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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 considered a neoconservative.
He is a 1975 graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University and holds a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Gaffney began his public service career working as an aide in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson under Richard Perle in the 1970s. In April of 1987, Gaffney was nominated to and temporarily acted in the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. His appointment was 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.
He is a signatory of the June 3, 1997 "Statement of Principles" from the Project for the New American Century, "a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership," along with figures who later became major members of the George W. Bush administration.
However, his relationship with Bush administration officials and other conservatives eventually worsened. In 2002 he was banned from the weekly "Wednesday Meeting" of the Leave Us Alone Coalition hosted by conservative activist Grover Norquist for attacking what Gaffney claimed were Bush Administration ties to radical Islamic groups. Gaffney's statement angered Norquist, who warned that the Republican party should not be associated with "racial prejudice, religious bigotry or ethnic hatred," and referred to Gaffney as a:
sick, little bigot... His whole life screams of bigotry, and what he said is just part of a pattern... Frank Gaffney and Osama bin Laden share the same view on the relationship between the United States and Islam. I agree with the president in rejecting Osama bin Laden's and Frank Gaffney's worldview.
Norquist's comments so angered David Keene of the American Conservative Union that Keene stopped talking to Norquist. However, Keene and Norquist have since reunited as conservative activists and serve together on the Board of the ACU and NRA, among other organizations.
In a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove dismissed Gaffney's assertions regarding President Bush stating "there's no there there." In an article appearing in the January 2007 edition of Vanity Fair about theneoconservatives who pushed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Gaffney says of President Bush:
'He doesn't in fact seem to be a man of principle who's steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course,' Gaffney says. 'He talks about it, but the policy doesn't track with the rhetoric, and that's what creates the incoherence that causes us problems around the world and at home.'
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."
He is a founding member of the Set America Free Coalition, dedicated to reducing dependence on foreign oil.
References
- "Recipient Grants: Center for Security Policy, Inc". MediaTransparency.org. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- "Statement of Principles". Project for the New American Century. June 3, 1997. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- "About PNAC". Project for the New American Century. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- ^ "Fight on the Right". National Review Online. March 19, 2003. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- Hamburger, Tom (June 11, 2003). "In Difficult Times, Muslims Count On Unlikely Advocate". The Wall Street Journal.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Rose, David (January 2007). "Neo Culpa". Vanity Fair.
- "War Footing: Amazon.com book description". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
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 the International Relations Centre