Tag Archives: Diana West

Digging Deeper on the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal

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With Ken Timmerman, Jim Hanson, Diana West, David Harris

KEN TIMMERMAN, author of “Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi”

  • Accusations of a double-standard over Hillary’s 2012 firing of the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya for use of private email
  • The troubling allegations of Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
  • Falsified intelligence briefs and the source of the infamous Benghazi video red herring

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Army Special Operations officer:

  • The target that Hillary Clinton’s private email server poses for hackers and state-sponsored cyber malice
  • Importance of rooting out those who wage civilization jihad in the United States

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Possible implications of email and Clinton Foundation donor controversies on Hillary’s potential 2016 campaign
  • Criticism of a Senate GOP letter to Iran from those in Congress hoping for a nuclear deal with Tehran
  • Iraq War veteran USMC Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins’ right to a speedy trial

DAVID HARRIS, Director of the International Intelligence Program of INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.:

  • Can the Stephen Harper government comprehend the threat of Muslim Brotherhood operations in Canada?
  • The legal argument for outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood in North America
  • Efforts by Muslim Brotherhood officials to promote themselves as the leaders of the Islamic communities in the West
  • Canada’s dangerous immigration and refugee resettlement policies

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Boris Nemtsov’s Death Did Not Silence His Work

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With Garry Kasparov, Fred Fleitz, Charles Freilich, Diana West

GARRY KASPAROV, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and former World Chess Champion:

  • Who was Boris Nemtsov and why was he killed
  • Putin’s history of political assassinations
  • How the U.S. leadership vacuum created the current war in Ukraine

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst and current Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at CSP:

  • Weighing Netanyahu’s speech this week against those of Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill
  • Counterpoints to the Administration’s arguments supporting a nuclear deal with Iran
  • Reasons it might be Iran that stops a nuclear deal from being made
  • New revelations about further clandestine Iranian nuclear facilities

CHARLES FREILICH, former Deputy National Security Adviser in Israel, now at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs:

  • Can the Iranian nuclear deal be seen as the least bad option?
  • The international delegitimization campaign against Israel
  • Why Lawfare should be more troubling to the PA than Israel

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Remembering the life and accomplishments of M. Stanton Evans
  • Are tributes to Stan Evans purposefully ignoring his quest to expose the truths of the McCarthy era?
  • The story of Martin Dies, a predecessor to Joseph McCarthy

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Supporting and Defeating the Global Jihad in a Single “Strategy”

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With Tawfik Hamid, Diana West, F. Michael Maloof, Van Hipp

Dr. TAWFIK HAMID, Senior Fellow and Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies:

  • How Muhammad Morsi’s record evidences the Muslim Brotherhood’s jihadist ideology
  • Egypt’s view: the Obama Administration seems more interested in supporting radical Islam than defeating it
  • The challenge Egyptian President el-Sisi posed to al-Azhar and the broader Muslim world

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • President Obama’s statements regarding Islamist grievances at his CVE Summit
  • Rep. André Carson’s (IN-7) appointment to the House Intelligence Committee
  • Influence of nefarious actors in institutions responsible for homeland security

F. MICHAEL MALOOF, author of “A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe”:

  • The surprisingly public U.S. government announcement of its strategy to take back the ISIS-held Iraqi city of Mosul
  • Threats facing the U.S. electric grid from all directions

VAN HIPP, Chairman of American Defense International, Inc., and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army:

  • Threats to the U.S. from cyber terrorists, radical Islam, porous borders, EMP attacks, and biological warfare
  • Benefits of partnering with moderate Muslim reformers, such as King Abdullah II of Jordan
  • How political correctness emboldens enemies of the United States
  • Wide-reaching implications of an attack on a major U.S. port or harbor
  • Is the U.S. Navy adequately resourced to conduct international power-projection missions AND provide homeland security?

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Chinese Military Shortcomings?

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With Larry Wortzel, J. Christian Adams, Rosemary Jenks, Diana West

Dr. LARRY WORTZEL, former Commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress:

  • China enters a new phase of expeditionary warfare
  • The PLA’s problem of personnel quality and corruption
  • Going forward, a need to restrict military cooperation with China

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, former DoJ official and author of “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department”:

  • Is a Hawaiian separatist movement being supported by Communist China?
  • Did Eric Holder show racial bias when dealing with the Ferguson case?
  • The legislative–not judicial–process needed to enforce amnesty laws
  • Concessions the Senate should ask for in return for confirming Loretta Lynch as Attorney General

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA:

  • The potential Department of Homeland Security shutdown over funding of the President’s executive amnesty
  • Why the Senate has no options in the fight over DHS spending
  • How the refugee resettlement industry could serve as a trojan horse for the Islamic State

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Confronting the issue of rhetoric and use of the term “Islamism”
  • Appeasement as a policy means to avoid giving offense today and during the Cold War
  • Administration outreach in the lead up to the White House’s Countering Violent Extremism Summit

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Cognitive Dissonance in the Western World

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With Eric Schmitt, Diana West, Roger Kimball, Mark Schneider

ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times reporter and co-author of “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Campaign Against Al Qaeda”:

  • One general’s quest for the truth behind the Islamic State
  • The ideological vulnerabilities of the West
  • What Kobani reveals about the Islamic State’s strategy
DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:
  • A military failure to properly educate U.S. forces about what motivates ISIS
  • The minority that has “weaponized” Islam
  • Message of the Pentagon-sponsored essay contest honoring the late Saudi King Abdullah

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion:

  • The politics of appeasement and cognitive dissonance
  • Terror attacks’ common thread
  • Theocratic pressure on Western institutions
Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, former Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy Principal Director for Forces Policy:
  • Cold War-style nuclear provocations in the U.K.
  • Putin’s continued escalation in Ukraine to distract from the tattered Russian economy
  • Russian ICBMs in the Crimea
  • The stated goal of full nuclear modernization in Russia by 2021

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Stopping the Iranian Hegemony in the Middle East

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With Bing West, Diana West, Fred Fleitz, Katherine Zimmerman

BING WEST, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs:

  • Why Obama believes history will treat him favorably on foreign policy
  • Potential red lines that will force U.S. troops back into Iraq
  • The need for a new Anbar Awakening
  • American allies’ mistrust of America’s role in defeating the Islamic State

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Repression in Saudi Arabia and the Pentagon essay contest regarding the late King Abdullah
  • Controversy over the BBC’s hesitance to label the Charlie Hebdo attackers “terrorists”
  • The century-spanning discussion and debate over radical Islam
  • Will French authorities crack down on “no-go zones” and the urgent security threat posed by home-grown jihadists?

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA Analyst and Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy:

  • Obama’s recent statements concerning the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program
  • How Iran is taking advantage of the U.S. power vacuum
  • The Middle East’s looming nuclear arms race
  • Will Iran save the Obama Administration from itself?

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Research Fellow and lead Al Qaeda Analyst on the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project:

  • Shia Houthi rebels in control of Sanaa’a and the disbanding of the Yemeni government
  • Saudi Arabia’s options for confronting Iranian influence in Yemen
  • The role of U.S. counterterrorism policy in whatever governance arises in Yemen

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Executive Amnesty Versus National Security?

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With Rep. Ileana Ros-Lethinen, Mark Krikorian, Diana West, Jim Hanson

Rep. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (FL-27), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa:

  • Reestablishing trust between the Executive and Legislative Branches and securing the border before implementing any measure of immigration reform
  • Obama’s policy in Cuba, post-prisoner swap
  • Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s search abroad for economic assistance
  • Is freedom of expression under threat?
MARK KRIKORIAN, Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:
  • The Aderholt legislation’s threat to block DHS funding unless the President changes immigration policy
  • Will the Republican Congress be blamed for a Homeland Security shutdown?
  • Current enforcement regulations handcuffing border patrol agents
DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:
  • Lessons learned from European terror attacks dating back to the 1970’s PLO atrocities
  • Defending Western culture against shariah blasphemy laws and suppression of religious freedom
  • The West’s true salvation must come from the ability to defend its own way of life, not from Arab leaders
JIM HANSON, former Army Special Operations Technical Weapons Sergeant:
  • French Police and Intelligence Services “no-go zones” catalyzing terrorism and anti-Semitism
  • The lackadaisical approach to home-grown anti-terrorism by Western governments
  • Fleeting media attention given to Boko Haram’s African, Islamic Caliphate
  • If Guantanamo Bay is under the jurisdiction of the Cuban regime, what will become of prisoners who don’t fit the criteria for international conventions or U.S. criminal courts?

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The Jihad Strikes Again… in Paris

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With Michel Gurfinkiel, Diana West, Michael S. Smith II, John Hannah

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

  • Who’s behind the Paris terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo?
  • Possible connections between author Michel Houellebecq’s new novel and today’s attack
  • “No go zones” in certain Islamist-majority neighborhoods in France
  • Tensions between France’s shariah-adherrent radicals and non-Muslim and traditional Muslim sects

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Charlie Hebdo’s history of satirical coverage of religious matters
  • Certain European governments divorcing Islam from attacks by religious extremists
  • Crisis of civilization jihad in the western world

MICHAEL S. SMITH II, Co-Founder of Kronos Advisory LLC:

  • AQ’s latest issue of Inspire, the English language propaganda magazine, seeks to capitalize on the rise of the “lone Jihad” movement
  • Ideological influences of Salafiya Jihadiya over both lone jihadists and organized terrorist groups
  • Why HUMINT gathering and counterterrorism polices will ultimately win the war against lone wolves

JOHN HANNAH, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Advisor to VP Dick Cheney:

  • The President’s current posture towards Iran
  • Libya provides a blueprint for how to “de-nuclearize” Iran through coercive diplomacy
  • Assad vs. Iran vs. the U.S. in Syria
  • How the Obama Administration has drastically undermined Israel’s ability to confront the Islamic Republic militarily

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The Tragedy of Intolerance

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With Diana West, Jim Hanson, Michael Pack, and Dan Pollak

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s response to the threat from the international jihad movement
  • Street protests over the influx of refugees into Germany
  • Unrest in New York City over the death of Eric Garner

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Special Operations Master Sergeant:

  • Yesterday’s school massacre in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Is it possible to distinguish between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban ideology?
  • More lone wolf theories arising after the Sydney hostage crisis

MICHAEL PACK, filmmaker and President/Founder of Manifold Productions, Inc.:

  • Looking at the legacy of Adm. Hyman Rickover in the film “Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power”
  • The criticism Adm. Rickover faced for his long tenure and micromanagement of the nuclear navy
  • How Adm. Rickover helped win the Cold War and fundamentally transformed the U.S. Navy

DAN POLLAK, former U.S. Navy Submarine Officer and Co-Director of Government Relations at the Zionist Organization of America:

  • The introduction of females into the submarine service
  • Shortcomings of the U.S. undersea deterrent amidst Chinese military modernization
  • Hamas’s removal from the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations

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The Continued Fight to Secure America’s Electrical Grid

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with Rep. Pete Sessions, Aviv Regev, Michelle Van Cleave, Diana West

Rep. PETE SESSIONS (TX-32), Chairman of the House Rules Committee:

  • Successful passage of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act in the House
  • Has Iran penetrated U.S. electric grid control systems?
  • The wide-reaching implications of the executive action on amnesty
  • Why funding the government to avoid a shutdown is having a direct impact on Congress’ leverage from power of the purse

1st Lt. (Res.) AVIV REGEV, star of the new documentary “Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front”:

  • An inside look at “Beneath the Helmet,” which explores the challenges of Israeli teens during their mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces
  • The diverse melting pot of the Israeli “People’s” Army
  • Re-surging threats from Hamas and other anti-semitic actors
  • Possible U.S. sanctions against Israel over land settlements

MICHELLE VAN CLEAVE, Nation Counterintelligence Executive under President George W. Bush:

  • The Senate’s newly-released CIA torture report
  • Is interrogation as a way of obtaining intelligence falling to the wayside?
  • The CIA’s need for human intelligence
  • Implications of the DNI’s establishment of a new center meant to combine security and counterintelligence functions

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Are Danish street gangs serving as a proxy force for enforcing Shariah law?
  • French police “No-Go” zones in certain predominantly Muslim neighborhoods
  • Founder of the Dutch Party for Freedom under assault regarding his comments about the Netherlands’ Moroccan minority

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