Frank Gaffney is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. The Center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational corporation established in 1988. Under Mr. Gaffney's leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters. Mr. Gaffney also contributes actively to these debates in his capacity as a columnist for the Washington Times and as a monthly contributor to Defense News and Investor's Business Daily. He is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a columnist for American Spectator Online, WorldNetDaily.com and JewishWorldReview.com. He is a featured weekly contributor to Hugh Hewitt's nationally syndicated radio program and appears frequently on national and international television and radio programs. In addition, his op-ed articles have appeared, among other places, in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New Republic,The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsday. In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO's senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings. From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle. From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Senator John Tower (R-Texas). In the latter 1970's, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington area. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:22:25 GMT Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:22:25 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Last March, during a visit to Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was made to look foolish when she presented her host, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with a box festooned with a button marked "Reset" in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/09/18/reset_translates_as_capitulation 53a06e50-5709-4a5d-b398-0ad98e84a9a8 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:22:25 GMT Give Janet Napolitano her due. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has taken to heart Barack Obama's campaign pledges of "change" and "hope." Unfortunately, the changes she has effected seem generally... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/05/11/department_of_insecurity 5a4ce5a0-5c94-4866-bb4c-d0c5ca670e41 Mon, 11 May 2009 20:41:30 GMT At one point or another, everybody tries to justify their participation in behavior that defies common sense and good judgment by claiming that someone else, usually older and putatively smarter, told them to do it. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/05/04/the_denuclearizers_bridge-jump 50791f24-61eb-453f-a61e-03e46d57dfb0 Mon, 04 May 2009 18:37:50 GMT Perhaps the most famous line the history of cartoons was one Walt Kelly gave his much-beloved character, Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." Increasingly, it appears Barack Obama feels the same way about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/04/20/the_enemy_is_us fb59868c-f39e-4aed-a606-3e5425f66eac Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:13:56 GMT When it comes to security policy, it seems everyone wants to be a "realist" these days. If that term has any meaning at all, though, Barack Obama's nuclear weapons and missile defense policies certainly would not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/04/13/obamas_unreal_nuclear_agenda c8493032-6760-4a9b-886e-481a183f7f2e Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:42:42 GMT What is wrong with this picture? We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/03/30/lawfare_and_obamas_transnationalist 094aead7-2cc2-46d0-b186-c64e994e31ee Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:23:24 GMT President Obama's stewardship of the national security portfolio to date amounts to a wrecking operation, a set of policies he must understand will not only weaken the United States but embolden our foes. After all, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/03/23/wrecking_operation d9cc82d7-616a-4833-a2d2-2982add83ad7 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:34:19 GMT LONDON - The British are understandably mystified. Long accustomed to a "special relationship" with the United States, they are trying to figure out why the latter's likeable new president would be going to such... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2009/03/09/farewell_to_britain 9759aa65-5d05-46d1-8e12-b4124e2acb93 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:28:24 GMT Senator Barack Obama became President-elect on the uplifting, if inexact, slogan, "Yes, we can." This week, there is growing evidence that people who have in mind doing away with the presidency of the United http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/11/10/yes,_they_can c09117f0-2747-4b2f-b6b1-4e7071b3c925 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:35:38 GMT News item: On Sunday, Arab News reported, "The U.S. government is currently studying the salient features of Islamic banking to ascertain how far it could be useful in fighting the ongoing world economic http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/10/27/sell_off_or_sell_out e797f193-addc-4db0-a769-91e355d11245 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:06:38 GMT Suddenly, the presidential campaigns are addressing an issue that should have been at the forefront of this year's election long ago. Call it "characters count." We know people - especially public figures - http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/10/06/characters_count d9db5dc1-cfa0-425f-b203-c51e1b17a952 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:46:45 GMT It's election season, so it is appropriate that an important vote will be cast this weekend. No, I am not talking about early balloting in Ohio or Oregon for the November presidential race. Rather, this vote is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/10/03/vote_early_and_often_-_at_the_box_office b60700ae-e4f0-46eb-9807-ec6e5aad9f22 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:10 GMT Q. What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama have in common? A. The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic candidate for president of the United States of America have http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/09/22/a_world_without_america 7271ff9e-79fa-4f92-88f2-40b7a7cace39 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:21 GMT The question on Wall Street in the wake of the latest meltdowns in the U.S. financial sector is "Who's next?" The more important issue is not which of the major banks or investment firms will follow Lehman Brothers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/09/16/into_the_fire e3c4a91f-73f3-403d-8eb5-8c23a239d0ca Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:49:24 GMT Listening to her critics, one might think that John McCain's chosen running-mate is a complete ignoramus when it comes to matters of national security. In fact, Sarah Palin's background in Alaska, including http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2008/09/02/palins_experience b1e3f9d9-59ad-4b21-abba-b4a1f970ab99 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:56 GMT