Secure Freedom Minute: Biden’s a Far Bigger Security Risk Than Trump

It’s said that, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” In the case of Joe Biden, the principle should apply as well to people who live in White Houses. President Biden says his predecessor should not have access to classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy normally extended to former Commanders-in-Chief. Mr. Biden’s stated justification…

Secure Freedom Minute: Biden’s “Back” to Obama’s Failed Policies

Yesterday, President Joe Biden used a foreign policy address to insist that “America is back.” But back to what? Based on the contents of the rest of the speech and his performance to date the answer appears to be: Back to the failed Obama-Biden administration’s policies which made it better to be America’s enemy than…

Secure Freedom Minute: Biden’s “Not Trump” Foreign Policy Puts America Last

President Joe Biden lays out today his foreign policy priorities. At the moment, they seem to be characterized by one principle: Not Trump. Donald Trump opposed the Chinese Communist Party’s “people’s war” against this country and its “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims. Will a President Biden, deeply compromised by the CCP, return to the Obama practice…

Secure Freedom Minute: The Iranian Regime Must Go If It’s to be Denied the Bomb

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Of President Biden’s many problematic initiatives aimed at nullifying the Trump legacy, his rebooting of U.S. Middle East policy is particularly ominous. Its hallmarks are: promoting the Palestinians over Israel; dissing the United Arab Emirates that made peace with the Jewish State; and, worst of all,…

Secure Freedom Minute: Get China Out of Our Electric Grid!

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Americans were horrified to learn in the early days of the Chinese Communist Party-induced pandemic that our country is acutely dependent on China for protective gear and medicines. Now we’re discovering the PRC supplies another determinant of our public health and safety: the U.S. electric grid.…

Secure Freedom Minute: Team Biden Must Affirm the CCP is Engaged in Genocide

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A prominent Chinese influence operator named Di Dongcheng recently bragged that China’s “old friends” on Wall Street had for decades ensured that U.S. government policy suited Beijing. He relished the prospect that, after a rough patch with Donald Trump, America would once again be submissive to…

Secure Freedom Minute: Climate Alarmism is a National Security Threat

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, President Joe Biden placed “climate change at the center of our domestic, national security and foreign policy.” The clear implication is that the very real – and growing – threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the mullahs of Iran are…

Secure Freedom Minute: Biden-Induced Buyer’s Remorse

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The bloom may be coming off the rose of the Biden-Harris presidency. Or maybe it’s just buyer’s remorse as millions of Americans who voted for Joe Biden – and others whose votes against him weren’t accurately counted – are confronting the reality that he’s certainly not…

Secure Freedom Minute: National Insecurity – The Obama-Biden Legacy

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among the most insidious legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency was the wrecking operation he conducted against the U.S. military. It was defunded, disarmed and subjected to social experimentation without regard for the adverse consequences for our troops’ warfighting capabilities, readiness and morale. Tragically, Joe Biden is…

Secure Freedom Minute: The CCP Has No Business in America’s Critical Infrastructure

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A preeminent concern about a Biden-Harris presidency is whether those two “old friends” of Communist China will do its bidding to America’s great detriment. One of the administration’s first, ominous acts suggests they are so inclined. An initial Biden Executive Order clears the way for the…

Secure Freedom Minute: Elections Have Consequences, Alright

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. If anyone doubted that “elections have consequences,” look no further than Joe Biden’s busy first day in the White House. The new President immediately reversed a number of his predecessor’s policies. Among the blizzard of problematic Executive Orders he signed on “Day One” were directives that…

Secure Freedom Minute: Who Benefits from Biden’s “America Last” Policies?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. America gets a new President today. So does Communist China, and the rest of the world. Joe Biden is expected to take immediately a number of steps aimed at reversing his predecessor’s “America First” policies. Many of these – and others sure to come – will…

Secure Freedom Minute: What Will We Tell Our Children

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. My old boss, Ronald Reagan, warned that every generation faces an existential threat to freedom. Unfortunately, we face a number of them. If our enemies prevail, Reagan believed, “We will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like to…

Secure Freedom Minute: Time to Designate the CCP as a Transnational Criminal Organization

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The State Department has just confirmed that a Chinese laboratory suspected of being the source of the Covid-19 virus that’s killed nearly 400,000 Americans is associated with the Beijing regime’s illegal biological weapons program. Unfortunately, this is but the latest proof that the Chinese Communist Party…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Coming Payday for Betrayal?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A top Chinese Communist Party influence operator boasted recently that China’s “old friends” on Wall Street have, for decades, successfully compelled the U.S. government to do Beijing’s bidding. A prime example was the 2013 deal brokered by then-Vice President Joe Biden that gave the CCP preferential…

Secure Freedom Minute: America’s Best Diplomat

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Our seventieth Secretary of State is arguably the best in our nation’s history. Certainly, few, if any, can match Mike Pompeo’s brilliance, his clarity about America’s vital role in the world and his courage in countering the dangers we face internationally. Consider two examples of such…

Secure Freedom Minute: End the TRUMP Treasury Department’s Sabotage of POTUS

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among President Trump’s most important legacies is depriving the Chinese Communist Party of U.S. investors’ continued underwriting of its military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, that legacy is being seriously jeopardized by what is nominally the Trump Treasury Department. The huge impact of the Executive Order Mr. Trump issued…