Secure Freedom Minute: A Yawning Electoral Vulnerability – Stop Counting US Votes in Spain

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: Stop Weaponizing Intelligence for Partisan Purpose

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: Partisan Censors Don’t Qualify as s “Free Press”

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: The Weaponized “Fourth Estate” Creates an Imbalance of Power

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: First Sanction, Then Block US Investment in, the CCP’s Ant Group

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: South Korean Canary in the Mine Shaft

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. South Korean ambassador to the United States Lee Soo-Hyuck has declared, “Just because South Korea chose the U.S. seventy years ago doesn’t mean it has to choose the U.S. for the next seventy years, too.” This is a symptom of the “fundamental transformation” being systematically engineered…