Frank Gaffney

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Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. (born 1953) is the founder and president of the think tank Center for Security Policy, as well as a contributor, contributing editor, and columnist for a number of publications, including the Washington Times, National Review Online, WorldNetDaily, and Jewish World Review. He is a leading neoconservative.

[edit] Career

Gaffney is a 1975 graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. Gaffney holds a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Gaffney began his public service career in the 1970s, working as an aide in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, under Richard Perle. From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration, again serving under Richard Perle.^[1] In April 1987, Gaffney was nominated to the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; he served as the acting Assistant Secretary for seven months,^[1] although his confirmation was ultimately blocked by the United States Senate.

In 1988 Gaffney established the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a self-described conservative national security and defense policy organization. The CSP is subsidized by donors supportive of conservative causes, including the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation and the William H. Donner Foundation.^[2]

Along with a number of figures who later assumed leading positions in the George W. Bush administration, Gaffney was one of 25 signatories[1] of the June 3, 1997 "Statement of Principles" from the Project for the New American Century,^[3] an educational and political advocacy organization whose stated goal is "to promote American global leadership."^[4]

Gaffney appeared on FahrenHYPE 9/11, the conservative documentary that was intended as a rebuttal to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

Gaffney was an executive producer for the documentary Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center. The documentary was created to air as part of the America at a Crossroads series on PBS, but it has not been shown to date.

Gaffney is the lead author of War Footing (Naval Institute Press, 2005), a collection of essays that "...offer ten specific steps that Americans, as individuals and as communities, can take to ensure their way of life and safety and the future well-being of their children and grandchildren."^[5]

He is a founding member of the Set America Free Coalition, dedicated to reducing dependence on foreign oil, as well as of the current iteration of the Committee on the Present Danger.

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[edit] External links

• "Funding terrorism with our petrodollars" Video clip in which Gaffney talk about oil dollars funding Islamic terror.
• "Take out Al-Jazeera" September 29, 2003 article in which Gaffney argued for taking Al Jazeera "off the air, one way or another."
• Official biography (Center for Security Policy)
• Profile from IRC