Center for Security Policy

Center for Security Policy

Abbreviation	CSP
Formation	1988
Type	501(c)(3) non-profit educational
Headquarters	1901 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Location	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Founder and President	Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Website	centerforsecuritypolicy.org

The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is a conservative, Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The organization's founder and current president is Frank Gaffney Jr. The organization's mission statement is "To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security", where main activities are focused on exposing and researching what it believes to be jihadist threats to the United States. The Center has been accused of engaging in conspiracy theorizing by a range of individuals, media outlets and organizations. It has been described as "not very highly respected" by BBC News. In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center described the CSP as a hate group and a "conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement", a characterization disputed by the CSP.

In April 1987, during the Reagan Administration, Frank Gaffney, Jr. was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He served in that role for seven months, until was forced from his post in November of that year. In a meeting with former Department of Defense officials after Gaffney's ouster, Richard Perle, for whom Gaffney had previously 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 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."

The CSP says there is "Stealth Jihad by adherents of Shariah" to install shariah law as a "parallel legal and political system in the United States, constituting a separate governance system for the Muslim community with respect to family law, civil society, media and political discourse, finance and homeland security." Former CIA director James Woolsey has co-authored a report for CSP, saying sharia law is a major threat to United States.