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Articles by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Newt Gingrich at AEI Today: Freedom Will Prevail

At the American Enterprise Institute this afternoon former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich gave a truly Churchillian address about the most serious threat facing America today: Shariah. It deserves a place in the firmament of history’s most

Newt Takes on Shariah and Ground Zero Mosque

Three cheers for Newt Gingrich! For the first time, a major national American political figure has directly and accurately taken on the wellspring of the single most dangerous threat we confront today: the comprehensive, totalitarian and barbaric program the authorities

The Ground Zero Mosque's Dubious Champions

By now, a growing number of Americans have heard about the 13-story, $100 million megamosque planned for the immediate proximity of Ground Zero, thanks in part to recent appeals by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Southern Baptists’ Richard Land and

Ground Zero Mosque Goes Radioactive

The latest assault of the stealth jihadists has suddenly gone national. And so has the push-back by freedom-loving Americans. With help from two of our country’s most prominent leaders – former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former Speaker of the

WaPo: Arkin's History of Exposing America's 'Top Secrets'

There he goes again. William Arkin has made a cottage industry – and, evidently, a living – out of revealing the Nation’s secrets. Invariably, he dresses up his treachery with a patina of virtue garbed as “good government” and “transparency.”

Arms Control: Senator Kyl Goes on the Offense

On the eve of an important hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee on President Obama’s nuclear weapons policies and programs and the New START Treaty, Senator Jon Kyl has reasserted his leadership role on such issues. The last time

Obama's Clean Energy: a Dangerous Dependence on China

The headline President Obama wants uppermost in the minds of American voters today is that the stimulus bill is translating into real jobs, after all. For this purpose, he travels to Holland, Michigan to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new

Spy Swap: From Russia, with Love

So, Team Obama has pulled another Christmas Day bomber hash-up. Recall how, in the case of Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, after a grand total of fifty minutes of interrogation by the law enforcement folks who could be scared up in Detroit

Hezbollah in Mexico: Two Inconvenient Men

According to news reports from around the world, two top jihadists are now in custody. Such news should be the cause for celebration by the United States and the rest of the Free World. The Obama administration, however, is likely

The Other Influence Operation

The revelation that eleven individuals allegedly were insinuated under deep and illegal cover into various communities around America by Russian intelligence for the purpose of influencing U.S. policy has been met here as much by puzzlement as outrage. For most

A New Declaration of Independence

How fitting that BigPeace.com is rolling out on the 234th anniversary of the first Declaration of Independence! For, with the launch of this newest of the marvelous Breitbart web portals, the national security community can finally break the stranglehold the

Supreme Court On 'Moderate' Terrorists: Fuggedaboutit

Bad news today for President Obama, his Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Advisor, John Brennan, and other proponents of the idea that the United States can safely reach out to “moderate” elements within terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban.

Kagan: Shill for Shariah?

Newt Gingrich is among those who have noted a serious chink in the protective armor the Obama administration and Elena Kagan’s other defenders have tried to throw up around her Supreme Court nomination. The vulnerability has taken on increased importance

It Can't Be True: More on that Missile Defense Agency logo

In a post here Wednesday, under the headline “Can This Possibly Be True?,” I called attention to a “new” logo being used by the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the grounds that it bore a disconcerting resemblance to an

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Subpoenaed in AIG Fraud Case

Here’s the latest in the question of the New York Fed, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the AIG bailout, as we’ve covered here at Big Government before (here and here). Last year, Iraq war vet Kevin Murray brought a lawsuit

Geithner and Bernanke: Laundering Money Through an Illegal Trust?

This afternoon on Secure Freedom Radio we announced a breaking news story concerning the Administration’s ongoing cover-up of AIG financial wrong-doing. In an interview with David Yerushalmi, senior litigator on the Murray v. Geithner et al lawsuit, we expose possible

The IRS and CAIR

On November 17, 2009, a prominent Senator and five leading Members of Congress sent a letter to the IRS asking for an investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) concerning their possible violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act which

Has CAIR Violated the Iranian Assets Control Regulations?

On November 12 2009, the federal government moved to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by the Alavi Foundation, a group allegedly under the direct control of the Iranian government. The following day, the Washington Times

The Incredible Shrinking CAIR

Last week, right after the Fort Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan that killed thirteen people and wounded thirty, the Council on American Islamic Relations showed up on PBS and MSNBC with their three standard talking points, here paraphrased:

Why You Should Care About CAIR….

Over the next month, we will be exposing new evidence about the activities of the Council on American Islamic Relations, known as CAIR. The evidence – and ensuing requests for formal investigations of CAIR – will be submitted to members

U.S. Congress and Iran – Commingling at CAIR?

[PREVIOUSLY: On Friday, we presented the undercover video from the 2008 CAIR Annual banquet showing that the “Interests Section of Iran” – the defacto embassy of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism as named by the U.S. State Department –

Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Thanks Iran For Its Support

This Saturday, the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold its 15th Annual fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia. Last year, our investigative teams went undercover to the November 23, 2008 CAIR 14th Annual Banquet fundraiser, and secretly videotaped the proceedings. They