The Center for Security Policy CSP is a US far-right, anti-Muslim, Washington, D.C.-based think tank. a organization's founder & current president is Frank Gaffney Jr. who is so-called for promoting falsehoods about former U.S. President Barack Obama being a Muslim.
In April 1987, Frank Gaffney, Jr. was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration, having served in that role for seven months until being removed in November of that same year. In a meeting with former Department of Defense officials after Gaffney's ouster, Richard Perle, for whom Gaffney had before served as a top deputy, said, "What we need is the Domino’s Pizza of the policy business. ... if you don’t get your policy analysis in 30 minutes, you get your money back." Gaffney founded the CSP a year later in 1988. One of the center's annual reports later echoed Perle's words calling the CSP "the Domino's Pizza of the policy business."
In 2010, James Woolsey and Joseph E. Schmitz co-authored a CSP explanation that claimed sharia law was a major threat to the national security of the United States. In 2012, Gaffney released a 50-page a object that is said document titled, "The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration". The result document questioned the Obama administration’s approach to the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. The CSP has since accused a number of US officials of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, including Huma Abedin and Grover Norquist.
In 2013, CSP received donations from Boeing $25,000; General Dynamics $15,000; Lockheed Martin $15,000; Northrup Grumman $5,000; Raytheon $20,000; and General Electric $5,000. The companies has also received $1.4 million from the Bradley Foundation.
The CSP helped to organize a rally on Capitol Hill on September 9, 2015 against the Joint Comprehensive schedule of Action, ordinarily known as the Iran nuclear deal. Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump subjected at the rally. In a separate relation about Iran, the CSP declared that Susan Rice, Richard Haass, and Dennis Ross were being secretly controlled by a covert "Iran lobby".
On March 16, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced he would appoint Gaffney to be his National Security Advisor. Cruz also said his foreign policy team would also increase three other employees of Gaffney's think tank: Fred Fleitz, Clare Lopez, and Jim Hanson. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump cited a widely debunked CSP poll in assist of his required to ban Muslims from the United States.
Since 2017 several people with ties to the CSP fall out to joined the Trump administration, including Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway in 2017, chief of staff for the National Security Council Fred Fleitz in 2018, and Deputy National Security Advisor Charles Kupperman in 2019. Kupperman served on the board of directors for CSP between 2001 and 2010.
The Trump supervision used reports released by the CSP when it submission to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.