Secure Freedom Minute

A former senior undercover CIA operative named Gary Berntsen has released a video in which he asserts, based apparently on first-hand knowledge, that machines widely used in elections across the United States are unreliable.

The charges are not new. They include claims that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez developed them to steal one of his own elections. And then, with help from others in Europe and China, the software and hardware were refined to engineer undetected desired electoral outcomes worldwide.

What is new news is that Mr. Berntsen reportedly has not only personal insights into how we got here. He claims to have witnesses able and willing to confirm his allegations.

If true, we obviously cannot have such compromised machines used in this fall’s critically important elections. We must, instead, hand-count paper ballots cast in person by voters with valid government-issued IDs.

This is Frank Gaffney.   

The Harris-Biden administration has serially betrayed Israel to prevent her from destroying Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime that runs them.

Threats to cut off the vital and promised resupply of weapons the Israelis require to defend themselves have been accompanied by successive diplomatic actions aimed at isolating – and even criminalizing – them and efforts to topple their democratically elected government.

Now, it appears a U.S. official with access to highly classified information about Israel’s preparations for a fully warranted retaliatory strike against Iran has deliberately divulged it to the mullahs. The repercussions for our ally are potentially catastrophic. Ditto the compromise of our “sources and methods” for gathering such sensitive intelligence.

Far from encouraging peace in the Middle East, the American government’s subversion is ensuring that the remainder of the war Israel must win will be more protracted, far wider and more devastating. 

This is Frank Gaffney.   

Yesterday, Israel killed another jihadist monster with American, as well as Israeli, blood on his hands. Kamala Harris believes that should be the end of the war to destroy the Hamas movement that Yahya Sinwar led in the attack on October 7th and its bid to destroy the Jewish State before and since.

Even prior to Sinwar’s liquidation, the Harris-Biden administration was coercing Israel effectively to give Hamas “humanitarian assistance” in northern Gaza or face a cut-off of promised weapons deliveries essential to her survival in this now eight-front war.

And after the election, irrespective of the winner, it seems likely the administration will take an even more counterproductive step by extending official U.S. recognition to the non-existent state of Palestine.

Memo to Kamala: The vast majority of Americans want our ally, Israel, to defeat – not lose to – Hamas. So should you.

This is Frank Gaffney.   

Perhaps our nation’s darkest hour was the dawn of December 7, 1941 when Japanese aircraft took by surprise most of the U.S. Pacific fleet and fighters neatly arrayed in peacetime formations in Pearl Harbor’s bases. The devastation and loss of life inflicted was horrific.

Evidently, we were miraculously spared a vastly worse military defeat last December. For seventeen nights, an array of unmanned drones of unknown origin overflew the world’s largest military complex in the Virginia Beach area.

Had they been armed and used to attack the region’s myriad ports, airfields and shipyards, the strategic setback we suffered temporarily at Pearl Harbor would have paled by comparison.

The fact that we were unable to full assess – let alone stop – such potentially disastrous penetrations for over two weeks is a dire warning about our internal insecurity and the need to immediately adopt a war-footing.

This is Frank Gaffney.  

In about a month’s time, tens of thousands of environmentalists and their corporate sponsors plan to spend eleven days as guests of the government of Azerbaijan.

There are two things really wrong with this picture:

First, the Azeri regime is a major oil exporter with a horrible record of pollution – behavior the environmental movement supposedly abhors.  

And second, a year ago, Azerbaijan – with help from Turkish special forces – finished blockading and starving 120,000 Christian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh by forcing them to flee to Armenia. And those jihadists threaten to attack the Armenians next to finish the genocide that killed 1.5 million of them in World War I.

If the UN, its environmentalist partners and their corporate backers don’t want to be recognized as frauds and complicit in genocide, they better move the so-called “COP29” meeting, or at a minimum boycott it.

This is Frank Gaffney.          

Iran recently attacked Israel with nearly 200 ballistic missiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to retaliate. He must do so decisively.

Yesterday, Canada’s formidable opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, publicly made the case for including among Israel’s targets the mullahs’ vast nuclear weapons-related infrastructure. He said, “I think the idea of allowing, a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate…to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow.

“And if Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”

Ditto if Bibi targets the Iranian regime itself, giving that nation’s longsuffering people a chance finally to free themselves from the monsters who brutally repress them and threaten the rest of humanity.

This is Frank Gaffney.