Frank Gaffney

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Frank J. Gaffney Jr. (born 1953) is the president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times. His latest book is War Footing (Naval Institute Press, 2005).

He is a former Reagan administration Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (his appointment was blocked by the U.S. Senate) and is head of the Center for Security Policy, a self-described conservative national security and defense policy organization. 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 Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

He says that:

"the international situation bequeathed by Bill Clinton to George Bush was considerably more threatening than was widely perceived at the time." [1]

He appeared on FahrenHYPE 9/11, the conservative documentary that acts as a rebuttal to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

He is a signatory--along with several major figures in the George W. Bush administration--of the June 3, 1997 "Statement of Principles"[2] from the Project for the New American Century, "a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership."[3]

In 2002, he was banned from the weekly center-right "Wednesday meeting" hosted by conservative activist Grover Norquist for his wholly unsubstantiated attack on several White House staff of the Muslim faith.