This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Last Thursday, government officials charged with protecting 2020 election infrastructure declared, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” That categorical statement is either a witting falsehood or indicative of gross incompetence. There’s plenty…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, Donald Trump issued what may prove to be the most important Executive Order of his presidency. He declared a national emergency arising from the investments mostly unwitting Americans are being induced to make in the Chinese Communist Party’s military-industrial complex. The CCP uses hundreds of…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Today’s the day we remember the millions of veterans who gave what Abraham Lincoln described at Gettysburg as “the last full measure of devotion.” This year especially, we need also to remember what they gave it for. Generations of American patriots have sacrificed everything, including their…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, President Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. One of several reasons was likely determinative – and must not be repeated by his interim successor. Last June, as Antifa and the Black Lives Matter organization were rioting in cities across the country, Mr. Trump entertained…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Throughout the 2020 election, the so-called “mainstream media” has been shown – together with their giant social media counterparts – to be Democratic partisans, if not actually propaganda arms of that increasingly radical leftist party. A particularly egregious example came late in the campaign when there…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. There’s another party besides the Democratic one that is pleased as punch at the prospect of Donald Trump’s defeat. That would be the Chinese Communist Party. It’s evident in the gloating taking place in the CCP’s various propaganda outlets – which rival those of the mainstream…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. While the U.S. presidential election has yet to be decided, “vote dumps” in contested states involving large numbers of ballots produced long after the polls closed – with every single one cast for Joe Biden – suggest that a winner may be fraudulently declared in the…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump has declared that he won yesterday’s hotly contested election. He has also announced that widespread fraud has been employed to deny him victory. While both points remain to be validated, we already know that, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many done so…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. My old boss, Ronald Reagan, famously declared that every generation faces an existential threat to freedom. He warned that liberty is not passed on through the blood stream. It has to be fought for, protected and turned over to the next generation to do the same.…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The integrity of tomorrow’s elections is being threatened in a number of ways. One that’s particularly ominous has, to date, been little discussed and apparently gone uncorrected. Incredibly, no fewer than 28 of our states – including 10 swing states – have their vote counts processed…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. While there are myriad uncertainties about the outcome of next week’s presidential election, one thing is certain. The winner will have as Job One contending with the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party to our national security, the U.S. economy and, in all likelihood, our…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger, who is arguably the U.S. government’s most knowledgeable expert on the Chinese Communist Party, recently spoke in Mandarin to the people of China and others threatened by what he calls the technologically-enhanced totalitarianism of Xi Jinping’s regime. Mr. Pottinger described…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For those of us who love America, yesterday was a joyous affirmation of our country and its Constitution. A woman who cherishes both – and exemplifies the best they have to offer our people and the world – was confirmed to be the newest Associate Justice…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Everyone is getting into the act of trying to influence next week’s elections. Iran and Russia have used cyber means to interfere. Their activities, however, pale by comparison with the multifaceted and aggressive efforts of Communist China. Democratic partisans are using a variety of techniques to…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In one of the few times last night when what was supposed to be the foreign policy presidential debate actually addressed what the candidates would do about challenges overseas, former Vice President Joe Biden laid out how he would handle Communist China. Mr. Biden repeatedly declared…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Our democracy is under cyberattack. The Director of National Intelligence revealed yesterday that Iranian operatives have sent threatening emails aimed at influencing voters’ choice for president. DNI John Ratcliffe offered reassurances that our government is “on top of this.” Hopefully, that’s the case. Confidence would be…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For patriotic national security professionals, what has happened lately to some of our most important frontline agencies has been traumatic and demoralizing. For most other Americans, it has been bewildering and probably not a little frightening. Specifically, we all have witnessed not just the politicization of…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The New York Post’s revelations last week of the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop – including national security sensitive information, as well as sordid personal details – has triggered two competing responses. For those who have actually been able to learn about these revelations, the…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. This country’s founders are relentlessly vilified these days by revolutionaries and their fellow travelers. But their genius is evident in the “checks and balances” they instituted to prevent abuses of power. In addition to our Constitution’s three, competing branches of government, that document’s framers believed that…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For weeks, we have faced a looming disaster – a huge fundraiser for the Chinese Communist Party being promoted by four leading U.S. investment banks: Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Thanks to the access to American investors such Wall Street powerhouses…