will circumvent Congress to make an Iranian nuclear deal
• North Korea’s ability to put nuclear war heads and EMPs on long range missiles
• Implications of reducing the size of the American military

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

• China’s relative economic decline in comparison to the strengthening American dollar
• North Korea’s miniature nuclear device procurement
• Removal of a senior party official from Hong Kong in response to protests

STEWART BAKER, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, and former General Counsel of the National Security Agency:

• A look inside the cyber warfare domain
• Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric on an inevitable global war
• Repeated malfeasance in enforcing a resilient electric grid and hardened critical infrastructure
• Disunity between US agencies and security-minded organizations over the Snowden revelations and other recent national security leaks

PETER BERKOWITZ, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War”:

• Recent controversies in the U.S.-Israeli relationship
• Evidence that the Obama Administration is driving a wedge between the U.S. and Israel
• Security implications of an Iran nuclear deal for America and Israel

KATIE GORKA, President of the Council on Global Security:

• A new white paper, "The Flawed Science Behind America's Counter-Terrorism Strategy"
• Links between lone wolf terrorism and the global jihad
• Opening up an ideological front against radical Islam
• Ways the U.S. can learn from British successes in counterterrorism strategy

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Former Obama National Security Council member Quintan Wiktorowicz's interview with Gertz on the Administration’s counter ideological strategies
• The Chinese government’s involvement in cyber attacks against the U.S.
• Al Qaeda's threats against U.S. maritime and economic assets

Rep. PETER ROSKAM, of Illinois' 6th Congressional District:

• Fury over an unnamed White House official's vulgar criticism of Israeli PM Netanyahu
• The Obama Administration’s mishandling of Iranian nuclear talks
• Possible opportunities for the GOP to make changes after the midterm elections
• Indian PM Modi’s entrepreneurial spirit and the potential for the U.S. to build a positive long term relationship with India

ANNE CORCORAN, founder of Refugee Resettlement Watch:

• A history of U.S. refugee resettlement policy
• UN influence over American refugee quotas and demographics
• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s growing influence at the UN

BILL ROGGIO, Managing Editor of the Long War Journal:

• Why "lone wolf terrorism" is still a product of a greater ideological war
• Challenges faced by Afghan Security Forces as the International Forces withdraw
• The fluid state of territorial control in war-torn Iraq

MICHAEL BRAUN, co-founder of SGI Global and former Chief of Operations at the DEA:

• The outlook for Afghanistan's terror-linked poppy trade after the U.S. withdrawal
• Contributing factors to the Pena Nieto government's recent success against Mexican drug cartels
• Using "Plan Colombia" as a model for other narco-states

Dr. SHERKOH ABBAS, President of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria:

• Iran’s nefarious influence in conflict and ethnic divisions across the Middle East
• The inadequate U.S. support for the Kurds fighting the Islamic State
• Regional opposition to and subversion of Kurdish ambitions for an autonomous state

JIM HANSON, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Connections between so-called “Lone Wolf” attacks
• The Islamic State's possible possession of chemical WMDs
• Concerns about the Afghan security forces as U.K. and U.S. withdraw
• Implications of eliminating the use and stockpiles of U.S. land mines

RICHARD VIGUERIE, Founder of ConservativeHQ.com:

• An opportunity for conservative empowerment in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections
• The self-inhibiting hesitance of Republican leaders to nationalize elections
• Using online social media to quickly disseminate messages and empower politically conscious individuals

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

• Dutch politician Geert Wilder’s plan to save the West from the global jihad
• Connecting the dots of the “Lone Wolf” phenomenon
• The transformation of some American mosques into seedbeds for jihadist indoctrination