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Marc Thiessen On 'Isolationism' In The GOP

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Marc Thiessen, Columnist for the Washington Post, talks about rumblings from within the GOP regarding the recent so-called Isolationist tendencies. Listen here: [audio: http://www.securefreedomradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/06242011_Hour3_Seg2_Thiessen_9min59.mp3]

Congressman Duncan Hunter: What It Takes To Win In Afghanistan

What does it take to win in Afghanistan? Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Congressman Duncan Hunter, a combat veteran of Afghanistan himself, weighs in on what he thinks a realistic approach to the Long War should look like.

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry: China Underwrites Crisis in Sudan

“As I understand it…. The Chinese have actually had their own armed personnel on the ground for some time in areas where these pipelines and oil drilling facilities have been, because they are the largest customer for this oil.” –

What Is The ATF doing?

Operation Fast and Furious was supposed to catch gun smugglers trying to ship weapons into Mexico, guess someone forgot to tell the agents they weren’t suppose to actually let the weapons get into Mexico. A vast amount of US weapons

Congressman Shimkus On Energy Security

What is actually being done about U.S. energy security? Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Illinois Congressman John Shimkus, chairman of the Environment and Economy Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives lays out

Jeff Smith: Pakistan's Double Game

How can one possibly know who our friends are and who our enemies are within the Pakistani military and intelligence apparati respectively? By having a conversation the American Foreign Policy Council’s Kramer Strategy Fellow, Jeff Smith of course! Understand the

Trevor Loudon on the Panetta Hearings

Should Leon Pannetta’s associations with Communists in the eighties give pause to the Senate Armed Services Committee? Trevor Loudon did the footwork on tracking Panetta’s associations that in some cases led to members of the Silvermaster Spy Ring and Chinese

Peru: Venezuela's Little Brother

Does Latin America really need another Hugo Chavez? Does Peru need a Hugo Chavez? The answer is most definitely NO! Peru’s economy has been on the upswing in recent years, but the day after Ollanta Humala won the presidency the

Holland Taylor: The Illusion Of An Islamic State

“We found that what’s underway here is that you have a virulent ideology which is very heavily financed from both international and domestic sources and executed and spread in an extremely systematic manor with very little organized oposition by Muslims

Lt. General William Boykin: The Threats We Face

It is the tradition of Secure Freedom Radio to spend the full hour with a service man or woman who represents the very best of all we honor on this sacred day of Memorial Day. Today, Lt. General (Ret.) William

James Woolsey: A Bush-Obama Policy on Democracy

“It looks like we now have a Bush-Obama policy on democracy. I think President Obama would wince a bit being called a Neo-con but it sounds awfully close!” What is the former CIA director’s take on U.S. policy toward the

Caroline Glick: Getting the Border Issue Straight

“Those were the armistice lines at the end of the war. They weren’t borders. They weren’t internationally recognized boundaries under any stretch of the imagination.” There has been a lot of political speak in the last two weeks concerning Israel’s

Michael O'Hanlon on The Strength of America's Military

How does $400 billion in defense cuts over 10 years calculate into the broader context of America’s ability to defender herself with both economic and military power? Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution

John Bradshaw: Sudan Remains Volatile

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, John Bradshaw, Executive Director of The Enough Project (of the Center for American Progress) reports on the bad faith of the Khartoum Regime from airstrikes in Darfur to bombing runs Abyei. The Enough

Roger Noriega: Iran in Venezuela

Is Iran building a missile base in Venezuela? Ambassador Roger Noriega joined Frank Gaffney today on Secure Freedom Radio and filled in gaps around this story that German news paper, Die Welt, has confirmed. Listen here: [audio: http://www.securefreedomradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/05192011_Seg4_Noriega_10min19.mp3]

Pete Hoekstra: Enhanced Interrogation

“Enhanced interrogation techniques helped us put together the puzzle of Al Qaeda together a whole lot quicker and the more pieces we put in place, the more likely it was that we were going to find Bin Laden.” – Former

Janice Kephart: The Border Is Not Secure

“You are definitely dealing with folks who are not taking this situation seriously. We have for the first time in years, Federal Agents being killed on both sides of the border. We have Americans being brutally murdered on both sides

Inhofe: Gitmo is Still a Good Idea

According to Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, not only has Guantanamo Bay been one of the wisest purchases America has ever made, but also one of our best strategic decisions in fighting terrorism. Without Gitmo, where would America send suspected

Congressman Louis Gohmert: Calling Holder Out

Today, on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Congressman Louis Gohmert describes his interchange with AG Holder during the recent Judiciary hearing on the question of the political scuttling of the indictment terrorist finance co-conspirators. Listen to Congressman Gohmert’s interview with

Andy Bostom: America's Respectful Burial Of Osama Bin Laden?

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Andy Bostom tries to explain why America might have actually given Osama bin Laden a proper Islamic burial. According to Andy Bostom, that is exactly what took place aboard the USS Carl Vincent

John Bolton: Exactly The Wrong Thing To Do

“We need to have some pretty unpleasant conversations with those people in the very near future.” – Ambassador John Bolton comments on the those Pakistani officials who must have known of Bin Laden’s presence. The administration has narrowly defined the

Patrick Poole: Do We Understand the Threat Now?

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Patrick Poole of Pajamas Media explains what the death of Osama bin Laden really means for US security. In the wake of his death at the hands of US Navy SEALs Team Six,

Congressman Thad McCotter: Seize Freedom

“I’m not a Neo-Conservative. I’m a Reaganite!” Americans place a high value on freedom and human dignity. That is a characteristic unique to our history and carved in our founding documents. It is too rare, these days, to have leaders

Roger Noriega: China's Rise in Latin America

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Amb. Roger Noriega explains the implications behind China’s rise in Latin America along with the protests in Bolivia and U.S. treatment of its allies in the region. Also, check out Inter American Security

Ken DeGraffenreid: Leadership at the C.I.A.

“I don’t think he has arrested the C.I.A.’s slide into becoming an ossified politically correct welfare bureaucracy resembling the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .. It is not the agile outfit that it was at the beginning of the Cold War

Bill Roggio: The Afghan Prison Break

“The Afghan troops are no where near ready to be able to take on this responsibility.” – Bill Roggio Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Bill Roggio, Editor of The Longwar Journal, reports on the escape of more than

Frank Gaffney: Shutting Down Gitmo Is Not A National Security Policy

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank enumerates the political battles that lead to the defeat of President Obama’s Gitmo policy. The premise that the facility’s impact on America’s image in the world hurt our national security was central

Michael Ledeen, Jon Adler, Bill Gertz

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Michael Ledeen, author of Accomplice to Evil Iran and the War Against the West and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, lays out the path to nonviolent regime change in

Confronting Los Zetas

“What is seen just across the border from us… is what people have sometimes described as being worse than what is happening in Iraq.” -Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Today on Secure Freedom Radio: Sigifredo Gonzalez, sheriff of Zapata county in Texas,

Debra Burlingame: Standing Down in the War on Terror

“Here we have a very perverse situation where our own government knows that these people are associated with the effort to bring down America and they are not just coddling them. They are inviting them into the highest places of

Rep. Mike Coffman: Rare Metal for American Weapons

Could Congressman Mike Coffman’s RESTART bill loosen Communist China’s stranglehold on rare earth minerals? Rep. Coffman joined Frank Gaffney today on Secure Freedom Radio to talk about what America can do to counter this strategic disadvantage. PR China has restricted

Congresswoman Sue Myrick: The Muslim Brotherhood Hearings

In a rough economy when times are tough, why do people need to know about threats to the United States like the Muslim Brotherhood? “Very Frankly, this is something that will undermine our way of life if we don’t get

Michael Waller: Iran Supports Syrian Supression

“U.S. intelligence has found that the Iranian regime has provided Syria with technology and know-how to monitor and censor cell phones, text messaging, and internet traffic among the political opposition inside Syria using the equipment Iran got from Nokia Siemens

Mark Helprin: Dormant Elements of Militant Islamist Threat Doctrine

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Mark Helprin, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of Winter’s Tale, debates the fundamental nature of Sharia and the dormant violent nature of Militant Islamist ideology. He warns about the lack