Following a debt deal debacle, a broken border and corruption at the top levels of government, what now? With the extended drama over the debt ceiling hike behind us, having passed a compromise deal agreed to by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden, the good news is that we…
CCNS member Clare Lopez and former CIA officer was interviewed for the National Security Alert by Roger Aronoff at CPAC last month. They discussed Iran, specifically about the Biden administration’s determination to bring back the JCPOA, the so-called Iran nuclear deal. Also, Clare discusses Iran’s role in 9/11, something that…
In another of our series of interviews from last month’s CPAC, CCNS Executive Director and Editor Roger Aronoff interviewed Kash Patel. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Patel’s background, he has served his country as a federal prosecutor of terrorism cases, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior…
CPAC 2023, the Conservative Political Action Conference, earlier this month at the National Harbor just outside Washington, D.C., was another State of the Union for the conservative movement. There is always a fine line and complicated relationship between the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and this year was no…
In this interview with Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccines (and DNA vaccines), discusses his experiences, his observations and his transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic, and his book, “Lies My Gov’t Told Me,” with host Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National…
What a week, once again. Will we ever get to 218? That is the question. The way I see it, this has been a useful and productive process. I am no Kevin McCarthy fan, as I wrote about in 2015 when he blew his near certain chance to become speaker…
Scooter Libby went from being Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney, and Assistant to President George W. Bush to being tried for perjury and obstruction of justice. Today and for most of the last two decades he has been with the Hudson Institute, a national security think tank, where…
[Editor’s note: This article was the February-A 2011 AIM Report, which I wrote when I was the Editor of Accuracy in Media. It is about the movie, “Fair Game,” starring Sean Penn as Joe Wilson and Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame. I had covered Scooter Libby’s trial in 2007. Libby…
Roger Aronoff was a guest on Ark Midnight with John B. Wells to discuss Benghazi and the Jan. 6 committee, plus the history of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi and the Citizens Commission on National Security Listen here:
CCNS’ Roger Aronoff, interviewed the legendary New York Times reporter and playwright Bernard Weinraub. They discuss the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” Weinraub wrote a play about 15 years ago called “The Accomplices,” which addresses some of the same issues covered in the Burns documentary.…
In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff interviewed longtime journalist Claudia Rosett about some of the major topics of the day, including the death of Gorbachev, the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine war, threats posed by China, and the possible return to the…
This week’s guest is Thomas Homan, a 33-year law enforcement veteran with nearly 30 years of immigration enforcement experience. He’s served as a police officer in a small town in New York, a U.S. Border Patrol agent and as a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He was…