Secure Freedom Minute
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago -One minute of national security with Frank Gaffney
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‘Heart of Nuba’ and Bashir’s Enabler, John Boehner
May 02, 2018 15:54 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. “Heart of Nuba” is a critically acclaimed film documenting in microcosm the horrific – but largely unremarked – outrage of our time: the brutal persecution of an estimated 215 million Christians around the world. The film reveals the plight of the people of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan and American Dr. Tom Catena who has, for over a decade, been heroically caring for these latest victims of genocidal attacks by the Sharia-supremacist Sud...
Bibi’s Kiss-of-Death for the Obamabomb Deal
May 01, 2018 15:53 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu delivered what should be the death blow to the national security fraud John Kerry once acknowledged was nothing more than a “political understanding” with Iran. President Trump has long and properly denounced this Obamabomb deal as the worst one in history. Mr. Netanyahu disclosed that his country had managed to steal half-a-ton of secret Iranian materials documenting the mullahs’ nuclea...
Shariah-supremacism’s Assault in Michigan, and America
April 30, 2018 15:53 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The “civilization jihad” is underway in Michigan. That’s the stealthy, subversive warfare the Muslim Brotherhood employs to “destroy Western civilization from within.” The Brotherhood and other Sharia-supremacists insinuate themselves and their influence operations into government, the media, schools, popular culture, businesses, other faith communities and politics. And anyone who notices – let alone objects – is slandered as an “Islam...
Is South Korea Seeking a Separate Peace?
April 27, 2018 15:52 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The leftist elected leader of South Korea and North Korea’s megalomaniacal tyrant performed a highly choreographed diplomatic mating-dance today, touting unity on the Korean peninsula and setting the stage for President Donald Trump and the North’s Kim Jong-un to do the same. Unfortunately, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in seems to be seeking a separate peace with the North. That would legitimate, and help perpetuate the horrifyingly brutal N...
The Public Wants - and Deserves - New Leadership in Congress NOW
April 26, 2018 15:51 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump ran for president against the political establishment in Washington. He memorably affirmed his hostility toward “the Swamp” during his inaugural address, infuriating its denizens arrayed on the Capitol stage behind him. The bipartisan establishment has been exacting its revenge ever since. The Senate has badly stalled most of Mr. Trump’s nominees. His “Wall” has gone unfunded. He has been saddled with bloated spending dem...
Memo to SCOTUS - Affirm Presidential Authority to Exclude Dangerous Immigrants
April 25, 2018 15:51 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Historically, presidents of both parties have determined who can come to the United States. That’s because the Founders and Congress have wisely given the nation’s Chief Executive the authority to make that call. Donald Trump ran for the White House pledging to stop importing radical Islamic terrorists – an eminently sensible, necessary and very popular idea. To do so, President Trump decided to restrict immigration from failed and host...
It’s Time for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
April 24, 2018 15:50 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The United States is poised to have a new Secretary of State with the ability to be among our best. President Trump deserves great credit for nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the job and for helping persuade the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s deciding vote, Republican Senator Rand Paul, to support him yesterday. Of course, the full Senate has to go along, too. But with Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin and Jo...
Secretary Pompeo for Peace Through Strength
April 23, 2018 15:49 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In 2016, the American people elected a President who promised to return to the practice Ronald Reagan called “peace through strength.” They were responding to the appalling failures of the Obama administration’s national security policies. Donald Trump’s victory was also a popular rejection of the prospect of more of the same under Mr. Obama’s first Secretary of State. Mr. Trump has now nominated Mike Pompeo as his second Secretary of S...
An Urgent Warning of War in the Pacific
April 20, 2018 15:49 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Admiral Philip Davidson, who’s been nominated to lead U.S. forces in the Pacific, warned Congress this week that – short of war – the Chinese are now capable of controlling the strategic South China Sea. He added that there is “no guarantee” the United States would win such a war if it occurred. This ominous reality has been developing for decades, accelerated by the eight-year wrecking operation conducted by Barack Obama against the U...
Will Democratic Senators Scupper Trump’s North Korea Diplomacy?
April 19, 2018 15:48 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump is engaged in the highest-stakes diplomacy since Ronald Reagan walked away from talks with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland three decades ago. Yesterday, Mr. Trump commendably made clear that he, too, is prepared to abort his summit with North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un. His decision will be informed by the intelligence collected and analyzed under the leadership of CIA Director Mike Pompeo – some of it obtaine...
Turkey is an Ally No More
April 18, 2018 15:47 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Turkey is an ally no more. That’s the conclusion of a new book from the Center for Security Policy Press addressing the ominous transformation of a long-time secular Muslim nation and reliable member of NATO into an ever-more Sharia-supremacist, hostile and dangerous state. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to become the next Caliph of a neo-Ottoman empire. He’s embracing U.S. adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. His fo...
Turkey is an Ally No More
April 18, 2018 15:47 - 1 minute - 1.09 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Turkey is an ally no more. That’s the conclusion of a new book from the Center for Security Policy Press addressing the ominous transformation of a long-time secular Muslim nation and reliable member of NATO into an ever-more Sharia-supremacist, hostile and dangerous state. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to become the next Caliph of a neo-Ottoman empire. He’s embracing U.S. adversaries like Russia, China and Ira...
President Trump - Just Say ‘No’ to Gulftainer
April 17, 2018 15:46 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump recently blocked the takeover of an important American strategic asset by a potentially hostile entity. He must do it again, now. In March, Mr. Trump prevented Broadcom, a Singapore-based proxy for Communist China, from gaining control of its U.S. competitor, Qualcomm. Today, Gulftainer, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, is poised to take control of the strategically located port of Wilmington, Delaware. Un...
The U.S. May Need a Chemical Arsenal to Deter Chemical Attacks
April 16, 2018 15:43 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. This weekend’s elaborately choreographed, devastating and expensive aerial bombardment of Syria by the United States, Great Britain and France highlighted an alarming reality: The three facilities targeted represent just part of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal. And Assad’s arsenal likely pales compared to those of his allies: Russia, Iran and China. And none of them is supposed to exist. All four nations are p...
Rep. Hunter’s Right - CFIUS Must Review Gulftainer Port Deals
April 13, 2018 11:37 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Port of Wilmington’s Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to turn over management of that strategically located facility to a billionaire Iraqi family named Jafar. One of its most prominent members is Dr. Jafar Dhai Jafar. Fifteen years ago, he was considered such a threat that U.S. troops liberating Iraq were directed to capture or kill him. The reason why? Jafar Jafar was Saddam Hussein’s nuclear bomb-maker. The inad...
Jim Jordan for Speaker
April 12, 2018 11:38 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement yesterday that he will not seek reelection offers congressional Republicans an opportunity to pull out of the political death-spiral that imperils their majority and invites the impeachment of President Trump. The question is: Will the House GOP seize the opportunity to excite and engage voters indispensable to such outcomes? Or will it alienate them further, ensuring that the base stays home – ...
A Strategic Response in Syria
April 11, 2018 11:34 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump wants to punish Bashar Assad’s regime for its alleged role in the latest, murderous chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians. The temptation is to lash out with more tactical retaliation against military targets implicated in such operations. If successful, that would convey resolve and impose costs. The trouble is that, like the response itself, the signals thus sent – let alone the effects – are likely to be ve...
Zuckerberg Also Selectively Imperils Free Speech
April 10, 2018 11:28 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Last night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a powerful warning about how some Americans are steadily losing the freedom of speech. Specifically, she described what amounts to the censoring of conservatives by giant Internet companies that long ago lost any claim to being neutral purveyors of information. Ms. Ingraham’s show aired on the eve of a double-feature appearance by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill, starting ...
Bring on the Debate about Sharia-supremacism
April 09, 2018 11:33 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. With John Bolton’s installation today as the President’s new National Security Advisor, Donald Trump has taken a huge stride toward putting in place a team to help him protect our country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Arguably, the most insidious of such enemies – whom he explicitly promised to defeat back on August 15, 2016 – are adherents to the toxic Islamic ideology they call Sharia. Ever since, Mr. Trump, has been...
Pray Trump Succeeds in Deterring China
April 06, 2018 11:50 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump is doubling down on his campaign to keep Communist China from massively ripping off U.S. intellectual property. With good reason. This may be our last chance to prevent hostile Chinese behavior from evolving into a full-blown conflict between the two countries. Two decades of such “unrestricted” – and unreciprocated – warfare against us has left China approaching the point where it can engage in highly competitive innova...
Keep the Port of Wilmington Out of Enemy Hands
April 05, 2018 11:51 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. How much would it be worth to Saddam Hussein’s nuclear bomb-maker to be able to control a major U.S. port through which he could secretly bring lethal weapons – or just about anything else – into this country? It turns out the answer is $589 million. That’s how much a company co-owned by Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s family and a sheikh from the United Arab Emirates has agreed to pay to build and operate for the next fifty years a new shippi...
Trump Will Secure the Border - One Way or Another
April 04, 2018 11:37 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump just showed us who’s boss. While the Swamp can impede the funding and construction required to build “the Wall,” it is within the power of the Commander-in-Chief to deploy troops to secure our southern border. To be sure, it’s far preferable to achieve this objective with effective, permanent barriers to illegal aliens, drug- and human-traffickers, terrorists and their enabling “coyotes.” But, in the absence of the re...
Wouldn’t You Like to Have a Wall Now?
April 03, 2018 11:37 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Borders are important symbols of national sovereignty. They are also essential to national security. Look at Europe, where millions of migrants have taken advantage of a lack of such frontiers to inundate, and fundamentally transform, country after country. Then there’s Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. The terrorist group that has run Gaza into the ground is now putting thousands of civilians in harm’s way for the purpose of st...
Enough studying grid vulnerability. Fix it.
April 02, 2018 11:42 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Suddenly, there’s a lot of buzz about America’s Achilles’ Heel – the vulnerability of our electric grid to attack or even naturally occurring solar storms that could take down our country. In recent days, the Congressional Research Service, National Academy of Sciences and North American Electric Reliability Corporation, better known as NERC, have issued warnings. Such insights are not exactly new. There have been at least eleven pre...
The Larger FBI Problem Exposed by the Mateen Fiasco
March 30, 2018 11:30 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In June 2016, Omar Mateen murdered 49 people in an Orlando gay bar. It seems that the FBI was investigating him for terrorist proclivities fully ten years before. At that time, though, Mateen’s father induced the agent conducting the inquiry to conclude his son was not a threat. We just learned that the elder Mateen was a confidential informant for the FBI and that the agent in question was the senior Mateen’s handler. The obvious ...
We Can Defeat Hypersonic Missile Threats
March 29, 2018 11:26 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For years, we have been told that the United States is the world’s only superpower. Evidently, the dictators of Russia and China didn’t get the memo. Increasingly, these hostile nations are fielding nuclear arsenals that grievously threaten our country and its people. Of particular concern is the progress the Russians and Chinese have made in hypersonic and maneuvering weapons designed to defeat our fairly rudimentary anti-missile sys...
The Trump Agenda - and Team - for Countering Sharia-supremacism
March 28, 2018 11:40 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. On August 15, 2016, Donald Trump laid out the most accurate assessment of the threat posed by what he called “radical Islamic terrorism” of anyone in public life. He also presented a robust plan for contending with the danger posed by those who adhere to the totalitarian ideology they call Sharia. He is president of the United States today in no small measure due to his clarity on these subjects – and the yearning of Americans for the ...
Who Else is Spying Here for Putin?
March 27, 2018 11:36 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, the United States joined the United Kingdom and twenty other allied nations in expelling purported “Russian diplomats.” This action has been been portrayed as a demonstration of solidarity with Britain after Vladimir Putin’s regime used military nerve agent to try to kill a turncoat and his daughter there. Actually, it’s a long-overdue counter-intelligence measure, made necessary by Russia’s espionage operations in this cou...
Trump Resets His Transgender Policy and His Presidency
March 26, 2018 11:34 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump provided fresh evidence of his assertive Presidency 2.0 with a memorandum Friday that effectively affirmed an earlier, contested directive by precluding those with “gender dysphoria” from serving in the U.S. military. If that term is unfamiliar, it’s because lately we have been insistently told that self-described “transgender” individuals do not have such a clinical condition – never mind that it is utterly incompatible wi...
Trump Presidency 2.0
March 23, 2018 11:32 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Let’s call it Trump Presidency 2.0. The replacement of H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor with Amb. John Bolton is not merely a changing of the guard. It is a sea-change, one that holds promise of allowing Mr. Trump to accomplish his national security and foreign policy objectives, rather than endlessly contend with them being sabotaged by his own insubordinate subordinates. This transformation is powerfully reinforced by a si...
Carpe Diem - The Last Straw on McMaster
March 22, 2018 11:42 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump has once again been sabotaged by leaks from inside his administration. This time, someone with access to materials prepared for the recent presidential phone call with Vladimir Putin gave them to the Washington Post, highlighting the staff’s admonition not to congratulate the Russian dictator on his recent “reelection,” and the fact that Mr. Trump did it anyway. The intended target of this disclosure presumably was Preside...
Give the Power-abusing IT Giants the Ma Bell Treatment
March 21, 2018 11:35 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Have you heard the political left’s gnashing of teeth about a company called Cambridge Analytica and its unauthorized exploitation of Facebook users’ personal information for commercial purposes? My immediate reaction was: Wait, isn’t that what IT monopolies like Facebook and Google do every day? Fortunately, Michael Brendan Dougherty just explained at National Review the double standard being applied here. Cambridge Analytica’s sin ev...
The Truth About China - It’s a Threat to Freedom
March 20, 2018 11:32 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. As Chinese president Xi Jinping completes his consolidation of power domestically and pursues with increasing brazenness the domination of half the world – on a scale that makes Imperial Japan’s “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” pale by comparison, there’s an urgent need for clarity about the threat posed to freedom by Communist China. The retired Catholic Cardinal of Hong Kong Joseph Zen has just helpfully provided a reality che...
‘Civil War II’
March 19, 2018 11:31 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBThis is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. I had a chance to speak to a group in Queens, New York last night about Abraham Lincoln. It prompted me to reflect on civil war – in his time, and ours. Of course, Lincoln’s presidency was defined by the cataclysmic struggle between the Union and the southern states that wanted to secede from it. A similar – albeit, undeclared and mostly non-violent – conflict seems to be underway today. In my remarks, I cited an analysis of what migh...