EMPact America holds press conference: "What if Iran already has the bomb?"
Former government experts provided a realistic assessment of Iran's nuclear weapons program and warned that the threat deserves urgent attention.
Click on the video image above to watch the recording of the entire press conference. The video clip below right is from CBN News, and briefly sums up the event. Video recording of the entire press conference is available from EMPact America. For information about obtaining a copy of our video recording, send an email to info@empactamerica.org.
Featuring:
• Reza Kahlili, Ex-CIA Spy in the revolutionary guards of Iran and the author of the award-winning book, A Time to Betray; and instructor at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy of the Department of Defense.
• Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Tony Shaffer, U.S. Army, Bronze Star recipient and Senior Intelligence Officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
• Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, President of EMPact America, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, and 10 year veteran of the CIA. Dr. Pry and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett co-authored "BARTLETT & PRY: What if Iran already has the bomb?: Better to be prepared than surprised" (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/2/what-if-iran-already-has-the-bomb/print/)
• Ken Timmerman, CEO of Foundation for Democracy of Iran; author, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Iranian Nuclear Showdown.
• Chet Nagle former CIA, and author of The Iran Covenant and The Woolsorters' Plague.
• Peter Huessy, President of GeoStrategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland, a defense and national security consulting firm, who has written extensively on Iran and nuclear issues.
• Cynthia Ayers, former NSA Visiting Professor to the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College, and VP EMPact America.
This event was attended by Congressional Members, Congressional Staff, and the Press.
Video: Event was videotaped and that video is available from EMPact America to members of the press and to interested grassroots organizations.
This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. This study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions.
Distinguished contributors to the report include:
Team Leaders:
LIEUTENANT GENERAL WILLIAM G. "JERRY" BOYKIN, US Army (Ret.), former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
LIEUTENANT GENERAL HARRY EDWARD SOYSTER, US Army (Ret.), former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Associates:
AMBASSADOR HENRY COOPER, former Chief Negotiator, Defense and Space Talks, former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative
* STEPHEN C. COUGHLIN, ESQ., Major (Res.) USA, former Senior Consultant, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* MICHAEL DEL ROSSO, Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute and Center for Security Policy
* FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR., former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (Acting), President, Center for Security Policy
* JOHN GUANDOLO, former Special Agent, Counter-Terrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
* ADMIRAL JAMES A. "ACE" LYONS, US Navy (Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
* BRIAN KENNEDY, President, Claremont Institute
* CLARE M. LOPEZ, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
* ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney; Senior Fellow, National Review Institute; Contributing Editor, National Review
* PATRICK POOLE, Consultant to the military and law enforcement on anti-terrorism issues
* JOSEPH E. SCHMITZ, former Inspector General, Department of Defense
* TOM TRENTO, Executive Director, Florida Security Council
* J. MICHAEL WALLER, Annenberg Professor of International Communication, Institute of World Politics, and Vice President for Information Operations, Center for Security Policy
* DIANA WEST, author and columnist
* R. JAMES WOOLSEY, former Director of Central Intelligence
* DAVID YERUSHALMI, ESQ., General Counsel to the Center for Security Policy
This official version includes an expanded section on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as well as the complete text of the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,"entered into evidence in the US v Holy Land Foundation trial.
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News Conference and Video Links
On September 15, 2010 the Center for Security Policy presented its Team B II Report, Shariah: The Threat to America, to Congressmen Trent Franks and Pete Hoekstra on Capitol Hill. Present at the event were Team B II members Frank Gaffney, Andy McCarthy, Lt. Gen. Soyster (Ret.), David Yerushalmi, Amb. Hank Cooper, Michael Del Rosso, Christine Brim, Stephen Coughlin, John Guandolo, Adm. "Ace" Lyons, Tom Trento, Patrick Poole, Clare Lopez, and Diana West.
Shariah: The Threat to America