Gaffney is founder of Secure Freedom Radio, an hourly show that reports on foreign policy issues, allowing experts, pundits and top policymakers to discuss the topics of the day. During President Reagan’s two terms, Gaffney served stints as deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear forces and arms control policy, and later as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy. Who are the three most interesting people you’ve interviewed and why?
I think one is Nonie Darwish because she is a regular kind of person brought up in the household of a terrorist. She left Islam, left that life and the threat posed to us.
Jim Woolsey, former director of the CIA, he is deeply knowledgeable about a lot of different things from energy security, national security to country music.
Gen. Jack Keane, formerly the vice chief of staff of the Army. He was instrumental in getting the surge done in Iraq, a real “warrior’s warrior.” He understands the challenges this country is facing and what we’ve got to be doing to rise to those challenges.
What does the future hold for Secure Freedom Radio?
My hope is we’ll have a chance to bring it to a lot more markets around the country as people learn about it. My feeling about what we’re doing and why it is so important is that the entire American experiment is premised on an informed electorate. … We can’t afford to continue to have voters unaware of the stakes we’re up against.
Who have you not had on your radio show that you would like to interview in the future?
I would like to interview Donald Rumsfeld, for one. I’d like to hear his story on what went on while he was at the helm of the Pentagon during those critical years before and after 9/11.
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