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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.

Medi Tirania, Albania

GAFFNEY: Morsi’s second Muslim Brotherhood coup

During the so-called "Arab Spring," the Obama administration insisted that the United States risked being on the "wrong side of history" if it remained aligned with secular despots like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.

November 26, 2012
The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Middle East melting down into ‘Obamawar’

While debating Mitt Romney this fall, President Obama declared that he had decided to embrace the term "Obamacare" -- a name originally coined and used by its detractors to tie the president firmly to the health care fiasco he had spawned.

November 19, 2012
Illustration Obama's Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Obama administration failing Benghazigate smell test

In Washington, when the official line seems improbable, people often say, "It doesn't pass the smell test." There's a lot that stinks at the moment about the Benghazigate affair, including now the circumstances involving the forced resignation of a man in the middle of it: President Obama's CIA Director and former four-star Army General David Petraeus.

November 12, 2012
Illustration Cutting out the Constitution by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Vote for Obama to restrict free speech

As Americans go to the polls, many factors may influence how they vote for president. Among those -- if not pre-eminent among them -- should be the kind of country they want to bequeath to their children.

November 5, 2012
Illustration Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Obama’s perfect storm

Barack Obama faces not one but two perfect storms. He actually may be grateful for the meteorological one if it predictably helps obscure the political one at least for the next week.

October 29, 2012
Illustration: Obama's war by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Beating Obama on foreign policy

Tuesday's rematch between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is likely to be the first of two in which the incumbent's record as commander in chief will be a matter of direct debate.

October 15, 2012
Illustration Me the People by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: The post-constitutional president

Team Obama insists that next month's presidential election is "a choice, not a referendum." It sure seems to be the latter with respect to the two candidates' very different views on the Constitution.

October 8, 2012
Illustration Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Obama’s deceit after people died

Suddenly, the president's new clothes seem embarrassingly transparent. The contention relentlessly promoted by Team Obama, to the effect that the commander in chief's performance with respect to foreign policy and national security was simply unassailable, is being seen for what it is: an utter fraud.

October 1, 2012
Illustration: Islam by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: White House caving to Islamic blasphemy agenda

For the past two weeks, the American people have been encouraged by Team Obama -- official representatives of the administration, its champions in the press and other partisans -- to believe a number of national security calumnies that can be described only as surrealistically epic and dangerous deceptions.

September 24, 2012
Illustration Islamist Chair by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Islamists’ tipping point

History is replete with examples of strategic miscalculations in which an overreach -- usually born of contemptuous disdain for a foe -- led to disaster for the aggressor. Think Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 or Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union 131 years later.

September 17, 2012
Illustration: Enabling Muslim Brotherhood by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: The world is not better off

Eleven years after Sept. 11, President Obama would have us believe that, at least with respect to our national security, we are better off than we were when he came to office. Specifically, he now claims that al Qaeda -- the terrorist organization that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on that terrible day -- is "on the path to defeat."

September 10, 2012
Illustration United States and Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Israel betrayed?

In October 2001, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon issued a prophetic warning: "Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a 'convenient temporary solution.'

September 4, 2012
Illustration Islam and Christian by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Hatred’s strange bedfellows

Last week's near-massacre at the Family Research Council (FRC) put into sharp relief a curious fact: The people most aggressively denouncing others for their "hatemongering" sure are engaging in a lot of it themselves, with dangerous and potentially lethal repercussions.

August 20, 2012
Illustration: Islam by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Security clearance compromise for Islam

A magician typically succeeds when the attention of the audience is diverted from his main activity onto some distraction. President Obama has raised this sort of deflection into a political art form.

August 13, 2012
Illustration: Republican direction by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Republicans’ one-legged stool?

Ronald Reagan forged a winning electoral majority on the stable foundation of what he described as a three-legged stool: fiscal discipline, traditional values and peace through strength. He understood it to be an appealing platform to the American people writ large, including, of course, economic, social and national-security conservatives and the rest of his Republican Party.

August 6, 2012
Anderson Cooper

GAFFNEY: Anderson Cooper crosses the line

Anderson Cooper closed one of five segments of his weeknight CNN show that he recently devoted to attacking principally Rep. Michele Bachmann with a genuflection toward an iconic newsman, Edward R. Murrow.

July 30, 2012
The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: America’s ‘Iron Lady’

Movie theaters across America have recently showed a film depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a woman whose visionary leadership and fortitude -- particularly in the fight against Soviet communism -- earned her the sobriquet "the Iron Lady."

July 23, 2012
Illustration: Obama and Islam

GAFFNEY: The company they keep

The truism that you know someone by the company they keep has rarely been more true than in respect to the Obama administration and its burgeoning ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. Just last weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton became the latest member of Team Obama to consort with sworn enemies of the United States when she sat down with the newly installed president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

July 16, 2012