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Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

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.

President Barack Obama looks down at his notes during a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller at the Jamaica House, Thursday, April 9, 2015, in Kingston, Jamaica. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FRANK GAFFNEY: No blank check for Obama on trade

Next week, an institution once revered as "the world's greatest deliberative body" will be asked to foreclose its ability to have meaningful deliberations about what will, predictably, be a deeply flawed international trade treaty. Published April 9, 2015

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Earnest answered questions about Iran and the various conflicts in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FRANK GAFFNEY: The lethal Iran deal Obama is piloting

The nightmarish story of a pilot locked alone in a cockpit and deliberately killing himself and his passengers by crashing his plane has just been seared into our consciousness. Published March 31, 2015

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged at Tuesday's hearing that 282 people have had to be kicked out of the amnesty program because of criminal convictions or gang ties that were later discovered. That was out of a population of more than 600,000 who were approved. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Jeh Johnson’s malfeasance

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declared Monday that "reading the Quran" reminds him of "quintessential American values." The Muslim Brotherhood-aligned influence operation he addressed was pleased. The rest of us should be alarmed. Published March 25, 2015

Illustration on Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking at Yale by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

FRANK GAFFNEY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali for CIA director

Sunday saw two sharply differing views of the jihadist enemy we are facing. One was offered by a man who is supposed to know about such things; the other by a woman who surely does. Published March 23, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin and singer Larisa Dolina sing the national anthem at a rally marking the one year anniversary of annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, outside the Kremlin in  Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Speaking to tens of thousands of supporters just outside the Kremlin walls, President Vladimir Putin has described Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as a move to protect ethnic Russians and regain the nation's "historic roots." (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Cold War 2.0

The new Cold War with Russia has just gotten considerably colder, literally. Published March 19, 2015

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the reporters at United Nations headquarters on March 10, 2015. The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Hillary Clinton’s congenital lying

The late New York Times columnist William Safire once called Hillary Clinton "a congenital liar." Her press conference Tuesday about the Emailgate scandal illustrated how we can tell when she's lying: Her lips are moving. Published March 11, 2015

A couple comes to pay respects at the place where Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 near the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 2, 2015.  The investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was gunned down not far from the Kremlin, faced conflicting reports Monday about possible surveillance footage of his slaying. Words on a portrait of Boris Nemtsov reading 'Fight!' (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

FRANK GAFFNEY JR.: Boris Nemtsov’s death no accident, comrade

The assassination outside the Kremlin last week of Vladimir Putin's most prominent and effective critic was, as the communists used to say, "no accident, comrade." Boris Nemtsov was reportedly about to disclose proof that the Putin regime was engineering the violence in Ukraine. Published March 2, 2015

Mohammed Emwazi, the British member of the Islamic State group known as Jihadi John, appears in a beheading video released by the terrorist organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

FRANK GAFFNEY: Meet the global jihad

Mohamed Emwazi's personal story is but the latest refutation of the official meme that only certain jihadist groups and their disaffected, impoverished recruits pose a threat. Published February 27, 2015

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., speaks in Indianapolis in this Nov. 6, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

FRANK GAFFNEY: The Muslim Brotherhood’s friend in Congress

Tuesday, the Center for Security Policy released a dossier showing that Rep. Andre Carson, Democrat of Indiana, has long been personally associated with individuals and organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Published February 25, 2015

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John A. Boehner have tussled with their right flank over how best to advance a conservative agenda at the Capitol. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FRANK GAFFNEY: Don’t go wobbly on amnesty

Twenty-five years ago, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned her American counterpart, "This is no time to go wobbly, George," when it came to dealing forcefully with aggression by Saddam Hussein. The same should now be said to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Published February 24, 2015

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks about the agency's budget and cybersecurity at the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee session during the  National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Several Republican governors are urging GOP congressional leaders to stand firm next week in opposing legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security if it doesn't also overturn President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Hold the line on defunding Obama’s overreach

This week, legislators will demonstrate whether they are going to fulfill their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." Or whether they will be complicit in Barack Obama's serial violations of his. Published February 23, 2015