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Right to Know

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Hillary Clinton is expected to make her final congressional appearance as Secretary of State tomorrow. She will be testifying about the attack on US forces in Benghazi, Libya last September. Legislators will likely focus on her role in the failure to secure the facility, and to tell the truth about what happened during and after the murder of our ambassador and three others.
Mrs. Clinton must also be asked about who is responsible for devising and executing the policy that gave rise to that disaster, namely the policy of engaging, legitimating, powering, funding, and arming Islamists. Does she now think we should persist in this folly despite its obvious failure and growing costs? The American people have a need to know the answers to such questions. Congress has a duty to ensure they are asked.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Morsi

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The man Barack Obama helped install as president of Egypt is an anti-Semite.  For example, in 2010, Mohamed Morsi referred to Jews as “the descendants of apes and pigs.”  He also declared that they and persist in “fanning the flames of civil strife wherever they were throughout history.”
Unfortunately, Morsi’s reprehensible invitations to genocide are not isolated incidents.  In fact, Jew-hatred and intolerance are central to the Muslim Brotherhood agenda of shariah – the virulently totalitarian doctrine Brothers like Morsi seek to impose worldwide. It is predictable that such hostility will, at some point, translate into violence against Israel.
That being the case, it is madness for the United States to be funding, to say nothing of arming, the Morsi regime in Egypt.  Such madness must not go unchallenged.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Hagel

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Obama wants Chuck Hagel as the next Defense Secretary. One reason: the former Nebraska Senator wants to cut even more from the Pentagon budget than Mr. Obama has publicly advocated to date.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are evidently so alarmed at the impact of the cuts now in prospect that they have issued a written warning to Congress. They said the United States military was reaching the “tipping point” that would produce a “hollow force.”
Civilian control of the U.S. armed forces is an important and time-honored principle in this country. If Senators give Chuck Hagel that control, though, they will assure the hollowing out of our military. History shows that will make the world more dangerous, and make the men and women charged with protecting us ever-less-capable of doing so.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Hostages

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The world has a very direct way of demonstrating that America is perceived to be so weak that it can be taken on -- even by those who are, in relative terms, infinitely weaker.  One of the most dramatic is hostage-taking.
In 1979, Iranian jihadists displayed their contempt for President Jimmy Carter and the U.S. military he had “hollowed out” by attacking our embassy in Tehran.  As the new Hollywood blockbuster Argo reminds us, our countrymen were allowed to be held hostage there for over a year, underscoring our national impotence.
Yesterday, Americans were again taken hostage – this time by al Qaeda jihadist in Algeria.  It coincided with a dramatic warning by seven top military commanders that pending budget cuts risk creating another “hollow force.”  We truly can’t afford to go there.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

Hagel's Flimflam

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Confirmation conversion syndrome is a well-known phenomenon in official Washington.  Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, however, seems to have a particularly bad case of the disease.
The former Senator is telling his colleagues that he doesn’t believe practically any of the things the record indicates he has long advocated.  Now he strongly supports Israel -- a country he previously, routinely criticized.  Now he favors sanctions he previously mostly opposed on Iran and doesn’t like terrorist groups he previously wanted to engage.
Expect more of this flimflammery in his upcoming hearing.  The question is:  Will Senators reward it by turning the Pentagon over to a man with well-established and very problematic beliefs just because he is willing to tell them now whatever they want to hear?
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.

What Al Qaeda?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Not too long ago, President Obama relentlessly campaigned on the proposition that -- thanks to his success as Commander-in-Chief -- "al Qaeda is on the path to defeat."  This claim was never true and was deliberately misleading.
It showed Team Obama's failure to understand the true nature of the threat we face from those Muslims who seek through jihad to impose globally their repressive shariah doctrine.  That group has always included Islamists other than al Qaeda, and their numbers and power have only increased on President Obama's watch.
Now Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells us the U.S. has actually been worried for a long time about al Qaeda taking over northern Mali.  If so, it sure was a cynical and well-kept secret from the American people prior to the 2012 election.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.