Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

THREAT ASSESSMENT: Obama’s plan: First close, then surrender, Gitmo

Next week, Team Obama will begin formal negotiations with Cuba on normalizing relations between our country and the island's abidingly communist, repressive and hostile regime. The talks may prove a double-whammy for America.

January 14, 2015

‘Threat Assessment’ to feature timely news, analysis, commentary

We will be featuring throughout the day breaking news items and analysis, commentary and links to video and radio platforms that will help you better understand the challenges of our times, and what we can do to address them.

January 14, 2015

GAFFNEY: America’s vanishing deterrent

President Obama appears to be poised to embroil the United States in a new war in Syria in response to the recent, murderous use of chemical weapons there. Ill-advised as this step is, it is but a harbinger of what is to come as reckless U.S. national security policies and postures meet the hard reality of determined adversaries emboldened by our perceived weakness.

August 27, 2013

GAFFNEY: No rescue for the firebugs of the Muslim Brotherhood

Ever since President Obama came to office, his administration has cultivated relations with, legitimated, emboldened, empowered, funded and even armed the Muslim Brotherhood.

August 20, 2013

GAFFNEY: Farewell to ‘the Judge’

On Saturday, we lost a truly great American. The man Ronald Reagan rightly thought of as his top hand, William P. Clark, finally - to use his old friend and boss' oft-quoted phrase - "slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."

August 13, 2013

GAFFNEY: Willful blindness, mortal peril

Diana West's splendid new book, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character," is an expose of a practice that she persuasively argues has cost us dearly in the past and endangers our future.

August 6, 2013

GAFFNEY: Preparing to meet the electromagnetic threat

Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld noted long ago that there is a geopolitical counterpart to Aristotle's axiom that "nature abhors a vacuum." As the author of the terrific new book "Rumsfeld's Rules" quipped, "Weakness is provocative."

July 30, 2013

GAFFNEY: John Kerry’s folly at Israel’s peril

In one of Team Obama's trademark Friday afternoon specials, Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced last week that his six rounds of shuttle diplomacy had resulted in an agreement to reconvene Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

July 23, 2013

GAFFNEY: If the Senate goes ‘nuclear’

At this writing, Senate Democrats are threatening to exercise the "nuclear option" — a parliamentary maneuver that would end, once and for all, the minority's ability to block presidential nominations with 41 votes.

July 16, 2013

GAFFNEY: Banking on America

A perfect storm is brewing - one that threatens to devastate what's left of America's military and its associated industrial base. This would be a bad outcome under the best of circumstances.

July 9, 2013

GAFFNEY: A Gettysburg for Republicans

This week's anniversary of the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg is a reminder of the horrific costs of war — and of the dangers of not being prepared to wage and win such conflicts when they arise.

July 2, 2013

GAFFNEY: The Senate’s serial contempt

On Monday, 67 U.S. senators showed contempt for the American people, for the rule of law and for national security.

June 26, 2013

GAFFNEY: Doing something about space weather

A wit once observed a persistent truth: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." That has been especially the case with respect to "space weather" - a phenomenon associated with intense solar activity, known by scientists as coronal mass ejections and popularly as solar flares.

June 18, 2013

GAFFNEY: Crossing the line on metadata

The revelation that the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) has been vacuuming up so-called "metadata" from foreign and American communications has lots of us in a full-scale flail.

June 11, 2013

GAFFNEY: Amending a dangerous immigration plan

Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York confidently predicts that at least 70 members of the U.S. Senate are going to vote for the so-called comprehensive immigration-reform bill proposed by his "Gang of Eight."

June 4, 2013

GAFFNEY: Obama’s surrender

The White House billed last week's address by President Obama as a major foreign policy address. Indeed, it was.

May 29, 2013

GAFFNEY: The night that all the lights go out

In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization.

May 21, 2013

GAFFNEY: The Benghazi scandal’s female factor

Suddenly, it seems we have broken through the most effective executive branch cover-up and complicit media blackout in memory.

May 14, 2013

GAFFNEY: Moment of truth on Benghazi

The dam seems to be breaking on the nearly eight-month-long cover-up concerning the deadly jihadist attack on Americans and their facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

May 7, 2013

GAFFNEY: Whose side is Obama on?

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the investigation into its perpetrators has been marred by a series of bizarre and even alarming actions by President Obama and his administration. Unfortunately, these increasingly suggest a pattern that is at odds with our national and homeland security.

April 30, 2013