Let’s name them.
Quising #1 through Quisling #50, inclusive
Full text of letter plus signatories at this thread.
Top of the hour story on CNN too. Will push Trump's economy speech off the radar.
You can read the letter at the link. They are mostly people you have never heard of.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/us/politics/national-security-letter-trump.html
Names are here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/us/politics/national-security-letter-trump.html
Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff look like the two biggest names to me, but they’re Bushies.
The list of lice:
Donald B. Ayer Former Deputy Attorney General John B. Bellinger III Former Legal Adviser to the Department of State; former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, The White House Robert Blackwill Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning, The White House Michael Chertoff Former Secretary of Homeland Security; former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Department of Justice Eliot A. Cohen Former Counselor of the Department of State Eric Edelman Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; former National Security Advisor to the Vice President, The White House Gary Edson Former Deputy National Security Advisor, The White House Richard Falkenrath Former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, The White House Peter Feaver Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council, The White House Richard Fontaine Former Associate Director for Near East Affairs, National Security Council, The White House Jendayi Frazer Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Aaron Friedberg Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, The White House David Gordon Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State Michael Green Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council, The White House Brian Gunderson Former Chief of Staff, Department of State Paul Haenle Former Director for China and Taiwan, National Security Council, The White House Michael Hayden Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director, National Security Agency Carla A. Hills Former U.S. Trade Representative John Hillen Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs William Inboden Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council, The White House Reuben Jeffery III Former Under Secretary of State for Economic Energy and Agricultural Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, National Security Council, The White House James Jeffrey Former Deputy National Security Advisor, The White House Ted Kassinger Former Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Kramer Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor James Langdon Former Chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, The White House Peter Lichtenbaum Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Mary Beth Long Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Clay Lowery Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; former Director for International Finance, National Security Council, The White House Robert McCallum Former Associate Attorney General; former Ambassador to Australia Richard Miles Former Director for North America, National Security Council, The White House Andrew Natsios Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development John Negroponte Former Director of National Intelligence; former Deputy Secretary of State; former Deputy National Security Advisor Meghan O’Sullivan Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Dan Price Former Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Ridge Former Secretary of Homeland Security; former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, The White House; former Governor of Pennsylvania Nicholas Rostow Former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, The White House Kori Schake Former Director for Defense Strategy, National Security Council, The White House Kristen Silverberg Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Stephen Slick Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council, The White House Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations, National Security Council, The White House; former Ambassador and Senior Advisor for Women’s Empowerment, Department of State William H. Taft IV Former Deputy Secretary of Defense; former Ambassador to NATO Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy Attorney General William Tobey Former Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; former Director for CounterProliferation Strategy, National Security Council, The White House John Veroneau Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Kenneth Wainstein Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, The White House; former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice Matthew Waxman Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; former Director for Contingency Planning and International Justice, National Security Council, The White House Dov Zakheim Former Under Secretary of Defense Roger Zakheim Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Philip Zelikow Former Counselor of the Department of State Robert Zoellick Former U.S. Trade Representative; former Deputy Secretary of State