Frank poses a strong challenge to the Conservative movement to consider the role on national security in its priorities.  Chris Holton of the Center for Security Policy weighs in from the front lines of the war against the financing of terror supporting regimes.  Peter Pham gives us the story and the context of the tragic conflict in Nigeria.  Aaron Harison of Keep America Safe responds to the controversy of the ‘Al Qaeda 7′ commercial.  All this plus more from Frank.

Frank Gaffney analyzes the appalling willingness of foreign companies and foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to provide technology, investments and other forms of support to the Iranian regime. Frank then talks to Sen John McCain. Claudia Rosett joins Frank with important information on a new book. Suzanne Scholte of the North Korea Freedom Coalition calls “the worst place on earth.” She tells Frank some of the great things she is doing to change things over there.

Frank starts off with news of Geert Wilders’ recent electoral victories in the Netherlands.  Mauricio Claver Carone talks with Frank about the effort to fight for human rights in Cuba, and what the mainstream media won’t tell you about the Castro brothers’ regime.  Appalled by the Navy SEALs being put on trial for punching a terrorist? Congressman Dan Burton addresses what needs to be done about this important issue.  Bill Gertz returns to highlight the rising threat of Communist China, and what it means for you.

The war of ideas continues.  Zuhdi Jasser on the Muslim Brotherhood, its infiltration in the United States, and the need for moderate Muslims to speak out.  Gordon Chang returns to discuss the rising menace of Communist China.  Riki Ellison finishes on the need for missile defense.

Frank returns to discuss the START follow-on treaty, where Team Obama goes about seeking parity with strategic arms with Russia. Then, Cyrus Nowrasteh, director of The Stoning of Soraya M. (For a limited time: every 10th subscriber to the new Secure Freedom Radio mailing list gets a free copy of Soraya M on DVD!) Frank discusses the new YouTube ad from Keep America Safe, Who are the al Qaeda Seven?. Finally, Secure Freedom Radio regular Andy McCarthy drops in.

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Jim Hanson guest hosts Secure Freedom Radio and discusses the legality of targeted killings and drones.  Jim discuses the role of women in combat with Genevieve Chase, founder of American Women Veterans.  Spencer Ackerman and Jim diverge views on military commissions and Peter Pham provides insight into al-Qaeda infiltration in Africa and Iran’s influence in Africa via the United Nations.

Michael Rubin from the American Enterprise Institute discuses Turkey’s slide towards a non-secular state and Claudia Rosett about the operation that led to the murder of top Hamas terrorist, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai.

More on the absurd hamstringing of the CIA in intelligence gathering– 15 years behind bars for denying terrorists’ sleep? Thanks to a frequent guest on Secure Freedom Radio– Rep. Pete Hoekstra– we really dodged a bullet. Curt Winsor, former US Ambassador to Costa Rica, joins Frank to discuss events in Latin America. Then, SFR regular and Washington Times geopolitics editor Bill Gertz on technology transfer to hostile regimes.

Let me start right now by revisiting an issue with you on yesterday with Aaron Harrison about an authorization bill for the intelligence community that went into the maw of the House of Representatives, it looked as though it was headed to passage by the House with an incredible provision in it. It envisioned punishing, with criminal prosecution with sanctions up to 20 years in prison any member of the intelligence community who engaged in cruel or degrading interrogations of our enemies.

Now that may sound on the face of it to be unobjectionable, but it’s clear that when you start telling those who are putting their lives on the line to protect us that they will be subjected to criminal prosecution were they to do something perhaps no more “degrading” than denying a terrorist sleep, a proven and effective technique for inducing cooperative from folks who are trained and certainly disciplined in the business of not cooperating. You are unfortunately giving the good guys every disincentive to do their job, and creating ever greater opportunities for the bad guys to do theirs. And let’s be clear what that means: the bad guys will kill us.

Now I’m very pleased to report that I think as the result of opposition, both from members of Congress and from the public (to the extent that it was made aware in this dark of night operation by the House Democrats) of the character of this amendment offered by Congressman Jim McDermott of Washington State (one of the real Lefties on Capitol Hill), the House Democratic leadership thought better of this idea. They pulled back from the brink, they did not push the bill forward with this amendment in it; and as a result, we dodged a bullet folks— and I just wanted to tell you that I think it’s critically important that we did, it’s critically important not least to those who we are asking to do the difficult and often politically charged business of interrogating enemy detainees. A vital function, and we saw it play out in terms of this business with Abdulmutallab (the so-called “panty bomber”) not properly interrogated, lawyered up, and then subsequently began to talk a bit more which is all to the good.

We absolutely, positively need to let those who we have charged with eliciting information from uncooperative folks, especially hardened, trained terrorists—that we have the back of those in the intelligence community who are doing their jobs, not that we are trying to penalize them, incarcerate them, or otherwise destroy their careers.

Now to go back to something we talked about once before, and I think it’s particularly germane in this business, where the Left in the House of Representatives are trying very hard to see what they could do to further diminish, further constrict the techniques we could use. Already President Obama has said we’re not going to use anything other than the rules approved in the US Army Field Manual. Well, that denies us a very considerable array of coercive, some say enhanced interrogative techniques that have proven effective. And one that we discussed with Mark Thiessen, who was a speechwriter for the W. Bush Administration, he is the author of a terrific new book on this subject, Courting Disaster it’s called. Mark Thiessen pointed out that one of the three Al-Qaeda terrorists who were actually subjected to water-boarding, arguably the most controversial of these enhanced interrogative techniques, actually thanked his interrogators after he was subjected to it.

Why? He did so because that enabled him once he was pressed in a way he could not resist. It enabled him, consistent with his training, consistent with his Sharia doctrine, to yield, to give up that information. Now if you prevent our interrogators from being able to do that sort of thing, from having the tools at their disposal that enable them to elicit that kind of information by effectively breaking the will, overcoming the resistance of those they are interrogating; you greatly increase the probability that information that may be actionable, information that may be vital to protecting American lives, remains withheld from us. Now that is something we should not be doing, it is something that we cannot safely do especially when the Administration seems to have backed itself into a corner at the moment, of killing these guys because it has effectively foreclosed not only detention, but also the proper techniques for interrogating them.

Now let me be clear, I’m not saying you shouldn’t kill them when the opportunity presents itself, at least in certain instances where that will save American lives by doing it—it will ensure that we don’t unnecessarily jeopardize our forces or our interests. But here’s the problem: these guys may have information we have information we have got to get, the so-called “ticking time bomb” issues arises. We’ve got to be able to capture them on occasion at least; we’ve got to be able to detain them securely in Guantanamo Bay, we’ve got to be able to interrogate them. You don’t do all of those things, you put lives and perhaps the country itself at risk.

I’m glad the House of Representatives had the wisdom to pull back from a new affront to our security, and I hope this will be the beginning of more sensible policies out of particularly the Democratic House, but Congress in general and certainly the Obama Administration, because at the end of the day again it’s our lives that are on the line.

Well that’s what I think. Let me know what you think. Send us a note!

Today Frank raps with Gordon Chang on the Dalai Lama fall out, David Yerushalmi on Rashad Hussain and the OIC, and Aaron Harison on the many Gitmo detainee advocates now employed by Eric Holder’s Justice Department.

I want to share some thoughts with you about a woman who I admire greatly, she’s been a guest here at Secure Freedom Radio in the past, she is a member of Congress from the State of North Carolina, she is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, she’s under assault at the moment by the Muslim Brothers in America this took the form of an article that was written in the Charlotte News-Observer filed on the 25 of February, and here you have Sue Myrick who has brought to the Congress the kind of leadership that is so desperately needed. Specifically, she has helped to create and helps to run an Anti-Terror Caucus in the House of Representatives, as a vehicle for educating her colleagues about the threats of terrorism and the forces that animate it, specifically Sharia (the form of authoritative Islam that requires its adherents to engage in jihad, the violent kind wherever practicable).

What’s troubling the Islamists is that Sue Myrick has in this present session of Congress, become a member of the Committee that is supposed to, for the House, monitor closely the intelligence community, what it knows and what it’s doing with what it knows. Here in this article titled, “Myrick has US Muslims Wary,” there is an indication as a result of top secret briefings she has received as a member of the Intelligence Committee; Sue Myrick of North Carolina has “unveiled truths about home-grown terrorism she had only suspected [prior to joining the committee].” She’s not in a position to discuss that information, because it is evidently drawn from classified sources, but the point is I think what Sue Myrick has established is that the kinds of concerns she had before she joined this Committee, before she had access to this kind of classified information about the threat, has only been reinforced by what she’s learned since joining the Committee.

She now has been working hard on a project she calls Wake up America. I would really encourage you to take a look at Sue Myrick’s website, under Wake up America, which she envisions as a multi-pronged effort to fight Islamic radicalization in our country. According to this article, it has among the elements proposed: cutting off exchange programs and munitions sales with Saudi Arabia, passing legislation that would make calls for death to American citizens a form of treason, and investigating the selection of Arabic translators working for the Pentagon and FBI. I hope it will be in addition to the translators, the chaplains working for the Defense Department –for that matter, the prisons as well because there too is reason for real concern. The article goes on to say, “in recent months Myrick has taken on the Muslim law known as Sharia, suggesting that Universities are being influenced by the austere brand of Islam common to Saudi Arabia known as Wahhabism, and warned that Muslims have infiltrated political and military circles.”

Now this has sent the Muslim Brotherhood front organizations into paroxysms of denunciations. They are accusing her of “McCarthyism” in the words of some of them, the Council on American-Islamic Relations being prominent in this group. Its national Chairman, a State Legislator in North Carolina by the name of Larry Shaw says, “It looks like she’s taking on a tinge of McCarthyism, she’s becoming a hate-monger.”

Now ladies and gentlemen, I know Sue Myrick (to paraphrase a famous statement by Lloyd Bentsen), she’s a friend of mine, and Sue Myrick is no hate monger—What Sue Myrick is a courageous member of Congress, one of the few who has actually troubled herself to go to school on the threat that we talk about here a lot, and yes it is called Sharia. It is brought to us by people in the Muslim Brotherhood who are denouncing her now as a hate-monger, for precisely the reason that as we’ve talked about here a lot, that they are trying to suppress all of us from talking about Sharia, about what it entails, the kind of repression, the kind of submission it demands of all of us. And Sue Myrick, Thank God, is holding her ground—even in the face of criticism from some in her constituency and the local newspaper, she is under no illusion that nothing less than the fate of our country is on the line.

And so I would urge you to get in touch with Sue Myrick’s office, I just want to commend her to you as a real leader, as the kind of national figure we need more of. And far from allowing her to be silenced, she needs to know we’ve got her back because she’s standing up for all of us, both on the Intelligence Committee and in the House more generally, in the great struggle of our time. And if she goes down, if they are successful in silencing Sue Myrick, if the Muslim Brothers are able to intimidate her, you can bet there will be fewer still who will be able to stand up for us and we need them to do just that.

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