Posted on 03/17/2016 10:31:35 AM PDT by PA-LU Student
The following are members of Ted Cruz’s national security coalition:
Elliott Abrams was an assistant secretary of State in the Reagan administration and a deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration; he is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Stewart Baker served as assistant secretary for policy at DHS, as general counsel of the National Security Agency, and as general counsel of the bipartisan commission that investigated intelligence failures involving WMD and Iraq.
Ilan Berman is vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, and an expert on Iran, Russia and radical Islam.
Lt. General William G. “Jerry” Boykin is a retired US Army Delta Force and Green Beret commander and the Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council.
Fred Fleitz is senior vice president of the Center for Security Policy and a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst.
Randy Fort has served in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations in senior positions in the intelligence community, and is currently an executive with the Raytheon Company.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is the President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. He acted as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under President Reagan.
Nile Gardiner is a former aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former speechwriter for the Bush Administration and editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal.
Katharine C. Gorka is the president of the Council on Global Security.
Steven Groves is a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation where he concentrates on the protection of American sovereignty, treaties, and international law.
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Kristofer L. Harrison is a co-founder of the China Beige Book and was an official in both the Departments of Defense and State in the George W. Bush administration.
Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain, is the principal director of the Stoneridge Group, a national security consultancy.
Michael Ledeen is freedom scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History, and is the author of more than 35 books, including the forthcoming The Field of Fight.
Clare M. Lopez is vice president for research & analysis at the Center for Security Policy.
Andy McCarthy is former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, led the prosecution of the “Blind Sheikh” and 11 other jihadists for waging a terrorist war against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Robert C. O’Brien is a partner at Larson O’Brien LLP; he was a senior foreign policy advisor to Gov. Scott Walker and Governor Mitt Romney, and was a US Representative to the UN General Assembly.
Michael Pillsbury was a Reagan campaign advisor in 1980, served as assistant undersecretary of defense for policy planning under President Reagan, and is the author of three books on China.
Charles “Cully” Stimson is the senior legal fellow and manager of National Security Law Program at The Heritage Foundation; he is a former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.
Jim Talent was a U.S. senator from Missouri and served on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for twelve years; he is currently a senior fellow specializing in military preparedness at the American Enterprise Institute.
Daniel P. Vajdich is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and was Governor Scott Walker’s deputy foreign policy director and lead staffer for Europe and Eurasia on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Christian Whiton was a State Department senior advisor and deputy special envoy during the George W. Bush administration; he is the author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War, and is a principal at DC International Advisory.
What a shame.
He’s sold his soul to the GOPe.
This is Bush III and Hillary will crush him.
I like this development. Now, Trump, Kasich, whadda you got?
Whose foreign policy team? Trump’s?
Cuz Cruz will never have one. At least not this election cycle.
He’ll need one to coordinate his draw down and exit strateegery.
Trump has Jeff Sessions.
I would put him up against Council on Foreign Relations, UN and DC NeoCon party hacks for days.
Nope.
He’s ramping up war in the ME to wage a Holy War.
After Kerry identified ISIS as committing genocide against Christians, this will be it, folks.
all illumunati
On what do you base your claim?
Who on this team is GOPe or Bush III?
A very strong and seasoned team.
I don’t like Cruz, but I will give him credit here for posting something substantive that wasn’t just some lame Trump slam. If he’d been doing stuff like this for the last month, he’d probably be doing a lot better right now.
Now he needs to go back and repudiate HIMSELF for blaming Trump for the BLM/leftist rioters, and maybe he can win some goodwill back. Maybe.
Trump announced his yesterday.
Why would Cruz do this? What an ass.
What a nasty thing to say to me. what did I ever do to you? I was only suggesting that the other candidates should say who or what they will rely on for guidance in foreign policy. Is that really worthy of such nastiness? You’d think I had cut you off on the freeway or something.
The same retreads going back to Reagan. Where is Brent Scrowcroft????????
I wonder if his wife had any influence?
Way to represent your candidate. Stupid crap like this drove me far away from Trump. It’s also going to make it harder to try to win over enough support for November. We are going to have to win back 10-20% of GOP voters who are planning on sitting out. These tactics will not help.
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