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Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

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Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (SecureFreedom.org) a columnist for The Washington Times and host of Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9 p.m. on 1260 AM.

Articles by Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Melding in: Vice President Joseph R. Biden opened the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism by saying, "We are a nation of immigrants, and our strength is that we are a melting pot." (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Obama’s legacy is more jihad

The backdrop for today’s White House “Countering Violent Extremism Summit” will be the latest outrage by the Islamic State – its mass immolation of 45 captured Kurdish soldiers.

February 18, 2015
In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz.  The parents of an American woman held by Islamic State militants say they have been notified of her death. Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of Kayla Jean Mueller, released a statement on Tuesday saying they have been told that she has died. The White House also issued a statement confirming her death.The Islamic State group said Friday that the 26-year-old Mueller from Prescott, Arizona, died in a Jordanian airstrike. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw) MANDATORY CREDIT

FRANK GAFFNEY: The ‘Defeat Jihad Summit’

Wednesday, something truly remarkable is going to happen in Washington: An international summit will clearly and honestly expose the growing danger posed by Islamic supremacism, global jihad and the ideology that animates them, shariah.

February 10, 2015
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk in together to begin their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington,  Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. The leaders were expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and arming Ukrainian fighters to wage a more effective battle against Russian-backed separatists. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FRANK GAFFNEY: What is Merkel Telling Putin?

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel last came to the White House, she was furious over revelations by an NSA turncoat that U.S. intelligence was listening to her phone calls. President Obama promised it wouldn't happen again.

February 9, 2015
National Security Adviser Susan Rice is expected Friday to announce another strategy to defeat global jihadists. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Obama has yet another ‘strategy’

Groucho Marx once said, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others." That seems to be Barack Obama's stance with respect to how to "degrade and defeat" terrorists like the murderous Islamic State.

February 5, 2015
Safi al-Kaseasbeh, right, father of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh receives condolences from tribal leaders at the Kaseasbeh tribe's gathering divan at their home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn Wednesday, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

FRANK GAFFNEY: ‘Good Muslims?’

Another day, another act of unimaginable barbarity by jihadists videotaped and disseminated to all of us. Tuesday, it was the Islamic State burning to death a captured Jordanian pilot.

February 4, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin's Strategy Chess Bear (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

FRANK GAFFNEY: It’s not enough to arm Ukraine

Some former U.S. officials this week have recognized an ugly reality: Russia is intensifying its invasion of Ukraine. Their solution is to provide Ukrainians with defensive weapons needed to increase the costs of such aggression to Vladimir Putin.

February 3, 2015
President Barack Obama, left, Vice President Joe Biden, center, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey applaud outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during a celebration in honor of Mr. Hagel's service, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, in Fort Myer, Va. Mr. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and top military brass praised Mr. Hagel at a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Fort Myer-Henderson Hall. Mr. Obama said the country is grateful for military progress on Hagel's watch.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Gen. Dempsey’s Saudiphilic essay contest

The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, has turned the position into one of chief uniformed cheerleader for and enabler of President Obama's disastrous national security policies.

January 30, 2015
The Obama Administration Iran Nuclear Policy (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Obama’s ‘Big Lie’ on Iran

Totalitarians have long employed "the Big Lie" to obscure reality and mislead their publics. They just repeat a falsehood often and authoritatively enough, and most people will eventually come to believe it's true.

January 29, 2015
New Bedford firefighter Lt. Eric Hartford tries to dig out an ambulance carrying a patient en route to St. Lukes Hospital in New Bedford, Mass., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, as the region digs itself out of the snow storm that covered the area. The nor'easter was predicted to continue to pound Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine with snow and wind through Tuesday. Total accumulation was expected to reach or exceed two feet in most of Massachusetts, potentially making it one of the top snowstorms of all time. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Wake-up call from superstorm Juno

Across the Northeastern United States, life has come to a standstill as a result of Super Storm Juno. In due course, those affected will dig out and get back to everyday activities.

January 27, 2015
In this March 28, 2014 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Saudi King Abdullah about a coalition to tackle the extremist Islamic State group, at Rawdat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia. On early Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, Saudi state TV reported King Abdullah died at the age of 90. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Saudi Arabian tectonic shift

The death of Wahhabi Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is a tectonic shift that comes at a moment when the Middle East was already being rocked by serious tremors.

January 23, 2015
US President Barack Obama shakes hands with US Secreatry of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) as Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew (R) watches after Obama delivered the State of The Union address on January 20, 2015, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/POOL/MANDEL NGAN

FRANK GAFFNEY: You lie about Iran’s nukes

Five years ago, Rep. Joe Wilson challenged falsehoods President Obama was spewing before a Joint Session of Congress by shouting “You lie.” That didn’t happen in the House chamber during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, but presidential mendacity was much in evidence.

January 21, 2015
Fear and Rage: The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West has been staging demonstrations against immigration from countries with large Muslim populations. Its numbers are growing, and its protests are spreading. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Stop the willful blindness

Violent demonstrations erupted over the weekend in several Muslim countries. Jihadists demanded the punishment of what is left of the staff of Charlie Hebdo for publishing yet another cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

January 19, 2015