Frank Gaffney Frank J . Gaffney , Jr . ( born April 5 , 1953 ) is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy , columnist at " The Washington Times " , " Big Peace " , and " Townhall " , and radio host on Secure Freedom Radio . Early life . Gaffney was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . In 1975 , Gaffney graduated from the Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University . He received his graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University ' s Paul H . Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . Career . 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 , Gaffney held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration , again serving under Perle . In April 1987 , Gaffney was nominated to the position of US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy . He served as the acting Assistant Secretary for seven months , though his confirmation was ultimately blocked by the United States Senate . In 1988 , Gaffney established the Center for Security Policy ( CSP ) , a neoconservative national security and defense policy organization . Gaffney appeared on " FahrenHYPE 9 / 11 " , the conservative documentary that was a rebuttal to Michael Moore ' s film " 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 . PBS claimed that the film failed " to meet their standards , " but Gaffney called the decision " censorship . " He is a founding member of the Set America Free Coalition to reduce dependence on foreign oil and is part of the current iteration of the Committee on the Present Danger . In November 1992 , Gaffney ' s Center for Security Policy organization released a report detailing voter fraud in Angola ' s presidential election . Election officials stopped registering voters 40 days before the election . Polling stations had identical voting results . The MPLA retained a monopoly on television election - coverage . CSP also found widespread vote buying by the MPLA , the discarding of as many as 25 % of cast ballots , and electricity blackouts during voter counting . United Nations special envoy Margaret Anstee said she " had never witnessed a more unfair election , even in Latin America . " Along with a number of figures who later assumed leading positions in the George W . Bush administration , Gaffney was one of 25 signatories of the June 3 , 1997 " Statement of Principles " from the controversial Project for the New American Century , an educational and political advocacy organization whose stated goal was " to promote American global leadership . " Dispute with Grover Norquist . In February 2003 , Gaffney and neoconservative David Horowitz criticized Grover Norquist , an anti - tax activist and prominent Republican strategist , for alleged ties to Abdurahman Alamoudi , Khaled Saffuri , and Sami al - Arian , all of whom had attempted to influence the Bush Administration . Gaffney said a press release by the American Muslim Council credited Ali Tulbah , a Bush - White House aide , for getting them access to the administration . Norquist banned Gaffney from the weekly " Wednesday Meeting " of the Leave Us Alone Coalition that Norquist hosted . Norquist later wrote an open letter , implying that Gaffney ' s account amounted to " racial prejudice , religious bigotry [ and ] ethnic hatred . " In 2011 , Gaffney accused Norquist of " helping the Muslim Brotherhood spread its influence " in the U . S . government . David Keene , President of the American Conservative Union , later commented on the Gaffney - Norquist dispute , saying , " I , for one , don ' t see it . If you read the transcript [ of the panel ] , you can see if Frank was right or wrong , but there was nothing racist or bigoted about it . " In a front - page story in " The Wall Street Journal " , Karl Rove dismissed Gaffney ' s assertions regarding Bush , stating " there ' s no there there . " In an article appearing in the January 2007 edition of " Vanity Fair magazine " about neoconservatives who pushed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq , Gaffney said of Bush , " He doesn ' t in fact seem to be a man of principle who ' s steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course . 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 . " Iraq War . In 2003 , Gaffney called on the United States military to " take out " " Al Jazeera " news network for inciting violence against the Western world by showcasing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein ' s " calls - to - arms . " On March 12 , 2009 , Gaffney appeared on MSNBC ' s Hardball with Chris Matthews and accused former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing , " There is also circumstantial evidence , not proven by any means , but nonetheless some pretty compelling circumstantial evidence of Saddam Hussein ' s Iraq being involved with the people who perpetrated both the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and even the Oklahoma City bombing . " Criticism of Barack Obama . In October 2008 , Gaffney questioned whether then Illinois Senator Barack Obama was a " natural born citizen of the United States " and his legal eligibility to be the President of the United States . In a series of " Washington Times " articles from February to June 2009 , Gaffney accused the Obama administration of effectively adopting the Muslim Brotherhood ' s plan for the Middle East ; Sharia law . Gaffney continued this theme in a February 24 , 2010 column on Andrew Breitbart ' s BigGovernment , when Gaffney attacked the administration ' s plans to modernize and update the missile defense program as " US submission to Islam " from " an Alinsky acolyte " , citing as evidence the redesigned logo of the Missile Defense Agency . However , " Al Kamen " reported that the new Missile Defense Agency logo is over three years old and was actually developed during the George Bush administration . Recent activities . In a series of articles in 2011 , Gaffney charged that Suhail Khan ' s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) allowed for Muslim Brotherhood influence on the proceedings . Upon investigation , the ACU Board of Directors — including Morton Blackwell , Cleta Mitchell , David Keene and Wayne LaPierre — unanimously rejected and condemned these accusations as " reprehensible " and " unfounded " . In Murfreesboro , Tennessee , Gaffney testified to support a lawsuit against the then - planned Islamic Center of Murfreesboro .