CCNS’ Roger Aronoff, interviewed the legendary New York Times reporter and playwright Bernard Weinraub. They discuss the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” Weinraub wrote a play about 15 years ago called “The Accomplices,” which addresses some of the same issues covered in the Burns documentary. 

Bernard Weinraub began working at The New York Times as a copyboy. He rose through the ranks to work as a foreign correspondent in Vietnam, in Belfast, in New Delhi, and London. He was a Pentagon reporter, a political writer, and a White House correspondent during the final years of the Reagan administration and the first year of Bush 41. He left Washington and became The New York Times’ Hollywood correspondent in 1991, and after his 1997 marriage to Columbia Pictures President Amy Pascal, Weinraub was given the new title of “Senior West Coast Cultural Correspondent.”

This week’s episode of The National Security Alert is a remembrance and recap of our four-year investigation as the the Citizens Commission on Benghazi. My guests today were Clare Lopez (former CIA officer) and Tom McInerney (retired Air Force General who led the 1986 air attack into Libya).

In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff interviewed longtime journalist Claudia Rosett about some of the major topics of the day, including the death of Gorbachev, the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine war, threats posed by China, and the possible return to the JCPOA with Iran. Rosett worked many years for the Wall Street Journal, as Moscow bureau chief, a member of the editorial board, Editor of the editorial page of the Asian WSJ, as well as covering China, the UN, and North Korea. She spent about a dozen years as journalist-in-residence and is now with the Independent Women’s Forum.

This week’s guest is Thomas Homan, a 33-year law enforcement veteran with nearly 30 years of immigration enforcement experience. He's served as a police officer in a small town in New York, a U.S. Border Patrol agent and as a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He was the Executive Associate Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Obama, and the Acting Director of ICE under President Trump. He is a Fox News analyst and author of a book titled “Defend the Border and Save Lives.”

With host Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the CCNS, they discussed a wide range of issues related to America’s wide open southern border: sanctuary cities, drug/sex/child trafficking, fentanyl, the rationale behind Biden’s policies, the differences on border issues between Trump and Biden, and media coverage of all of it. This is a must-see episode of The National Security Alert.

In this episode of The National Security Alert, host Roger Aronoff, the executive director and editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS), interviewed James Carafano, the vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, David Tice, the producer/director of a new documentary, “Grid Down, Power Up,” and spoke with Maj Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.) about the past nine years as co-founding members of both the Citizens Commission on Benghazi and CCNS. 

With Carafano, Aronoff discussed threats to U.S. national security, such as China, Iran and certain Biden administration foreign and domestic policies.

David Tice’s documentary examines what would happen if the United States power grid were to ever shut down. It looks at what could cause it, including cyber-hacking or an EMP, and what we can do to prevent it.

In this episode of The National Security Alert, host Roger Aronoff, the executive director and editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security, interviewed Rep. Brian Babin of Texas and The People’s Pundit, Rich Baris.

Rep. Babin, whose district includes part of Houston, discussed problems as a result of the open border between Mexico and Texas, the energy policy of the Biden administration, and the sham January 6 committee.

Rich Baris discussed the recent primaries in Arizona and concerns about the integrity of upcoming elections.

In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) talks with Marc Morano, a former senior staff member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think, and the soon to be released The Great Reset. He is the producer of the documentaries Climate Hustle (2016) and Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy (2020).

They discuss the lies and politics behind the claims that global warming, now referred to as climate change, is an existential threat and a national security threat. They look at media coverage of the issue, and how big corporations, including oil companies, have been seduced or threatened into supporting major aspects of the agenda of the Green New Deal. And how the pandemic has set the stage for greater population control and potential tyranny.

In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) talks with Capt. Larry Bailey, a 27-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, about his career in the Navy, including stints in Vietnam, Dominican Republic and more, plus his three years when he was Commander of the Naval Special Warfare Center, where all the Navy SEALs are trained.

They also discussed some of Bailey’s post-military activities including the Gathering of Eagles, Special Operations Speaks, and his involvement with both the Citizens Commission on Benghazi and the Citizens Commission on National Security. Other issues include “stolen valor,” people who claimed to have had a military career that turned out not to be true, and wokeness in the military today and how that affects military readiness. Bailey names names and doesn’t hold back.

In the first of a new series of video podcasts, titled “The National Security Alert,” Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) Executive Director and Editor Roger Aronoff interviews Clare Lopez, a former CIA officer and a member of the CCNS. The series will be examining issues that the CCNS considers to be threats to America, from China and Iran on the international scene to open borders, Big Tech censorship, and disastrous energy policies on the domestic front.

In this premier episode, Aronoff and Lopez discuss the issue that ultimately led to the establishment of the CCNS, Benghazi, to current issues including Iran, China, the war in Ukraine and more. We hope you will find this to be a fascinating and informative discussion, the first of many to come.