Secure Freedom Minute

With the benefit of hindsight, experts debate whether we had foreknowledge about the deadly Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks on our homeland. There can be no such dispute about those being readied by the Chinese Communist Party.

For example, FBI Director Chris Wray warned last week that the CCP is planning to “wreak havoc” here with cyberwarfare. The same day, the Justice Department announced it had just thwarted such an attack. And a new multinational report says Chinese government hackers have been “hiding” inside our critical infrastructure for five years. 

Last month, ten former senior FBI executives wrote that Chinese and other military age men invading our border threaten catastrophe. 

Tomorrow at noon Eastern Time, we will map out Xi Jinping’s incipient Pearl Harbor – and what we must do about it now. Every American should see it. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The folks who lost Afghanistan are working to do the same to Israel – with even more dire consequences. 

In this case, Team Biden is actively putting the survival of the Jewish State at risk while enriching and emboldening her mortal enemies – and ours: namely, the Sharia-supremacist Iranian regime, its myriad terrorist proxies and their ultimate sponsor, Communist China.

My colleague, Caroline Glick, has brilliantly exposed the extent of this wrecking operation in a column at JNS.org. She describes eleven different ways in which the American people’s support for Israel is being betrayed by Biden and Company, including by Washington’s efforts to topple the elected government of Benjamin Netanyahu. So much for Biden’s purported commitment to “democracy.”

Congress must reject Afghanistan 2.0 and approve without further delay the weapons Israel urgently requires to win the war she is waging for us, as well.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

The train wreck that passes for Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate has reached the point where even Minority Leader Mitch McConnel is expected to vote against the so-called "immigration reform" bill he has directed Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford to negotiate with Democratic counterparts. 

That's because this legislation is being vehemently rejected by everyone who wants the Biden administration's disastrous destruction of our southern border reversed. Instead, it would legitimize and compound that policy, for example, by allowing in a further 5,000 illegal aliens every day. 

The expected repudiation of these poisonous fruits of McConnell's leadership by both House Republicans and his own caucus should bring down this aging and increasingly infirm exemplar of the "controlled opposition." The GOP stands to win back its Senate majority this fall – but only if it offers a real and appealing alternative to Team Biden's malfeasance. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Last Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that the Chinese Communist Party plans to use cyber attacks to “wreak havoc” on America’s critical infrastructure. That same day, the Justice Department announced just such a Chinese attack had been thwarted. 

Frankly, Wray’s warning sounds more like butt-covering than the needed truth-telling and call-to-action concerning the “People’s War” against us that the CCP declared in 2019. 

Indeed, Wray seems unconcerned about such threats as: the thousands of Chinese military personnel coming across our borders; the multiple biolabs the CCP’s likely operating here; or the 400 high-voltage transformers made in China now literally inside the wire of our electric grid.

My colleague, Mike Waller’s new best-seller, Big Intel, compellingly argues that we must break up the FBI, retaining under new leadership the elements needed to fight our actual enemies, foreign and domestic. Amen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

An important new study exposes Team Biden’s reckless disregard for reality in the existential war being waged by Sharia-supremacists against our ally, Israel – and, ultimately, against us and the rest of Judeo-Christian civilization. 

It cites, for example, a claim by the faction Biden insists can be relied upon to run post-war Gaza and a new Palestinian state, that last year, “More than 1,500 military operations against the Israeli occupation were led by the Fatah Movement members and the [Palestinian Authorities’] Security Forces.”

When the President sanctioned four Israeli West-Bank “settlers” yesterday for violence against Palestinians and their supporters, however, he made no mention of such “operations” by the very PA paramilitaries the U.S. is training and arming. By so doing, he is inviting more of those jihadist attacks – and very possibly an October 7th-style massacre in Judea and Samaria.

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Biden says he has decided on a response to the Iranian-enabled attack that killed and wounded 30 American troops in Jordan. So far, he’s done nothing, but based upon his pathetic performance to date, the mullahs’ surrogates may suffer inconsequential retaliation. 

Financial warfare expert Roger Robinson, who helped Ronald Reagan take down the Soviet Union by restricting its cash-flow, has a far better idea: Do the same to the Tehran regime’s principal sponsor by ending U.S. investors’ funding of Communist Chinese companies doing business with Iran.

As Mr. Robinson discussed with Maria Bartiromo yesterday, his Prague Security Studies Institute found that major U.S. firms like Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock are plowing billions of dollars from American pension funds and other investment vehicles into propping up Iran’s military, energy sector and surveillance state. 

We must stop underwriting our enemies now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

According to Team Biden, the President is committed to securing the southern border and rarin' to sign bipartisan Senate legislation that would do just that. In fact, Joe Biden has destroyed that frontier, thereby enabling – with help from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – a literal invasion for which both deserve to be impeached.

The truth is that Joe Biden deliberately created the present crisis. Only a man determined to perpetuate it could try to portray a bill that would admit at least five thousand more unlawful immigrants every day and create new amnesty incentives for coming here as one that will "shut down the border."

The Biden-Mayorkas invasion will not end with more such malfeasance. That requires instead finishing "the wall," enforcing our existing immigration laws and removing those who violated them – starting with the unaccompanied, military-age Chinese and jihadist males.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, universally known as UNRWA, supposedly provides humanitarian assistance for so-called Palestinian “refugees.” In practice, it has been allowed for decades to provide material support to Gaza’s Hamas terrorists. 

Now, there’s sufficiently compelling evidence of twelve UNRWA employees participating directly in Hamas’ genocidal October 7th invasion of Israel that seventeen nations have suspended funding pending the completion of a likely UN investigatory whitewash. 

An indispensable group, UN Watch, will demonstrate in congressional testimony today, these are not – as the United Nations and its apologists insist – “a few bad apples.” Rather, the entire operation is rotten to the core and should be defunded permanently. 

And it is high time that a former UNRWA employee named Maher Bitar who is, incredibly, the Senior Director for Intelligence at the Biden National Security Council, be sent packing, as well.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Iran-controlled jihadists have just killed and injured thirty American troops based in Jordan. This attack is but the latest in the escalating violence engineered by Tehran and carried out by  its proxies to provide minimal “plausible deniability” for the mullahs – and their friends and, yes, agents inside the Biden administration.

So, when President Biden says we’ll hold the perpetrators accountable and respond at a time and manner of our choosing, what he means is we will continue to pretend Iran is not responsible and mete out minimal punishment to some of its expendable surrogates.

Welcome to the Middle East the three Obama-Biden administrations have labored to construct – characterized by Iranian hegemony and U.S. impotence. Brace for more aggression against us and our dwindling number of friends,  fueled by the ayatollahs’ imminent – if not actual – nuclear weapons capability that our government has enabled.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Last week, ten former FBI executives warned congressional leaders of “an invasion” that has taken place since 2021 by large numbers of unaccompanied, military-age men from China, Russia and “terror-linked regions.” They specifically anticipate such personnel could inflict “catastrophic damage” on “innocent Americans and the infrastructure that keeps the nation safe and functioning.” 

This danger is exponentially increased if any of these men are able to marry up with the sort of deadly pathogens discovered in a bio-laboratory the Chinese Communist Party secretly set up in Reedley, California. A House committee investigation assesses that there could well be more of these facilities here.

The FBI veterans urge that “the border must be secured against these young men and those already here illegally must be identified and removed without delay.” A failure to do so is an invitation to disaster.

This is Frank Gaffney.