Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

JED BABBIN, Former US Deputy Undersecretary of Defense:

• The 'green-on-blue' killing of Major General Harold Greene in Afghanistan
• Worrisome findings from the National Defense Panel of a lopsided relationship between the US defense budget and needed military capabilities
• President Obama and Secretary Kerry working with Qatar and Turkey to negotiate a Gaza cease-fire
• The UN Human Rights Council's role in fostering anti-Israeli sentiments worldwide

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character":

• Afghanistan's bleak future as America continues its troop withdrawal
• Merits of impeaching the President while the Constitution still allows it
• High level Republican party members who refuse to acknowledge President Obama's impeachable offenses

Dr. PETER PRY, former Director of the Congressional EMP Commission:

• Is Obama's new initiative to increase access to electricity in Sub-saharan Africa worth the expense, considering the vulnerability of the US's own grid?
• NASA's estimation of a 12% chance that Earth will be hit by a major solar storm in the next decade
• A new bill to require DHS to prepare emergency plans for an electromagnetic pulse event

Amb. FRANCIS ROONEY, Former US Ambassador to the Vatican:

• Pope Francis's meeting with Meriam Ibrahim, a persecuted Sudanese Christian woman
• Is Pope Francis's fight for social justice overshadowing the need to combat violence in the name of religion?
• The worldwide threat posed by Shariah
  
• Concerns over the concentration of judicial authority in the hands of radical Islamists

Sen. JON KYL, former US Senator and Senate Minority Whip:

• What made Ronald Reagan so successful in dealing with Soviet treaty violations?
• Problems with the Administration's policy of not modernizing the most critical components of nuclear weapons
• Finding the balance between protecting classified sources and making informed responses to treaty violations

ANDY McCARTHY, author of "Faithless Execution: Making the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment":

• Examples used in Rep. John Boehner's lawsuit against President Obama for overreaching judicial and legislative actions
• "The Beltway Republican" solution to amnesty

MICHAEL WIDLANSKI, Former Strategic Affairs Advisor to Israel's Ministry of Public Security:

• Looking at Gaza as the world's first complete terror state--how did Hamas come to power?
• Making a case for using unequal force to defeat Hamas
• Evidence of collaboration between the Obama Administration and the Muslim Brotherhood
• How Israeli officials view the Obama Administration's behavior

ROGER NORIEGA, Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• A reestablishing of Russian-Cuban ties as Russia offers debt forgiveness and the restoration of an intelligence facility
• Arguing the need to recruit intelligence assets in the Caribbean Basin and resume diplomatic negotiations with Moscow and Havana
• The story of a top Venezuelan general who recently slipped past Western authorities in Aruba
• Overview of limited American economic sanctions against the Maduro government

TEVI TROY, Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

• Details of the water crisis in Toledo caused by a toxic algae
• Repatriation of two American doctors infected with Ebola in Western Africa
• A polio outbreak in Pakistan, made worse by a civilian distrust of western aid workers
• Public health issues associated with a massive influx of illegal immigrants into the US

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

• Chinese president Xi Jinping, the "Putin of Asia"
• Russian and Chinese takeaways from the US's indecisive foreign policy
• Beijing's increasingly aggressive posture towards its regional neighbors

MORT KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Examining why a ceasefire may not be in Israel's best interest
• What messages are America's actions sending to Israel?
• President Obama's unwise comfort level with the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist organizations

KEN JENSEN, Associate Director of the American Center for Democracy:

• Cyber threats facing the US and the government's response
• Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller's role in developing an arms control program to promote cyber stability

With Dinesh D'Souza, Bill Gertz, Mark Krikorian

DINESH D'SOUZA, Author of America: Imagine the World Without Her

Part One:

• What does Obama's "remaking" of America entail?
• Comparing the presidencies of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter
• Is this the end of an American era of global leadership?

Part Two:

• Shifts in the Middle East caused by a diminished American presence
• The Obama Doctrine
• Threats to the U.S. Military created by globalization
• Progressives' criticism of American Exceptionalism
• Looking at Hillary Clinton's upcoming presidential nomination bid as a proxy "third term for Obama"

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon and "Inside the Ring" Columnist at the Washington Times

• Strategic implications of Russia's violation of the INF Treaty
• DIA Director Lt. General Michael Flynn's comments about the worldwide rise of jihadist ideology
• Reports al Qaeda is possibly going to target America's critical infrastructure
• Suspicious Chinese behavior at the recent RIMPAC exercise

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies

• Do the US and other democracies have the will to protect their own borders and sovereignty?
• Senate and House attempts to respond to the illegal immigrant surge
• Analyzing the chances of comprehensive immigration reform

Ambassador DORE GOLD, Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations:

• A strategic threat analysis of the terror organization Hamas
• Israel's endgame in the Gaza conflict
• The state of the Israel-U.S. alliance in light of Secretary of State Kerry's ceasefire proposal, U.S. taxpayer dollars going to Hamas, and the temporary ban on American air travel into Israel

FAITH McDONNELL, of the Institute on Religion and Democracy:

• Dangers faced by the remaining Christians in Iraq
• The failure of the Obama Administration and others to condemn crimes committed against Christians worldwide
• Questioning why churches have not responded more strongly to persecution of Christians

Representative STEVE KING, IA-4:

• Congressional plans for immigration reform before the August recess
• Rep. Boehner's impending lawsuit against President Obama
• US support for Israel

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• President Obama's second 'reset' with Russia in the form of further economic sanctions
• Will Russian forces attempt a seizure of Eastern Ukraine as they did in Crimea?
• The State Department's lack of enforcement regarding missile defense treaties with Russia
• Senator Pat Leahy's version of the USA Freedom Bill

Representative DOUG LAMBORN (CO-5):

• The Obama Administration's belated response to Russia's violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty
• Rep. Lamborn's bipartisan letter to the UN calling for an investigation into human rights abuses committed by Hamas
• An argument for the need for Congressional action on immigration that addresses DACA and might help discourage future illegal immigration
• Protecting the electric grid from natural and man-made electromagnetic pulses

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character":

• The popular portrayal of moral ambivalence between Israel and Hamas
• Hamas' exploitation of Palestinian civilians for public relations purposes
• The current Administration's lackluster support for Israel despite its vocal criticism of Hamas

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• A discussion of Schneider's article that concluded that Russia has violated the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and which was followed a few hours after publication by the US government's acknowledgment of the violation
• Likelihood of a return to Cold War tensions
• Is there a correlation between Russian aggression and the lack of modernization of U.S. nuclear forces?

JIM HANSON, of Blackfive.net:

• Calls for Jesse Ventura to walk away from his newly-won defamation lawsuit against the estate of the late Navy Seal Chris Kyle
• PTSD and the validity of Rep. John Walsh's claim that the illness prompted him to plagiarize his Master's thesis
• Thoughts on who should be held responsible for the downing of the civilian airliner MH17

JOHN LEHMAN, Former Secretary of the US Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission:

• The 9/11 Commission's new publication, "Today's Rising Terrorist Threat and the Danger to the United States: Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report"
• The danger of complacency as the jihadist threat expands
• The United States Navy's current state of readiness

ANDY MCCARTHY, author of "Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment":

• Problems with a changing Western interpretation of the consistent Islamist doctrine
• U.S. Government support for Hamas
• Imprecision with the classification of "civilian" in the Israel/Hamas conflict
  
• Controversy over the inclusion of Turkey and Qatar—two of the largest state sponsors of terrorism—in the Israel/Hamas talks

JOHN KAPPENMAN, owner of Storm Analysis Consultants:

• Lessons learned from the solar flare that barely missed Earth two years ago
• An assessment of the threat posed by future solar activity

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

• Recent internal purges within the Chinese Communist Party
• The Second Cold War that Russia and China are waging against the United States
• Increasing threats against American businesses in China

Part 1: HANS VON SPAKOVSKY- author of Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Deapartment (HarperCollins/Broadside June 2014):

• The unique position of the Attorney General in the Presidential cabinet
• Eric Holder's role in controversial pardons of an international fugitive and 16 convicted terrorists

Part 2:

• Eric Holder's misuse of prosecutorial discretion to selectively enforce or ignore laws
• The Department of Justice's failure to investigate allegations of voter fraud

Part 3:

• Fitting the Justice Department's projects—such as Fast and Furious—into the agenda of the Obama Administration
• DoJ's tendency to ignore federal laws concerning illegal immigration and Guantanamo Bay prisoner transfers/releases
• Concerns that the DoJ plans to shift back to a pre-9/11 model and treat terrorists as ordinary criminals

Part 4:

• DoJ's hiring of government officials with possible ties to radical groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood
• The Obama Administration's approach to confronting material support for terrorism
• Is the US facing a constitutional crisis?

Representative ADAM KINZINGER (IL-16):

• The need for Hamas to accept Israel's right to exist before a long-term peace agreement can be reached
• A comparison of Russian aggression to that of pre-WWII Germany
• Congressional efforts to stop the controversial sale of French amphibious assault ships to Russia
• Extent of the dangers the electric grid faces from man-made and naturally occurring threats

BRUCE BECHTOL, author of "North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-Un Era":

• New court ruling that found North Korea has provided material support to Hezbollah's attacks on Israel
• Whereabouts of a North Korean ship acting suspiciously in the Gulf of Mexico, and the potential implications for US national security
• The status of inter-state trade relations in East Asia

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, President of Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• Differences between French and American perspectives on the Israeli-Hamas conflict
• Anti-Semitic riots in France in response to Israeli strikes on Gaza
• Immigration's impact on France's demographics

BILL ROGGIO, The Long War Journal:

• Pros and cons of pursuing a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Benefits Hamas' public image has received from the media coverage of Israeli air strikes
• Status update on the Islamic State, and predictions on what is coming next as battle lines in Iraq begin to stabilize
• Rising Taliban activity in Afghanistan as US military influence declines

GEN. JACK KEANE, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army:

• What are the US military's options for transforming ISIS from an offensive organization into a defensive one?
• The prudence of reconsidering the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of recent events in Iraq
• Implications of the planned assistance to Syrian rebels for conflicts in Syria and Iraq

FRED FLEITZ, of Lignet and the Center for Security Policy:

• Questioning a recent report that the NSA and CIA spied on Americans based solely on the basis of religion
• What is the Obama Administration's plan for the extended nuclear talks with Iran?
• Update on the Alibaba initial public offering

ZACK TAYLOR, founder of the National Association of Border Patrol Officers:

• Health concerns related to the surge of illegal immigrants entering the United States
• Response of border patrol agents to the immigration crisis

FAITH McDONNELL, Institute on Religion and Democracy at the Institute on Religion and Democracy

• Meriam Ibrahim's recent arrival in Italy, weeks after being released from a Sudanese prison
  
• An overview of the timeline regarding Ibrahim's imprisonment and first attempt to leave Sudan
• The imposition of Shariah law in Sudan