Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Representative ANDREA BOLAND reflects on the efforts she has made to protect her native state Maine and the the rest of the country from growing EMP threats.

ROGER NORIEGA, of American Enterprise and Inter-American Security Watch, looks south of the border at the upcoming visits of John Kerry to Brazil and Colombia, power loss for President Fernandez of Argentina, and Mexico's war against narcotic drug king pins.

STEVEN BUCCI, US Colonel and Director of the Allison Center at the Heritage Foundation, examines US relationship with Russia, US Military budget cuts, sexual assaults in the military, and the threat of an EMP strike.

GORDON CHANG, of Forbes.com, addresses the conflicting reports on the growth of the Chinese economy, as well as looks into the relationship between North Korea and Cuba.

LELA GILBERT, adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and editorial consultant at Jerusalem Post, joins Frank for an hour special on her new book "Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner". Lela starts the hour by reflecting on the jihadist's view of Jews and the West by exploring the origins of the term "Saturday and Sunday people".

Throughout the hour, Lela explores a wide variety of topics including: Hezbollah and their stance in the world; the cheapening of the South African apartheid struggle by the terms use in Palestine; the necessity of the wall, and much much more.

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, of the Washington Times, investigates the idea of socially engineering the military by implanting women in combat, among other things, and looks at how lowering the standards of the military to allow more women into combat poses a large danger to the quality of the military.

KORI SCHAKE, of the Hoover Institution, puts into prospective the relationship between the US and Russia, including how Russian policy is anti-American and how Russia is longing to be a Cold War superpower once again.

MICHAEL RUBIN, of AEI, focuses in on the chaos happening in every corner of the Middle East and looks at how the radical Islamists in the region are growing more aggressive towards the US.

CHRISTIAN WHITON, of the DC international Advisory, analyzes the collapse of Obama's progressive doctrine to the world as well as looks into how the president has started to be perceived as weak on the world stage.

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy and Founder of Freeman Global Investment, examines the economic war and what it would mean if Russia and China are successful in demoting the US dollar from the base currency for the Federal Reserve; he also takes a brief look at EMPs and the damage that could be done to the US economy.

HELLE DALE, Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the War of Ideas, the Obama administration's policy of apologizing for America, and the Tweeter War.

GERALD STEINBERG, of NGO Moniter, gives his opinion on Iran's new president, the non-existent relationship between Israel and Palestine ,and what he feels are underlying anti-Zionist motives from organizations such as the Human Rights Watch.

FRED FLEITZ, of Lignet.com, deeply explores the relationship between the U.S. and Russia in light of the recent snub this week by President Obama towards Russian President Putin and upcoming meetings between the two countries other top leaders.

RALPH PETERS, retired US Lieutenant Colonel and New York Post Columnist, touches on an array of topics including; Bradley Manning, political correctness in the military, Nidal Hasan, and women in combat.

TOM DONNELLY, of AEI, examines the ongoing hollowing out of the military and the problems this is creating in the present and will create in the near future for American power.

DIANA WEST, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, reflects on Extortion 17, which involved the deaths of 15 Navy Seals in 2011, and why she believes the government has been covering up the truth behind this tragic event for the past two years.

ROBERT ZUBRIN, author of Merchants of Despair and founder of Pioneer Astronautics, explores the issue of oil dependency, specifically pertaining to the feared attacks in Yemen on the oil infrastructure, OPEC control of the market, and the ease of converting American cars to multi-fuel vehicles

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor, discusses the start of the Nidal Hasan trial, as well as the situation in Egypt and the Islamist influences that still exist in the country.

CLIFFORD MAY, of the Foundation For Defense Of Democracies, gives a deeper analysis of the current threat posed by Al-Qaeda in the wake of a mass closure of US embassies and dispels the Obama administration's past suggestions that the core of Al-Qaeda had been diminished enough to not be a viable threat.

ROGER NORIEGA, of American Enterprise Institute, examines the political opposition in Venezuela and the status of the Maduro's government. Roger also examines Iran's presence in the Americas and the situation in Cuba with the resurgence of a Russian alliance.

CLARE LOPEZ, of Clarion Project.org, dissects the Iranian lobby in the United States and how the new Iranian President is anything from being moderate.

JOHN BOLTON, former US Ambassador to the UN, reflects on what the Al Qaeda threat that has prompted the closing of US embassies and missions in the Middle East and North Africa shows about President Obama's foreign policy failures in that region over the last five years.

GORDON CHANG, of Forbes.com, exposes the flaw in the administration's plan to strip Lajas Air Force Base, a base strategically located in the Azores Islands, of most of the base's personnel, making it a ghost base and subsequently allowing Chinese power to move in and threaten the region and the United States.

DAVID SATTER, of the Hudson Institute, analyzes Russia's response to hold onto Edward Snowden and its impact on a policy "reset," the threat assessment of Snowden, and his self-image as a human rights activist.

ROBERT SPRINGBORG, Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, examines a paper written by the current leader of Egypt, General Abdul Fatah Al-Sissi, that dissects Islam and its compatibility to democracy, as well as looks at how the current leader is different from his predecessor in terms of his lack of desire for a transnational Islamic agenda.

US Congressman MIKE ROGERS of the third district of Alabama explains why he proposed an amendment (now successfully passed) to the Defense Appropriations bill for 2014 in response to President Obama's lack of clarity on how he plans to carry out the treaty obligations of New START.

PAULINE OLVERA, of the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, explains the need for the Immigration narrative to be changed and for countries' governments like, Mexico, to be held accountable for their citizens overwhelming desire to immigrate to the United States in search of better living and work conditions.

BILL GERTZ, of the Washington Free Beacon, examines the Russian reset, Russia's decision to not return Snowden to the US and President Obama's plan of nuclearization.

FRED GRANDY, of the Center for Security Policy, gives his take on several different issues including; Benghazi, NSA and privacy and Huma Abedin.

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute, explains the science behind the heightened EMP threat during a solar maximum. Wohlstetter also describes the new technology that is supposed to make it easier to make sure ships carrying nuclear weapons do not enter US ports.

JIM HANSON, of Blackfive.net, looks at the recent Bradley Manning verdict as well as Russia's power play to grant Edward Snowden political asylum, thus making it legally impossible for the United States to prosecute Snowden for at least a year.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist in Residence at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks about the failed Russian reset and Iran's attempt to become rapporteur for the UN disarmament committee, one of the six main committees of the UN General Assembly.

FRED FLEITZ, of LIGNET.com, analyzes Russia's role in the Snowden scandal and asks the question: "Where is Obama in all of this?"

ERICK STAKELBECK, author of the new book "The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy," spends a special two part segment with Frank to delve deeper into radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the invasion of radical Islam into the United States perpetrated not only by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, but also by individuals with undue influence in the government.

CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principle at DC Advisory LLC , examines the current situation within Egypt, Huma Abedin's past career within the State Department, and the upcoming peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

DIANA WEST, author of American Betrayal, analyzes Huma Abedin's background, her career within the State Department, and her connection to terrorist networks.