America’s Missing Leadership at Home and Abroad

On Secure Freedom Radio today, Frank Gaffney spoke to Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado who serves on the Armed Services Committee.

Obama is still trying to close Gitmo and if he’s successful, prisoners could be transferred to the Supermax prison in Colorado which Lamborn believes is a horrible idea. Not only would it ultimately reveal strategic information to terrorists in a court setting, it would give them the potential to radicalize other prisoners.

Lamborn also spoke about the situation in the Middle East and revealed some disheartening truths about our allies in the region:

“They don’t see American leadership. We unfortunately have had seven years under Barack Obama of not backing allies. We try to cozy up to people like Putin with the reset, the Iranians with this deal, nuclear deal, and yet we ignore our allies. They wonder why they’re ignored.”

That led Gaffney to ask about the seizing of our seamen recently by Iran which Lamborn suggested was a possible violation of the Geneva Convention. He also said that the incident is still under investigation.

Frank asked Lamborn about military funding issues and Lamborn suggested the Obama administration is playing with the amounts and might come in under the recommended targets.

“You know, it should be a no-brainer for everyone Frank that national security should come first and should be funded first, then we do everything else.”

Finally, they spoke about the possibility of an attack on our electric grid which is a horrifying prospect.

Lamborn said the issue is urgent:

“At a small cost… we could harden and protect these critical facilities for the future. And it’s not just what a bad actor could do like a rogue nation like Iran. Also, naturally occurring causes, a huge solar flare could cause the same kind of damage, so we should be wise and prudently invest a small amount to harden these facilities before something bad happens.”

Later in the program, Gaffney spoke to Rep. Brian Babin of Texas who is spearheading the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, a measure intended to vet Syrian refugees.

Babin was not encouraging in his estimation of the refugee situation:

“As you know, our own FBI director and the director of Homeland Security have said they can’t vet these people properly so we can screen these ISIS infiltrators out of them. Since we spoke, we’ve got the Paris attacks where almost 500 people were killed or wounded, we’ve had San Bernardino. One of those attackers was a native but his wife came here on a fiancé visa.”

Babin and Gaffney then discussed Obama’s bizarre choice to visit a mosque while all this is happening and Babin went on to describe the horrors currently taking place in Europe such as the recent sexual assaults in Germany.

“Do we really want that inside the United States? I don’t think so.”