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…
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.…
This week’s episode of The National Security Alert is a remembrance and recap of our four-year investigation as the the Citizens Commission on Benghazi. My guests today were Clare Lopez (former CIA officer) and Tom McInerney (retired Air Force General who led the 1986 air attack into Libya).
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…
In this episode of The National Security Alert, host Roger Aronoff, the executive director and editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS), interviewed James Carafano, the vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, David Tice, the producer/director of a new…
In this episode of The National Security Alert, host Roger Aronoff, the executive director and editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security, interviewed Rep. Brian Babin of Texas and The People’s Pundit, Rich Baris. Rep. Babin, whose district includes part of Houston, discussed problems as a result of the…
In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) talks with Marc Morano, a former senior staff member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to…
In this episode of The National Security Alert, Roger Aronoff, the Executive Director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) talks with Capt. Larry Bailey, a 27-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, about his career in the Navy, including stints in Vietnam, Dominican Republic and more, plus…
In the first of a new series of video podcasts, titled “The National Security Alert,” Citizens Commission on National Security (CCNS) Executive Director and Editor Roger Aronoff interviews Clare Lopez, a former CIA officer and a member of the CCNS. The series will be examining issues that the CCNS considers…