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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:32:00 GMT Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:32:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In the run-up to the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearing this Thursday on Chuck Hagel's fitness to become the next Secretary of Defense, its members have been treated to the spectacle of the nominee spinning at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2013/01/30/chuck-hagels-contempt-for-the-senate-n1501444 211b85b1-dc57-4926-a917-043a60d167cd Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:32:00 GMT This week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be making her swan song appearance on Capitol Hill, providing at last to Senate and House panels her testimony about the Benghazigate scandal. Under the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2013/01/25/hillary-clintons-legacy-n1498000 e0de31d5-f1f4-4915-99f4-74d251f4be04 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:16:00 GMT Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly declared that "a world without America is not only desirable, it is achievable." While that sentiment won't be embraced in President Obama's inaugural address... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2013/01/15/a-world-without-america-n1489142 cda77244-6b82-4c82-8ee0-1cf79a487817 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT Let's call it Al Goreera. That seems a fitting title for the new network that former Vice President Al Gore is launching with the jihadists' favorite television outlet: Al Jazeera. The effect will be to create vast ne http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2013/01/10/al-gore-profits-from-the-stealth-jihad-n1486367 63b433f4-a593-427a-ae64-efca4be3c40b Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:20:00 GMT Did you have a Merry Christmas? If so, chances are you are not a Christian in the Middle East or many other parts of the world. Under the headline "Christianity 'close to extinction' in Middle East," London's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2013/01/02/no-christmas-future-for-the-middle-east-n1477735 b2c2ab06-5e63-45f7-9599-37c9cffb498b Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:04:00 GMT The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama dodged a politically perilous "bullet" when he declined to nominate Susan Rice as the next Secretary of State. Had he done so, the President would have provided his critics... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/12/18/chuck-hagel-as-a-teachable-moment-n1469542 1fab52d1-56fa-450e-a884-24c33f1ca79b Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:05:00 GMT It is a commonplace, but one that most of us ignore: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That applies in spades to a proposal under active consideration by the school board in Virginia's Loudoun... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/12/13/a-turkish-trojan-horse-for-loudoun-n1465972 08687169-8622-4adc-9518-fac652a1dc08 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:38:00 GMT In an impromptu conversation with Joe the Plumber during the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama famously and unintentionally acknowledged his support for redistributing the nation's wealth. And he has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/12/06/obamas_global_makeover 80fe016d-f70d-48d6-b7ea-a0e757d804c8 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:54:00 GMT 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. Recent... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/11/28/the_wrong_side_of_history c2e15559-24ef-4a2c-9bae-3cb57dcc8aab Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:19:00 GMT While debating Mitt Romney this fall, Barack Obama declared that he had decided to embrace the term "Obamacare" - a name originally coined and to that point only used by its detractors to tie the president firmly to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/11/20/obamawar ce38b2b4-67d6-4355-a314-66e50dd2afbe Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:51:00 GMT Washington, when the official line seems improbable, people often say, "It doesn't pass the smell test." Well, there's a lot that stinks at the moment about the Benghazigate affair, including now the circumstances... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/11/14/petraeus_benghazi_and_passing_the_smell_test 8424f74f-e73c-4619-8b16-1faf8e56dfbf Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:00:00 GMT Barack Obama faces not one but two perfect storms. He may actually be grateful for the meteorological one if it predictably helps obscure the political one at least for the next week. Hurricane Sandy is, of course, a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/11/01/obamas_perfect_storm 470f73ea-74f1-484f-b753-94712dc7cf66 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:40:00 GMT President Obama's once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call "bumps in the road" in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/10/25/the_real_reason_behind_benghazigate 4d4cd9c4-6dae-4daf-9aae-3a439a8ce941 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:57:00 GMT Tuesday's rematch of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is likely to be their first of two in which the incumbent's record as Commander-in-Chief is going to be a matter of direct debate. If last week's set-to between their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/10/16/winning_issue 04c7c026-7fec-44ab-af81-9852e7919011 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:22:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/10/04/obama_lied_after_people_died e0b45b34-e369-429d-97d6-0e67aea792f0 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:48:00 GMT For the last two weeks, the American people have been encouraged by Team Obama - both official spokesmen for the administration, its champions in the press and other partisans - to believe a number of national security... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/09/25/team_obamas_mendacity ea968d84-59a0-4863-bdd3-b2a11aaeaecf Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:41:00 GMT History is replete with examples of strategic miscalculations in which an over-reach - usually born of contemptuous disdain for a foe - led to disaster for the aggressor. Think Napoleon's invasion of Russia in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/09/20/2012_tipping_point 759602e0-bd4d-46b7-b9bc-3c4ad376fc41 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:41:00 GMT Eleven years after 9/11, 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/09/11/the_worlds_not_better_off e5dbdb63-abd0-4cb7-9776-0aa551369e23 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:51:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/09/06/israel_betrayed d4786bbc-b32e-4b31-8a6d-a57eab1c22a5 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:22:00 GMT Suddenly, a murderous threat has intensified in Afghanistan: American servicemen are being killed there at an accelerating rate by Afghans who ostensibly are their allies. These attacks have been dubbed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/08/30/making_the_us_military_submit_to_shariah d5631d1f-0ff6-438f-87c8-4afddde3957b Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:50:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/08/21/hatreds_strange_bedfellows b3cbad50-d2a7-4f7b-a128-94222085aa2b Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:53:00 GMT 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. Take, for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/08/14/the_grand_deflection d75ba311-1123-45ba-a73a-c368993053ee Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/08/07/the_gops_onelegged_stool 598d16f3-b2b5-4b78-a6c1-4a77a1aadb9e Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT Anderson Cooper closed one of five segments of his weeknightly CNN show that he recently devoted to attacking principally Rep. Michele Bachmann with a genuflection towards an iconic newsman, Edward R. Murrow. He... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/07/31/anderson_cooper_crosses_the_line 04e6efd0-8eed-4252-ad32-0a9c6c54aad7 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT Movie theaters across America have recently called to mind former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a woman whose visionary leadership and fortitude - particularly in the fight against Soviet Communism - earned... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/07/24/americas_iron_lady daadfb4c-a4bd-4caa-97e9-27fa2cc303c1 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT In Lone Survivor, a chilling, firsthand account of the loss of eleven members of the Navy's elite Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) Team and eight Army aviators, Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell describes the fateful decision that led... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/07/17/fundamentally_transforming_the_military c79a3bad-4560-4fc6-8792-347114e35a29 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT In Lone Survivor, a chilling, firsthand account of the loss of eleven members of the Navy's elite Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) Team and eight Army aviators, Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell describes the fateful decision that led... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/07/10/fundamentally_transforming_the_military b74ab8cb-6f3a-41a1-9345-ad03e6cd8854 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT In the past, American presidential campaigns have featured bitter recriminations over foreign policy reverses. Harry Truman was charged with having "lost China" following the take-over of the Chinese mainland by Mao... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/07/03/who_lost_egypt a1bba021-9ee3-4c7c-a801-193f06d536bc Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:28:00 GMT Egypt's newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, says he will be a "leader for all Egyptians." That sounds a lot like the sorts of lies his fellow Muslim Brothers have been telling for months, only to renege on them... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/06/26/the_brotherhoods_bait_and_switch fc264b08-41f8-4bf4-b473-736536b727ea Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:30:00 GMT The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has caused many Americans to reflect on that group's stated ambition to impose worldwide the totalitarian,supremacist Islamic doctrine known... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/06/18/conservatives_for_shariah aa71734d-d3c6-42f1-b1d0-4360c69006fc Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:53:00 GMT Suddenly, congressional leaders of both parties are demanding investigations into serial disclosures of national security secrets on President Obama's watch. The truth of the matter is that we already know what we need... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/06/11/hold_obama_accountable 8126ddb6-6abf-455a-9bc7-18c7aa58142a Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:08:00 GMT In recent days, top U.S. cabinet officers have traveled around the world on high-profile diplomatic missions. Ironically, in the process of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the Arctic Circle and Secretary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/06/05/common_sense_on_lost 4259933a-76dc-452f-a298-64619b9bcfd8 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT Last week, President Obama told the latest graduates of the Air Force Academy that, despite massive cuts in defense spending being made by his administration, "We will maintain our military superiority in all areas -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/05/29/it_aint_necessarily_so 7e75ba83-4a1f-4634-bffd-eafa3c088e4e Tue, 29 May 2012 17:58:00 GMT This week, the Obama administration will roll out its big guns in support of President Obama's latest assault on American sovereignty and security interests: The UN Law of the Sea Treaty (better known as LOST). Of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/05/21/bad_timing_for_lost c4a91b51-8736-4625-8c56-36648c640cb0 Mon, 21 May 2012 20:08:00 GMT Here we go again: The usual suspects - the environmentalists, the one-worlder transnationalists, the Obama administration (to the extent that is not redundant) and assorted short-sighted special interests including,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/05/14/false_flag_operation_on_lost f458344e-e9fd-4bb3-a4e6-1445af4e058c Mon, 14 May 2012 20:01:00 GMT In the space of two weeks, three European governments have fallen, sending seismic shock-waves across the continent and calling into question the experiment that has consumed its elites for decades: the construction of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/05/13/farewell_to_europe 5923c3ea-c995-4b08-9078-299e4121cb00 Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT So, it turns out, Team Obama suddenly wants the 2012 presidential campaign to be about foreign policy, rather than the economy. Such a pivot might not be surprising given that, by President Obama's own test, he has not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/05/01/wanted_a_competent_commanderinchief 26edd271-6a2b-41ad-aa05-ab02e96ebe0e Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Have you ever asked yourself why, despite more than ten years of efforts -involving, among other things, the loss of thousands of lives in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-over a trillion dollars spent, countless... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/04/23/losing_the_jihadists_war_on_america 06f9bb92-4969-488b-a114-6b6648e8cd39 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:52:00 GMT The multinational negotiations held over the weekend in Turkey with the ostensible purpose of halting Iran's nuclear weapons program will be followed by - drum roll - yet another round of talks in late May. Not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/04/17/obamas_allhatnocattle_diplomacy 56536f2e-e930-43b1-b71a-4620ff97538d Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:41:00 GMT A troubling pattern of putting U.S. and allied security interests second to the Obama administration’s political priorities is now well-established. If allowed to continue, it will not only make the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/04/09/political_compromise_of_our_security 6acbdb11-bc21-42cb-8b0b-854be6d0f247 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:39:00 GMT One of the most important challenges we face as a free people is understanding the true nature of - and threat posed by - a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call shariah. 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Ex-Im... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/03/19/fund_but_verify_the_importexport_bank 80faca4b-1541-4759-b3a5-761ad94033f1 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:24:00 GMT When Barack Obama became President of the United States, he swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend our Constitution." Unfortunately, evidence has accumulated ever since that he feels no obligation to honor his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/03/13/channeling_scoop_jackson 3c881677-cc0e-4307-a564-a202b90190b3 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT The untimely death of my friend Andrew Breitbart last week got me thinking about what an extraordinary contribution he had made to our country and to the cause of freedom in his forty-three years. Reflecting on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/03/08/andrew_breitbart_our_samuel_adams 20e5307b-0da4-40b0-bb32-c9391cdadf82 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:50:00 GMT As we witness surging Muslim violence against non-Muslims in Afghanistan, Egypt and even here, the response seems increasingly that the victims must apologize to the perpetrators. In particular, the United States... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/02/28/the_struggle_for_civil_rights_2012 e1cebf3b-ca9e-47ba-874e-ff386ffeaa0d Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:09:00 GMT Last week, President Obama feted Communist China's Xi Jinping, the man who hopes to lead his country as it emerges as the world's next superpower. Mr. Xi must have been delighted to see press reports that his host is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/02/25/blind_ideology 4ba5b73f-f403-4999-9616-10cbc0d28701 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Over the weekend, a drama with potentially horrific consequences for freedom-loving Americans played out half-a-world away. A Saudi newspaper columnist named Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia, reportedly on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/02/15/shariahs_police 787753dc-e8ac-46d9-bae4-b04fb5b6f8b9 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:29:00 GMT On February 5th, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show. In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as Madonna's performance at half time. In particular, in his interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Mr. Obama... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/02/07/on_obamas_watch 1bc942a6-42b3-4d21-a5b6-78b302bf0fe6 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:42:00 GMT According to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), there is a grave threat to America that must be suppressed at all costs. The threat is that Lieutenant General William "Jerry" Boykin might be allowed to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2012/02/01/free_speech__for_some 7650596c-0172-429f-bbf2-fac4b9070ef9 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:34:00 GMT