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TheCenter for Security Policy (CSP ) is a USfar-right ,[ 5] [ 6] anti-Muslim ,[ 7] [ 8] Washington, D.C. –basedthink tank . The founder and former president of the organization isFrank J. Gaffney Jr. , who now serves as the group's executive chairman. The current president since January 1, 2023, is Tommy Waller, a formerUS Marine .[ 9] DBA [ b] Secure Freedom .[ c] [ 4] counter-jihad campaign and the website counterjihad.com.[ 10]
History and programs [ edit ] In April 1987,Frank Gaffney Jr. was nominated to serve asAssistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during theReagan Administration , having served in that role for seven months until being removed in November of that same year.[ 11] Department of Defense officials after Gaffney's ouster,Richard Perle , for whom Gaffney had previously served as a top deputy,[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
In 2010, there were 19 co-authors of the CSP "Team B II" reportShariah: The Threat To America sharia law was a major threat to the national security of the United States.[ 15] [ 16] [ 15] Obama administration ’s approach to theMuslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.[ 17] Huma Abedin [ 18] Grover Norquist .[ 19]
In 2013, CSP received donations fromBoeing ($25,000);General Dynamics ($15,000);Lockheed Martin ($15,000);Northrop Grumman ($5,000);Raytheon ($20,000); andGeneral Electric ($5,000).[ 20] Bradley Foundation .[ 21]
The CSP helped to organize a rally onCapitol Hill on September 9, 2015, against theJoint Comprehensive Plan of Action , commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal.[ 22] Ted Cruz andDonald Trump spoke at the rally.[ 23] Susan Rice ,Richard Haass , andDennis Ross were being secretly controlled by a covert "Iran lobby".[ 18]
On March 16, 2016, Republican presidential candidateTed Cruz said he would appoint Gaffney to be hisNational Security Advisor . Cruz also said his foreign policy team would also include three other employees of Gaffney's think tank:Fred Fleitz ,Clare Lopez , and Jim Hanson.[ 24] Donald Trump cited a CSP poll in support of hisrestrictions on travel from several Muslim countries .[ 25] [ 16]
Trump administration [ edit ] Since 2017 several people with ties to the CSP have joined theTrump administration , includingCounselor to the President Kellyanne Conway in 2017, chief of staff for theNational Security Council Fred Fleitz in 2018,[ 26] Deputy National Security Advisor Charles Kupperman in 2019.[ 27] [ 27]
The Trump administration used reports released by the CSP when it proposed to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.[ 28]
The Center and Gaffney have been criticized for propagating conspiracy theories byDana Milbank ofThe Washington Post [ 29] Salon ,[ 30] Peter Bergen ,[ 15] Grover Norquist ,[ 31] Jonathan Kay ,[ 32] Georgetown University 'sPrince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding ,[ 33] Center for American Progress ,[ 34] Media Matters for America ,[ 35] Southern Poverty Law Center ,[ 18] The Intercept [ 36] Anti-Defamation League ,[ 37] Institute for Southern Studies ,[ 38] counter-jihad movement,[ 39] [ 40]
In 2016, theSouthern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) labeled the CSP as ahate group and a "conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement",[ 41] [ 42] [ 43] [ 44] [ 45] [ 25] [ 18]
One of the CSP's "Occasional Papers" accusedHuma Abedin , thenHillary Clinton 's aide, of being an undercoverspy for theMuslim Brotherhood .[ 18] Michele Bachmann ,Trent Franks ,Louie Gohmert ,Thomas Rooney andLynn Westmoreland , sent a letter to theState Department Inspector General including accusations against Abedin cited to the CSP. The letter and the CSP's accusation were widely denounced as a smear, and achieved "near-universal condemnation", including from several prominent Republicans such asJohn McCain ,John Boehner ,Scott Brown , andMarco Rubio .[ 32] [ 38] [ 46]
Writing inReligion Dispatches ,Sarah Posner described the organization as "afar-right think tank whose president, Frank Gaffney, was banned from theCPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] ... because its organizers believed him to be a 'crazy bigot'".[ 47] Queens College, City University of New York has said the center is among the "key players in the Sharīʿah cottage industry", which it describes as a "conspiracy theory" that claims the existence of "secretive power elite groups that conspire to replace sovereign nation-states in order to eventually rule the world".[ 48]
In March 1995,William M. Arkin , a reporter and commentator on military affairs, criticized the CSP's Gaffney as a "maestro of bumper-sticker policy" who "specializes in intensely personal attacks" and who has "never met a flag-waving, pro-defense, anti-Democratic idea he didn't like."[ 14] U.S. Missile Defense Agency "appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo" and was part of a "worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam".[ 20] [ 49]
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