Secure Freedom Minute

In the “unrestricted warfare” the Chinese Communist Party has long waged against the United States, one of its most effective lines of attack has involved the weaponization of the CCP’s so-called “Old Friends” in America.
Intrepid investigative journalist Natalie Winters revealed this week that, since 2008, China’s influence operations and intelligence services have cultivated relationships with former members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and combatant commanders. They discuss sensitive and “high-risk” subjects, including Taiwan, the South China Sea and missile defense. 
A driving force behind this “Sanya Initiative” is former Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Bill Owens, who actually went to work for the CCP’s notorious telecommunications and espionage company, Huawei, and even penned an article urging that we treat China “as a friend.” 
There must be penalties for being an Old Friend of our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Senator Ted Cruz took vitally needed testimony yesterday about the threat posed by the sharia-supremacist Muslim Brotherhood around the world and, especially ominously, inside the United States. 
It established the Brotherhood has systematically built the critical infrastructure of jihad in this country over sixty years in the form of forward operating bases doing business as mosques, front groups and subversive influence operations. 
The hearing came as a man who reportedly was a leader of the Brothers’ original American front – the insidious Muslim Students association – was elected to be the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat.    
A powerful “micro-documentary” video released today by the BanSharia.com coalition raises the question: How can an adherent to Islam’s sharia – who, therefore, must pursue its rule  worldwide – truthfully swear a senator’s oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? 
This is Frank Gaffney.

There’s currently much hand-wringing that our arsenal of precision and long-range weapons has been depleted to the point where we may be unable to continue combat operations against Iran, let alone deter – and, if necessary, win – a war with Communist China.
Understandably, the Pentagon is reluctant to provide sensitive information on the topic. But leaks and congressional testimony suggest there’s truth to the speculation. 
If so, it’s the predictable result of “strategic arson” perpetrated by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. His Russian and Iranian allies’ attacks on Ukraine and Israel, respectively, came after consultations in Beijing. And they have diverted our policy-makers, consumed our warriors’ energies and materiel and overwhelmed inadequate military production lines. 
The Trump administration and Congress are scrambling to expand our defense industrial base. The question is: Will China’s next arson in “World War Xi” wait until we do so?  
This is Frank Gaffney. 

Twenty-five years ago next month, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot called al Qaeda murderously attacked New York and Washington, D.C. 
Ever since the Brotherhood has waged a stealthy “civilization jihad” contributing to the election of New York’s jihadist-Marxist mayor and our capital will have a pro-jihad Marxist one next year. 
The Brotherhood expects more wins this week. 
On 9/11, there were twelve-hundred Muslim mosques in America. Now, the Brotherhood claims 4,000. Tonight, McKinney’s city council will vote on whether to add a mega-mosque to the 300-plus “Islamic centers” now in Texas alone.
A “Red-Green axis” candidate like Zohran Mamdani is expected to win today the Democratic nomination to be Michigan’s next U.S. Senator.
And tomorrow a key Massachusetts House committee will consider a sharia-supremacist bill that would institutionalize preferential treatment for Muslims there. 
Wonder what America will look like 25 years from now?
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump announced yesterday that a devastating attack planned for Iran was called off at the request of “the allies” in the Middle East, evidently because they claim another “deal” to address the mullahs’ pursuit of nuclear weapons and control of the Strait of Hormuz is now at hand.
The question occurs, are the nations involved actually our allies and what is motivating them? Of particular concern are Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan. 
All three are nations are committed to the worldwide imposition of Islam’s political-military-legal strategy for conquest known as sharia. So are the Iranian Shiite ayatollahs. So is the terrorist group Hamas, of whom they all are supportive.
Consequently, the diplomatic “help” we are getting from such “allies” – whether in saving Iran’s regime or brokering a fraught Gaza deal – advances the sharia-supremacists’ agenda, but not our vital interests. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

So-called “frontier” artificial intelligence is going rogue. Think of it as FrankenAI. 
Anthropic and OpenAI have both reported in recent days that their AI agents have autonomously attacked other organizations, apparently without authorization from humans or prior notice. 
The trouble is this is assuredly but a small foretaste of what is being unleashed. 
Leaders in the industry like Elon Musk have been warning for some time that the pell-mell pursuit of ever more powerful AI technology risks creating instruments for the destruction of civilization. 
The notion that we must do so lest we “lose the race” with Communist China, sets up a no-win nightmare: Either we create doomsday AI or they do, with the help of American big tech. 
We better hit “pause” on both our own headlong rush to create FrankenAI and stop enabling the CCP’s.  
This is Frank Gaffney.