Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
Turkey is No Friend
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.For decades, the Eastern Mediterranean nation of Turkey has been an important strategic ally of the United States. Situated at the juncture of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, the Turks played a particularly critical role in defending the Free World during the Cold War.Ten years ago, however, an Islamist named Recep Erdogan was elected prime minister and started what his friend, President Obama, would call a “fundamental transformation” of Turkey. Erdogan has mutated his country into one in which the repressive Islamic doctrine of shariah has steadily and insidiously supplanted democratic freedom. Turkey has also ceased to be a reliable Western ally. Most recently, it helped the Iranian mullahs destroy an Israeli spy network providing vital intelligence on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. With friends like Recep Erdogan, who needs enemies?This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Monday Oct 21, 2013
Farewell to Bill Young
Monday Oct 21, 2013
Monday Oct 21, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.It is rare these days to find in Washington a legislator who conscientiously does his job, gets things done and shuns undue publicity or credit. It’s even more rare to find one deeply knowledgeable about national security and tireless in his support of the men and women in uniform who safeguard it. Still more exceptional is such a lawmaker who is actually in a position to “provide for the common defense.” Tragically, the universe of people with these qualities just shrank even further with the passing Friday of Representative Bill Young, the Chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. During fifty years of public service, in uniform and in the Florida and federal legislatures, Mr. Young distinguished himself as a truly Great American. He will be sorely missed in the dangerous days ahead.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2013
Send Al-Libi to Gitmo
Tuesday Oct 15, 2013
Tuesday Oct 15, 2013
One of the world’s most dangerous terrorists is
expected to appear in federal court today.
Anas Abu al-Libi is a top international jihadist. The holy war he has waged against us for
years included synchronized, murderous attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa
in 1999.
But, after his recent capture by Navy SEALs in
Libya, al-Libi will be given all the rights of a criminal defendant. Apparently, he will also be tried in the city
most targeted by his fellow jihadists: America’s financial capital, New York
City.
Team Obama wanted to do the same with the
jihadists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.
In the face of public outrage over the costs and difficulties of
securing New York, though, they are being held – and tried – at Guantanamo
Bay. So should be Anas Abu al-Libi.
Friday Oct 11, 2013
The Israeli Golan
Friday Oct 11, 2013
Friday Oct 11, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Last week, I was on the Golan Heights, a mountainous area where Israel and Syria meet. In Israeli hands, this bitterly contested frontier has nonetheless for the past four decades been one of the world’s most quiet. I could hear heavy weapons fire from Syria’s civil war in the distance, though. And this week, some two hundred of Bashir Assad’s armored vehicles have been shooting at rebel forces so close to the border that two Israeli soldiers were injured yesterday.The last time massed Syrian armor fired on the Golan was to launch the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Ever since it won, Israel has been told to return the Heights to Assad. Had the Israelis foolishly done so, instead of a civil war in Syria, the next regional conflict might already have started.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Thursday Oct 10, 2013
Muslim Brotherhood's BFF
Thursday Oct 10, 2013
Thursday Oct 10, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.President Obama has again lined up with the Muslim Brotherhood – an organization whose stated mission is “destroying Western civilization from within.” His administration is halting hundreds of millions of dollars and weapons transfers to the new government of Egypt for doing what we should do: crack down on and prohibit this seditious Islamist group.Team Obama is insisting the Egyptian government “restore democracy” there. As a practical matter, that amounts to a U.S. demand that the Muslim Brotherhood be restored, if not directly to power in Cairo, at least to an accelerated electoral process – which could have that effect.Let me be clear, as Mr. Obama likes to say: It is not in America’s interest to help the supremacist, jihadist Muslim Brotherhood anywhere in the world. Not in Egypt, and certainly not here.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2013
Alinskyite Shutdown
Wednesday Oct 09, 2013
Wednesday Oct 09, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Team Obama is going to great lengths to inconvenience and even punish the American people in the midst of the government shutdown. The President’s clear purpose is artificially to create conditions that will anger the public and penalize his Republican opponents.Examples include veterans denied access to memorials and cemeteries and the forced closure of even privately owned and operated sites. Then there are all the services that wouldn’t be affected if the Democrats would simply enact specific bills to fund them.Here’s one showing the Obama practice of “never wasting a crisis” in action. CNSNews reports that civilian Catholic priests used to minister to the armed forces when military chaplains aren’t available can’t even volunteer during the shutdown. Welcome to Obama’s war on the military and its practice of religious freedom. This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.