Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Implications of what is taking place in Afghanistan
• Ripple effects in the Middle East from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Impacts on the US from the fall of Afghanistan
• Is China paying attention to the United States' actions in the Middle East?
• Assessing the relationship between China the Taliban

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• What is the Resolute Protector Foundation?
• How the Afghanistan situation represents US leadership
• The interconnectedness of the US and Chinese economies

With Gordon Chang, Chad Robichaux and Caroline Glick

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Gordon Chang: The Chinese want proprietary information to both blackmail Americans and advance their own social credit system
• Chang: The recent buildup of missile silos in China shows that the Chinese Communists are no longer pursuing “minimal deference” but actual war fighting capabilities
• Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s potential extradition to the U.S. and how China is interfering in Canada’s justice system
• Will Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hand Meng back to the Chinese? 

CHAD ROBICHAUX, Former Recon Marine, Eight Deployments to Afghanistan, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force, Founder, Might Oaks Foundation, @ChadRobo 

• Chad Robichaux talks about his time in the U.S. Marine Corps during his deployments to Afghanistan and the trauma inflicted upon him
• Abandoning Allies Is Current American Policy
• Robichaux discusses his important initiative meant to help veterans cope with PTSD

CAROLINE GLICK, Contributor, Newsweek, Author, "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East," Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Caroline Glick's Mideast News Hour, @CarolineGlick

• Caroline Glick: Iran has been trying to build an empire since 1979 - Islamic Imperialism
• Glick: The Biden Administration has just one policy towards Iran, and that is to appease them. And if appeasement doesn’t work, they will appease them some more
• Glick argues that the issues facing the Iranian people today are not military but a social and political problems - Armed intervention is not needed solve the problems

With Roger Robinson and Lawrence Sellin

ROBER ROBINSON, President and CEO, RWR Advisory Group, Former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, White House (1982-1985), Former Chairman, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder, Prague Security Studies Institute

• Roger Robinson explains why the Chinese government decided to label Chinese ride-sharing giant DiDi a national security risk - $16.4 billion of the company’s value disappeared overnight
• In July 2021 alone, U.S. investors lost over $400 billion in the Chinese tech sector
• A-Shares: Chinese companies traded in places with booming markets, like Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Shanghai, that are picked up by index providers which then convert said companies into exchange traded funds - Eventually making their way to the portfolios of unwitting Americas via companies like Black Rock, Inc.

LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, @LawrenceSellin

• Lawrence Sellin: “Scientific chain migration” in the 1990s allowed Chinese researchers to populate every avenue of the U.S. medical industry
• Sellin: COVID-19 was intentionally designed to make it look like it came from nature
• Sellin: The political elites, a.k.a, the Globalists, in the U.S. don’t see America as a country, but as a land with people to exploit

With Kerry Gershaneck and Gelet Fragela

KERRY GERSHANECK, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Senior Research Associate, Thammasat University Faculty of Law, former US Marine Corp officer, Author, "Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to 'Win Without Fighting:'"

• Kerry Gershaneck: For China to annex Taiwan, it needs to “knock Japan out of play”
• Academia, by-and-large, does not talk about the People’s Republic of China’s political warfare anymore - “Willful disregard” or something more dubious?
• Gershaneck: We need to set the precedent with Japan, which needs to get more serious towards the China threat, i.e. beefing up counterintelligence laws, etc.

GELET FRAGELA, Cuban Political Refugee, Journalist and Founder, ADN Cuba

• Gelet Fragela: The Cuban regime has been engaged in a political cleansing for years - I believe it's the moral duty of the leaders of the free world to refuse to recognize the regime as the legitimate leaders of Cuba
• Decree 349: Prohibiting free express through art
• Fragela: The Cuban people were not asking for more internet, medicine…The Cuban people understand that in order to have all of those things, all they need is freedom

With Nick Adams and Amb. Pete Hoekstra

NICK ADAMS, Former Presidential Appointee, Trump Administration, Four-Time Best-Selling Author, "Trump and Reagan: Defenders of America," Founder and Director, Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG), @NickAdamsinUSA 

• Nick Adams: Critical race theory is the defamation of the United States of America
• Adams: Republicans always cave, which is why we are in the situation we are today - For the last 60 years, the Left has wanted to destroy America more than we wanted to protect it
• The comparisons between Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

AMB. PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy, @Petehoekstra

• Pete Hoekstra: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to exclude Rep. Banks and Jordan from the 1/6 Committee had everything to do about their politics and nothing to do about their integrity
• Hoekstra: There are a lot more qualified people than Rep. Eric Swalwell who should be sitting on the Intelligence Committee
• Hoekstra: My assessment at that point was, they [the Chinese Communist Party] weaponized COVID-19 to further their political and economic ambitions

With Kyle Shideler, Bill Walton and Sam Faddis

KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," @ShidelerK

• Kyle Shideler: 66% of Americans want an investigation into the 2020 Summer riots - But some politicians, like  Nancy Pelosi, are seemingly not interested in getting to the bottom of things
• Shideler talks about the “very deliberate” attempts on the part of Speaker Pelosi and others to compare the events of Jan 6th to the riots of Summer 2020
• Shideler: Why am I more concerned about left wing, as opposed to right wing, extremism?

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton delves into Jamie “Life in the Fast Lane” Diamond’s recent exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo
• Will Jerome Powell continue to serve as the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve - Who else could best implement Modern Monetary Theory?
• Walton: The powers that be at the CDC think that they are doing something noble protecting the little guy from getting evicted. In fact, it portrays just more stupidity on the part of these people running the agency - About 75% of small rental units are owned by small business owners

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis: Landlords are being told by an unelected bureaucrat that they no longer are in control of their property
• Faddis: Most of the western nations decided decades ago that biological warfare would be prohibited - No matter what the Chinese have said, they reject this entire notion
• Faddis: We do not know for certain whether Rep. Eric Swalwell is still a reporting source to Chinese intelligence

With Kenneth DeGraffenreid, Grant Newsham and Robert Spencer

KENNETH DEGAFFENREID, Former Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive, Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Support, Department of Defense, Former Senior Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council, Senior Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Founding Member of the Board of Overseers, The Institute for World Politics

• Counterintelligence as a partner to security, i.e. putting locks on the doors - But, unfortunately, security is not America’s greatest strong suit
• DeGraffenreid, one of the original editors of the Cox Report, talks about how China has for years infiltrated not only America’s nuclear weapons industry but also American society as a whole
• DeGraffenreid: People like Rep. Eric Swalwell are in every sense “agents of influence”
• In the 1940s, when Soviet espionage continued in earnest in this country, there were a lot of people in the New Deal who came to Washington who were warmly sympathetic to the “Soviet Experiment,” which made them “fertile spies”

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant

• Grant Newsham explains why Xi Jinping’s China is cracking down on private technology companies: It’s all about power
• Newsham talks about Chase CEO Jamie Diamond’s recent, “living in the fast lane,” comment on Fox News’ Maria in the Morning
• The U.S. needs to develop a Japanese Defense Force that is capable of fighting their own wars

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and forthcoming, "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS 

• The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, Big Tech's counterterror arm, has labeled Robert Spencer’s organization Jihad Watch a violent extremist entity - Why?
• Robert Spencer: If the U.S. government starts to the strip tax-exempt status from groups whose politics are not their own, this sets up a dangerous precedent for various conservative non-profits

With Harold Rhode, Gen. Jerry Boykin and Mike Mabee

HAROLD RHODE, Former Senior Official at the Pentagon, Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, @HaroldRhodes

• Why is the Iranian government building a large port outside the Strait of Hormuz in Jask?
• Harold Rhode: The Iranian people need to know that the outside world stands with them against the tyranny of this regime and that we admire their culture
• Rhode explains why the U.S. war in Afghanistan failed: “You do your work and you get out”

GEN. (RET.) WILLIAM G. BOYKIN, Executive Vice President, Family Research Council, original Member, U.S. Army's Delta Force, @GenBoykin

• Gen. Jerry Boykin: It is important for Americans to understand that those members of Congress sitting on intelligence committees, such as Rep. Eric Swalwell, by virtue of the level of clearance they have, “literally have the lives of Americans in their hands”
• Gen. Boykin: It’s going to take strong leadership to come in behind Joe Biden to restore our military
• This is no time to be weakening our defenses

MIKE MABEE, Author, "The Civil Defense Book," Retired US Army Command Sergeant Major, Secure the Grid Coalition, michaelmabee.info:

• Secret Penalties: The Electric Grid Is Making You Pay Their Fines
• Mike Mabee: There’s quite a bit of evidence that California’s mandatory vegetation standards are not working
• What happened in February 2021 in Texas also happened in 2011 and 1989: There's a cycle of the Texas grid being gravely unprepared for cold weather
• In over 1,500 incidents where electric companies have been cited in federal probes, the companies themselves have not be unmasked - Why?
• There have been 720 physical attacks against the U.S electric grid in the last decade
• Why did the electric utility industry come out against Mabee’s objections to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?

With Robert Charles, Trevor Loudon and Victoria Coates

ROBERT CHARLES, Spokesman, Association of Mature American Citizens, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," @RCharles4USA

• Robert Charles: Runaway spending in Washington has caused the passage of unprecedented trillion-dollar bills
• China has gone over and above in Latin America to instill its influence either by training Cuba’s black berets, signing mining deals, etc.
• What are the two greatest and most misunderstood threats to the U.S. today?
• Charles: The bigger concern is not a virus or vaccine, it’s the indoctrination of our troops

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, The Enemies Within (Documentary and Book), @TrevorLoudon1

• Trevor Loudon: A classic recruitment operation was underway in the case of Eric Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang
• “The Enemies within the Church”: Exposing a clear line between previous Communist infiltrations of the Catholic Church and its connections to the woke movement today

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, National Security Council, Author, "David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art," @VictoriaCoates

• What is the future of open and free transit through the Strait of Hormuz?
• Victoria Coates: China is going to use Iran as a gas station as much as it can
• Coates: Iran’s new President, Ebrahim Raisi, isn’t even going to pretend being a moderate anymore

With Lee Smith, Robert Joseph and Sam Faddis

LEE SMITH, Media Columnist, Tablet Magazine, Contributor, New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Real Clear Investigations and the Federalist, Author, "The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted The American President," @LeeSmithDC

• Lee Smith: “We’ve entered a stage where the ruling class…[is] destroying the idea of citizenship that binds this country together…we are seeing a decaying regime”
• Smith talks about how the elites sold-off the U.S. to Communist China in parts: “The middle-class wealth [China] drained was not Chinese, it was American”
• Smith: We have political prisoners here in the U.S. that are being held by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice

ROBERT JOSEPH, Senior Scholar, National Institute for Public Policy, Former Under Secretary of State, Arms Control and International Security and Special Envoy for Nonproliferation (2005-2007), Former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council (2001-2004)

• Robert Joseph: China’s build-up of enhanced nuclear weapons runs counter to the arms control community’s narrative of “no first use”
• Joseph: How do you have a strategic stability discussion with Russia and leave China out?
• Joseph: If we don’t act now and put together a comprehensive strategy to counter China’s military might by 2049, we will loose

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis: If you are perpetuating anything that Joshua Geltzer labels as, “misinformation,” you can be denoted as a violent, domestic extremist
• Faddis: In Geltzer’s view, you can have free speech, only if it is based on an agreed, or approved, upon set of facts
• Faddis: Chinese intelligence successfully elected Rep. Eric Swalwell to public office - We have no way of knowing whether is Swalwell a Chinese spy