Frank Gaffney

American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.is an American defense policy analyst who founded the far-right anti-Muslim group, Center for Security Policy (CSP), serving as its first president, and a former presidential appointee under President Ronald Reagan.

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About the Frank Gaffney

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.is an American defense policy analyst who founded the far-right anti-Muslim group, Center for Security Policy (CSP), serving as its first president, and a former presidential appointee under President Ronald Reagan. He has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy from 1983 to 1987, and seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration. He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023 and thereafter as executive chairman.

In 1987, he was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

7 Quotes by Frank Gaffney

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    ). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are… the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush’s Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations’ dues to sustain the UN’s operations.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)

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    The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

    Frank Gaffney

    American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)