Secure Freedom Minute: Vote as if freedom depends on it, because it does

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.…

Secure Freedom Minute: Address this foreign threat to our elections

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: Job 1 for the Next POTUS will be the CCP

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: We Must Not Underwrite the CCP’s “Technologically Enhanced Totalitarianism”

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: America’s Justice

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…

Secure Freedom Minute: The End of Free and Fair U.S. Elections?

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…

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…