Secure Freedom Minute

In closed door sessions yesterday, the Biden administration finally briefed Congress about the Chinese Communist Party’s latest addition to its comprehensive “unrestricted warfare” against our country.  

Lawmakers who spoke afterwards seemed properly dissatisfied that enough was done to protect our nation and population against the extensive espionage conducted by a high-altitude balloon – to say nothing of the possibility that platform could have been weaponized and potentially catastrophically dangerous to our electric grid.  

Fortunately, the rest of us with a need-to-know about such dangers can get briefed by top experts via a compelling Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar conducted on Tuesday. And, thanks to an important new report at SecureFreedom.org, we can learn how – in the face of federal failures to counter various threats from the CCP – U.S. states can and must step up to protect our people.   

This is Frank Gaffney.

Seymour Hersh, a journalist with a checkered record of sensational, but not always accurate, reporting claims that on September 26, 2022, a covert action ordered by President Joe Biden blew up three of four Russian undersea pipelines known as Nordstream 1 and 2.

Based upon what appears to be a single source, Hersch describes how months earlier, Navy divers executed a complex and highly classified operation to clandestinely put in place remotely controlled explosives.

 While this account may or may not prove to be true, we do know that forty years before, another president ordered the CIA to take steps that spectacularly sabotaged a Siberian gas pipeline – causing the most massive non-nuclear explosion ever and catalyzing Ronald Reagan’s take-down of the Soviet Union and its evil empire.

Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan. But did he reprise one of Reagan’s greatest achievements? 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Last night, Joe Biden reprised in the Capitol the false narrative that election deniers brought us an insurrection aimed at overthrowing our government.  

The President neglected to mention that his administration is simultaneously intervening in Israel to support leftists denying the results of the election that brought Bibi Netanyahu back to power with a mandate to reform an unaccountable and anti-democratic judiciary.

Neither did he acknowledge that those leftists are now openly calling for "civil war," the overthrow of the Israeli government, and even the assassination of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

A Center for Security Policy briefing yesterday revealed that Team Biden is threatening to abandon the Jewish State to a nuclear Iran unless Netanyahu reneges on his commitment to Israeli voters to restore historic limitations on the power of their supreme court.

Democracy needs accountable government in Israel – and here.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Tonight, we’ll hear a speech that purports to describe the State of the Union. Unfortunately, it’s predictable that it will further exacerbate what might best be called the state of Biden’s disunion.

After all, no president in modern American history has done more than Joe Biden to foster and intensify divisions between this nation’s people along racial, economic and ideological lines.

This is not an accident. Neither is it a product of presidential   senility or incompetence.

Rather, it follows the playbook of Marxists for taking-down countries they have been elected to lead, often under false pretenses. Candidate Biden promised to unify and “build back” America, but has divided and impoverished us by: exploiting a pandemic to strip away our freedoms; fostering devastating inflation; breeding enmity in the name of “equity” and “diversity”; and wrecking U.S. power and prestige.

Spare us more lies, Joe.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On January 28th, the Chinese Communist Party sent a spy balloon into our airspace. It took President Biden until February 1st to order that it be shot down, which finally occurred on February 4th after its surveillance mission was complete.

This episode offers two notable insights: First, the balloon is kaput, but not the rest of the CCP’s comprehensive efforts to steal our secrets, including via: satellites, cyber techniques and countless human “collectors,” both spies as well as students, businessmen and tourists.

Second, the Biden administration concealed from the American people the balloon’s presence in the interest of having Secretary of State Tony Blinken travel to Beijing for meetings meant to promote the idea that the Chinese Communists are partners, not a threat.

The CCP actually is America’s mortal enemy. We cannot safely obscure that reality, or fail to defend ourselves against it.

This is Frank Gaffney.

“When the balloon goes up” is military slang for the start of a shooting war. The Chinese Communist Party has literally sent a very large balloon up to collect intelligence over sensitive sites

in the continental United States and the Biden administration’s refusal to shoot it down invites actual hostilities.

 

Presumably, a determination to avoid any unpleasantness on the eve of Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s visit to Beijing next week contributed to Team Biden’s latest act of submissiveness.

But it will only reinforce the CCP’s calculation that it can behave aggressively against us with impunity.

 

Unfortunately, as a powerful Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday made clear, the Chinese Communists are already at pre-kinetic war with America. Their serial

appeasement by our “captured” leadership elites only intensifies the likelihood of that war becoming a violent one.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long deserves the first Congressional Medal of Honor for non-combat-related heroism under intense “fire.” Together with three other military whistleblowers, she has exposed the extensive, often fatal and intensifying damage being done to our armed forces personnel by so-called COVID-19 “vaccines.”  

Colonel Long recently told Epoch Times that Pentagon data concerning critical groups within the uniformed services has revealed that, “There is a statistically significant increase in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm in young healthy fit pilots.” 

The military’s shameful response has been to relieve Dr. Long of her duties and, even worse, to cook the books – altering the evidence to try to conceal its frightening implications for not just the troops, but everyone who has been jabbed.  

Thankfully, Senator Ron Johnson has been helping the whistleblowers, but he – and they – need our support, too. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Biden’s meeting today with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will address whether spending constraints are attached to a bill that will raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

The best way to accomplish real budgetary discipline, however, would be to secure the resignation from the presidency of a man who has over five decades in government proven to be an inveterate binge-spender.

Fortunately, the probability of that outcome continues to grow, albeit not because of the harm done by the trillions of dollars he’s added to the liability side of the federal balance sheet.

Rather, as evidence continues to accumulate that Joe and his son Hunter betrayed our country by selling not only access, but state secrets, and congressional inquiries ramp up that could lead to the President’s impeachment, next week’s State of the Union address seems likely to be his last. Thank God.

This is Frank Gaffney.

On Friday, Air Force General Mike Minihan told his subordinates who provide the military with transportation and logistical support to prepare for war with Communist China. The Pentagon says his “comments are not representative of the Department's view on China.”

If true, that’s an indictment of the Biden Defense Department. It ignores the reality that the Chinese Communist Party is mobilizing for violent conflict with us. And we better pray that every U.S. commander is following Gen. Minihan’s lead, not Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s.

Moreover, every American investor and their Wall Street fund managers better be getting our money out of China. After all, it surely won’t be possible once Xi Jinping starts hostilities. Such undisclosed material risk is compounded by the fact that those investments are currently underwriting the CCP’s preparations for violent aggression – and it must stop now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

I can’t recall over the past four decades a more important, surprising and needed unclassified directive than the one just issued by Air Force General Mike Minihan. He commands some 100,000 airmen who provide mobility and other vital logistical support to his own and the other armed services. 

With extreme urgency and clarity, Gen. Minihan has directly ordered his subordinates to prepare for war with Communist China. His focus is on taking whatever steps they can to train and operate with a view to deterring and, if necessary, defeating our time’s existential threat to freedom: the Chinese Communist Party. 

The general thinks we have until 2025 to get ready for a Chinese onslaught. Pray that’s not unduly optimistic – and that the rest of our military and political leadership agrees that we must prepare now for war if we have any hope of preventing it.    

This is Frank Gaffney.