Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

REPRESENTATIVE RANDY WEBER, Texas’s 14th District

• The porousness of the southern border serving as a magnet for human trafficking
• Implications of providing aid to the illegal immigrants crossing the border: where does it end?
• Details of Rep. Weber’s new bill to hold Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador accountable for the surge of illegal immigrants crossing the US's southern border
• Public health concerns over the thousands of illegal aliens entering the US without medical examinations

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

• President Obama's request for nearly four billion dollars to stem the waves of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border
  
• The creation of a future Democratic voting base in traditionally conservative states along the border thanks to lax immigration enforcement
• Similarities in crises facing the United States and Israel

STUART POOLE-ROBB, former MI6 and UK military intelligence officer:

• A look at Dragonfly, the foreign cyber-attack group that has spread malware to spy on—and potentially sabotage—US and EU energy companies
• Dangers of cyber-terror to the electric grid

Admiral JAMES "ACE" LYONS, Former Commander and Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Head of the Center for Security Policy's Military Committee:

• Iran's attempts to conceal its nuclear facilities from international inspectors, as the talks approach their deadline
• Evidence for Iranian involvement in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
• Is a Iranian/U.S. alliance wise to help defend Iraq against the Islamic State?

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com:

• Chinese internet giant Ali Baba's plans to enter the US capital markets
• China's strategy for South Korea
• Chinese-Taiwanese relations

ROBIN SIMCOX, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society:

• Background of ISIS leader Al Baghdadi and the current state of the newly-declared Caliphate
• Reasons why ISIS is able to hold large amounts of territory while still having a relatively small fighting force
• The fight between Al Qaeda and ISIS, and what notable Jihadi clerics in the region think about the group
• Ways the threat in Iraq may spread to the West

CAROLINE GLICK, author of "The Israeli Solution":

• Fatah's incitement of violence towards Israelis in response to the murder of a Palestinian teen
• Why the Obama administration's support for the newly formed Fatah-Hamas Unity Government is in breach of US law
• Ways the US can support Israel

ANDY MCCARTHY, author of "Faithless Execution":

• Insights on the trial of recently caught Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khattalah
• Lawlessness in the Obama Administration
• Reasons that members of the Executive Branch could be impeached for their actions

Kenneth Timmerman author of "Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi":

Part 1:

• The Iranian presence in Benghazi during the Embassy attacks 
• Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian spy chief who helped plan the Benghazi attack
• The weapons pipeline from Libya to Syria

Part 2:

• A shipment of stinger missiles that went missing within Libya- where did they end up?
• Iran's dual motivations for assisting the attack on the US facility in Benghazi
• The failure of multiple administrations to punish Iran for its role in American deaths in Iraq and elsewhere- has this encouraged further hostile acts?

Part 3:

• Recent negotiations as seen through the lens of the Iranian Regime
• The inherent risks in supporting the MEK, an Iranian opposition group
• Hilary Clinton's decisions analyzed in the days just after the September 11, 2012 Benghazi U.S. consulate attack

Part 4:

• Who ordered the stand down during the Benghazi attacks that grounded a rescue mission?
• Strategic interests shifting US focus away from Iraq

Part One:

• Finding the link between Shariah, jihad, and the Caliphate

Part Two:

• Jihadists’ use of influence operations in the West
• The importance of “knowing your enemy” in war
• A new computer worm with suspected Russian-ties that has infected US energy infrastructure

Part Three:

• Chinese military modernization and top military power aspirations
• A look at the dramatic decrease in democratic states in Latin America over the last 30 years
• Concern over potential terrorists entering the US alongside the surge of minor illegal immigrants

Part Four:

• Reasons behind the US’s failure to secure the southern border
• Assessment of the current state and trajectory of the United States military

JOHN HANNAH, Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney:

• Examining the likelihood of current negotiations actually curbing Iranian nuclear ambitions
  
• Prospect of the Obama Administration and Iran conducting a constructive joint military action against the Islamic State
  
• An argument that in the current Iraqi sectarian crisis, President Obama must assert his leverage against Iraqi and regional leaders

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

• Interpreting the failure to anticipate ISIS' rise as a policy, rather than intelligence, problem
  
• Concerns about Obama's request for $500 million to train "moderate" Syrian rebels
  
• Incoherence in the allies chosen by the United States on either side of the Iraq-Syria border
  
• The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's findings regarding foreign electronic surveillance

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, former CIA and House Armed Services Committee Staff Member:

• The Electric Infrastructure Security Council's London Conference on threats to electrical grid capabilities
  
• Physical attacks in San Jose, C.A., Nogales, A.Z., Mexico, and Yemen that show serious vulnerabilities of electric grids
  
• Cyber-war against U.S./European electrical grids from the new 'Dragon Fly' computer worm
  
• What are steps the U.S. can take to defend herself from the threats of tomorrow?

BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon:

• Predictions that the dismissal of a high-ranking general from the Communist Party may lead to further instability in the Chinese Government
  
• Chinese military enhancement in the form of a new attack submarine and cyber-intelligence center
  
• Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel meets with military Chiefs of Staff to combat threat from newly-created Islamic State

DAVID BELLAVIA, a Silver Star recipient for his actions during the Second Battle of Fallujah:

•   An Iraq veteran's perspective on what the US is losing with the advance of ISIS

•   Problems with depending on drones to win the War on Terror

•   Putin or Iran: which is the US's worse enemy in the Middle East?

JOHN WAGNER, Department of the Army, CENTCOM

•   The information war fought by the U.S. in the early years of the Iraq War

•   The propaganda and social media expertise of ISIS as seen through their manipulation of popular media

•   The U.S. lacking the resources to influence Iraqi Sunni's due to the abrupt troop withdrawal in 2011

MICHAEL O'HANLON, Senior Fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution

•   The potential for a new Iraqi government- how can we get Sunnis in the provinces controlled by ISIS to buy in?

•   The need for a new regime in Iraq

•   The potential benefits of a Sunni autonomous region and the need for a unity government in Baghdad to facilitate its implementation

KEVIN COLEMAN, Cybersecurity expert at Project Times

•   How the United States should respond to Chinese cybercrime

•   The need to develop trust with the American people regarding domestic intelligence gathering

The importance of proactive cybersecurity measures

Andy McCarthy, former federal prosecutor:

• Ahmed Abu Khatallah's first court appearance in the US, and the implications of his entry into the criminal justice system
• Boehner's decision to sue Obama--assessing alternative methods to reign in the use of executive power

BRAD PATTY: former member of the Iraq Advisory Task Force:

• Prospects for the emergence of, and the benefits of having, an independent Kurdistan in the Middle East
• Ways US support for an independent Kurdish state could affect the rest of Iraq

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of "Latin America in the Post Chavez Era":

• Analysis and status of a Venezuela sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress
• Human rights in Venezuela
• U.S. foreign policy role, strategy, and obligations in Latin America
• U.S. interests in and national security threats from the Venezuelan regime and its relationships with Iran, Hezbollah, and the FARC

MICHAEL RUBIN, a former Pentagon official and author of "Dancing With the Devil":

• The US intelligence failure of not detecting ISIS's plans for Iraq, and problems with the American response to the crisis
• What can the US do at this point to help Iraq?

With Adam Kredo, Joe Davis, Gordon Chang, Jose Cardenas. Jim Hanson guest hosts.

ADAM KREDO, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon:

• The US's surprise at ISIS' sudden rise in Iraq
• Is there anything at this point the US can do to turn the situation in Iraq around?

JOE DAVIS, Director of Public Affairs at Veterans of Foreign Wars:

• The future of the VA after the outing of Eric Shinseki
• An update on the situation of imprisoned Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi and what the public can do to help free him
• How some US veterans feel about the unraveling situation in Iraq

GORDON CHANG, of Forbes.com:

• China's participation in the RIMPAC naval exercises and what the Obama Administration thinks the future of this partnership can be
• Update on Chinese aggression in East Asia
• Irony of the US partnering with China in a cybersecurity working group, in light of the threats China poses to American intellectual property

JOSE CARDENAS, former USAID Acting Assistant for Latin America and the Caribbean:

• The humanitarian and national security crisis on the US's Southern Border
• The contribution of the "push" factor in unstable environments in Central America that have led to the immigration crisis
• Should the United States play a more active role in Latin America?

SIDNEY POWELL, former Assistant US Attorney and author of the new book, "Licensed to Lie," discusses prosecutorial misconduct in the Department of Justice for a special full hour. 

BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of The Long War Journal:

• ISIS' ambitions to extend into Jordan and Lebanon
• The financial strength of ISIS and how state-sponsored terrorism is facilitating sectarian conflict in the Middle East
• Should the administration rethink its troop withdrawal policy towards Afghanistan, given recent events in Iraq?

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

• ISIS' origins
• Political intelligence failures of the Obama Administration
• The controversies surrounding the use of drones
• Next steps in the legal system for Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khatallah

Congressman JOHN CARTER, of the 31st Congressional District of Texas:

• President Obama's role in the skyrocketing amount of undocumented immigrants seeking amnesty in the U.S.
• How the border patrol, police, Texas and the United States are being affected by the surge of illegal immigrants
• Ideas for what the U.S. should do to handle the influx of illegal immigrants

BILL GERTZ, senior editor of The Washington Free Beacon:

• China's inclusion in RIMPAC, a large international naval exercise: What message does it send to America's allies in the Pacific?
• Russia's recent cruise missile tests amid international tensions over the Ukraine situation
• Implications of a recent successful test of the US missile defense system
• North Korean outrage over a new film about American journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong Un