Dave Reaboi

Dave Reaboi

Dave Reaboi is the Director of Communications at the Center for Security Policy, where he coordinates the transmission of Center information, such as advertising, broadcasting, and journalism. He is also the Center's website manager and the director of its YouTube site, Securefreedom. Prior to joining the Center in early 2008, he was a writer of technical documentation. He is a graduate of George Washington University where he specialized in Cold War and totalitarian ideologies. He is also a jazz historian and musician.
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Exclusive: Obama Reads Book; Author Corrects President’s Reading Comprehension

Posted by Dave Reaboi Feb 9th 2012 at 7:22 am in Exclusives, Foreign Policy, News, Obama, Politics, Strategy | Comments(39)
Historian Robert Kagan is calling out Barack Obama for his reading comprehension skills, telling the President his multilateral foreign policy will actually ensure an America in decline. In private meetings, Obama has reportedly been using Kagan’s new book to rebut criticism of his “leading from behind” foreign policy. Late this past January, the New York Times [...]
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For Negotiating US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Obama Taps the Muslim Brotherhood’s Qaradawi

Posted by Dave Reaboi Dec 31st 2011 at 8:50 am in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East, sharia | Comments(54)
Andy McCarthy today points to a terrifying story from the Indian newspaper The Hindu, reporting that the Obama administration has tapped informal Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusef al-Qaradawi, the world’s most famous Sunni shariah jurist and thinker, to facilitate negotiations with the Taliban for American withdrawal from Afghanistan. In order to fully appreciate the magnitude of [...]
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Full-Speed Ahead for Obama-Sanctioned ‘Taliban Embassy’ in Qatar

Posted by Dave Reaboi Dec 17th 2011 at 7:02 pm in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Middle East, News | Comments(71)
Qatar: host to the US military, al-Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood– and now, the world’s first Taliban embassy– at the behest of the Obama administration. On his Facebook page, Big Peace contributor Walid Phares brought my attention to a report in the Pakistani website The Nation that Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the premier of US ally Qatar, [...]
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Cynthia Farahat Testifies to Congress on Jihad and the War on Egypt’s Coptic Christians

Posted by Dave Reaboi Dec 9th 2011 at 10:15 am in Egypt, Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East, human rights | Comments(8)
This week, Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Ms. Farahat spoke about her experiences as an activist and co-founder of the Liberal [...]
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Obama’s Friend Erdogan To Give Hamas $300 Million

Posted by Dave Reaboi Dec 5th 2011 at 6:20 pm in Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Terrorism | Comments(35)
Humanity Voice is reporting that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has recently promised Hamas a donation of $300 million. Turkish sources reported that Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, sent a confidential letter to Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, inviting him to visit Turkey, [...]
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Cynthia Farahat: Egyptian Elections & the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by Dave Reaboi Dec 1st 2011 at 9:54 am in Featured Story, Middle East | Comments(14)
Political activist Cynthia Farahat appeared yesterday on Voice of America’s Straight Talk Africa to discuss the situation in Egypt amid the parliamentary elections there. She will be testifying before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on December 7, in a hearing entitled, “Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.” Check back here [...]
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Allen West: Keeping The Flame Burning

Posted by Dave Reaboi Oct 6th 2011 at 9:21 am in Congress, Featured Story, History, Soldiers | Comments(61)
Here’s another stirring speech from Rep. Allen West, who really needs no introduction. Every time he speaks, it’s like a valentine to the very best of American public service– honor, wisdom, and love of country. This week in Washington, my colleagues and I at the Center for Security Policy honored the chairman of the House Armed [...]
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Ex-Secretary of the Navy John Lehman: In Praise of Swagger

Posted by Dave Reaboi Sep 20th 2011 at 9:32 am in Soldiers | Comments(12)
This past summer, my colleagues and I at the Center for Security Policy honored Dr. John Lehman, former Secretary of the US Navy under President Reagan and the individual most identified with the maritime aspect of that president’s “peace through strength” philosophy, the 600-ship Navy. (Watch Dr. Lehman accept the 2011 Freedom Flame Award here.) This [...]
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Are We Safer? An Online Symposium

Posted by Dave Reaboi Sep 11th 2011 at 12:39 pm in Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamic extremism, Strategy, Terrorism, sharia | Comments(2)
On the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th, the Center for Security Policy has released a new publication: Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th (PDF, 44 pages, 258k). The symposium is a collection of short essays from an array of individuals, some currently in office, others who formerly [...]
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The Center for American Progress Can’t Hide Shariah Forever

Posted by Dave Reaboi Aug 31st 2011 at 12:54 pm in Islam, Islamic extremism, sharia | Comments(38)
This week, the far-left Center for American Progress’ report on the so-called “‘Islamophobia’ industry” was well-received by one of its target audiences, the foreign Islamist press. Both Al Jazeera and Iranian state-sponsored Press TV did segments on it, and the usual echo-chamber of radical left, anti-Israel, and Muslim Brotherhood-sympathetic blogs and websites gushed predictably. In a [...]
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