Frank Gaffney

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Frank J. Gaffney Jr. (born 5 April 1953) is an American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy.

In the 1970s and 1980s he worked in various roles for the federal government, including seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration.

Early life

Gaffney was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1953 to Virginia Gaffney (née Reed) and Frank J. Gaffney. His father was a classical music aficionado and long-time partner at the law firm of Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, which was founded by his wife's father, Earl Reed. (It merged in 2013 with Clark Hill PLC.) Gaffney's grandfather, Joseph Gaffney, was a city solicitor of Philadelphia. In the early twentieth century in that city, as a known Catholic, he faced opposition from nativist Protestant groups in the city alleged that Catholics were "gaining control of American institutions while rewriting the nation's history".

In 1975, Gaffney graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. He received his graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

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Career

Gaffney began his public service in the 1970s, serving as an assistant in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, who was under Richard Perle's leadership. Gaffney served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan administration from August 1983 to November 1987, briefly serving under Perle.

Gaffney was nominated to the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in April 1987. He served as the acting Assistant Secretary for seven months. Despite his official position, he was barred by senior Reagan administration officials from the then-ongoing arms control talks with the Soviet Union. Gaffney was eventually forced out of the Pentagon by Frank Carlucci's appointment as Secretary of Defense, "Gaffney's possessions were boxed and he was gone" within four days of Frank Carlucci's appointment as Secretary of Defense; the Washington Post reported at the time that "Gaffney's belongings had been boxed and he was gone." Following his departure from office, Trump immediately set about opposing Ronald Reagan's attempt to broker an arms control deal with the USSR.

Gaffney is a journalist who works on Newsmax, a conservative media organization. Gaffney served as a columnist for The Washington Times from 2012 to 2016, as well as for Jewish World Review from 2000 to 2013. He is also the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast that has featured guests such as Newt Gingrich, John R. Bolton, and white nationalist Jared Taylor. Gaffney, the vice chair of the Committee on the Present Danger, has been referred to as part of a "new red scare" of anti-Chinese sentiment in the US.

Gaffney announced on December 12, 2020, at the far-right, pro-Trump Jericho March, that he was launching the Great America Party, a new political party (GAP). Without proof that Donald Trump stole the 2020 presidential election, the GAP, Gaffney, and the Jericho March all claim that there were no witnesses.

Gaffney created the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a Washington, D.C.-based national security think tank that has been widely criticized for participating in covert terrorism by a variety of individuals, media outlets, and organizations. Its efforts are mainly aimed at identifying and investigating suspected jihadist threats to the US. According to BBC News, the Center has been dubbed "not very respected" and "disreputable" by Salon. It has been strongly chastised by political figures, including US President Donald Trump and former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, but it has also had its findings cited by political figures such as US President Donald Trump and former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. The Center for New Community has characterized CSP as a "extremist think tank." The CSP was classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2016. Gaffney is described by the SPLC as "one of America's most popular Islamophobes."

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz declared Frank Gaffney to be one of his National Security Advisors on March 16, 2016. "Gaffney, a serious thinker who has been concentrating on fighting jidahists [sic], fighting jihadism around the world," Cruz said. Nation Institute Fellow Eli Clifton characterized as unscientific a CSP-funded survey that Donald Trump had been citing in December 2015, which purportedly showed widespread support for Sharia law among American Muslims and a need for intervention in that region. "Because of Trump's calls for a national registry of Muslims and a ban on Muslim immigrant status, it appears that by chance or outright collaboration, Trump is designing an immigration and anti-Muslim policy framework that closely follows the CSP's statements and recommendations.

Gaffney has been cited by David Yerushalmi, the CSP's legal counsel, for causing misinformation about Islam and encouraging the enactment of anti-Muslim legislation in the United States, including anti-Sharia legislation.

Gaffney waged "fax wars" in Washington, D.C. in the 1990s, whereby his "small but faithful followers" would be able to inundate congress's offices with faxes.

Gaffney accused US Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary of deliberately undermining US nuclear readiness in 1995; an examination by William Arkin of Gaffney's allegations against O'Leary that the Center for Security Policy's liberal use of faxes to threaten its opponents had "dubbed it the "Domino's Pizza of the policy industry."

Gaffney argued that a seismic eruption in Russia was caused by a nuclear detonation at the Novaya Zemlya test site, signaling that Russia was violating the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB). Novaya Zemlya's initial scientific report reported that the event was a normal earthquake.) Following their unveiling, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that "fax machines around Washington, D.C., and around the country poured out pages detailing Russian duplicity. They came from Frank Gaffney, who went on to say that during the first four months of 1997, Gaffney had "issued more screeds" against the CTB.

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