Posted on 02/25/2019 10:38:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Fifty-eight former U.S. national security officials told the Trump administration in a letter on Monday that they are aware of "no emergency that remotely justifies" diverting funds to build a border wall.
The officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in the Clinton administration, and former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a Republican who served in the Senate and the Obama administration.
Others include Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and director of the CIA; Gil Kerlikowske, former head of Customs and Border Protection; John Kerry, former secretary of state; and Nick Rasmussen, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
The letter, according to its authors, is a declaration intended to be used in lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's Feb. 15 decision to redirect $8 billion in federal funds in order to begin construction of a barrier along the southern border. Trump's announcement fulfilled a campaign promise to build a wall to block illegal immigrants after Congress offered less than $2 billion in federal funds after months of negotiations.
The officials fact check Trump's basis for declaring a national emergency, pointing out that illegal border crossings are near 40-year lows, there is no documented terror threat, human and drug trafficking will not be affected by a border wall, and there is no violent crime threat posed by immigrants.
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Of course they didn’t think it wasn’t an emergency. That’s why they did nothing and let it fester.
Evidently, they didn’t see Korea as an emergency, or Iran, or China, or Russia, because again, they did nothing.
Just because lazy, blind bureaucrats do nothing does not mean there is nothing for them to have been doing.
Would be wisdom .... pure wisdom
It’s all talking points that are absolute BS parroted by the media and leftists alike.
In other words they will never disagree on anything because their responses are based on their leftist politics not facts.
People who have actively colluded to import millions of illegals into the country have no credibility. There’s a reason there’s only one President at a time and none of these people hold office. Many of them were only political appointees and have never even been up for the scrutiny of the voters. Those who have like Kerry, have been found wanting.
I guess that is why DJT did not ask them for their opinion.
The Republican Party is no difference from the Democratic Party. When in power they do nothing to accomplish stated goals from the campaign. They offer no resistance other than lip service and compromise when not in power. They are weak, liars, and quislings. Their only thoughts are keep the gravy train and parties going and how do I keep getting elected. Useless almost all of them.
May this dream be not a dream
Clown show.
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They are all fatter now but can still fit into the circus clown car and jauntily bounce out to denounce Trump.
How did they all “happen” to “coincidentally” feel an urge to undermine Trump on the emergency at the same time?
Like those leftist psychologists and psychiatrists who all said Trump was babbling incoherently and showed signs of total mental incapacity, was now unable to concentrate on conversations and had to be taken out by the cabinet under the 25th Amendment.
Later he was the only president to successfully get through the difficult process of meeting North Korea’s Kim and starting a compromise process never seen since the early 1950s.
And fend off traitors like Omarosa and Cohen , meet with foreign dignitaries, help draft and deliver a fine State of the Union speech,defy the leftist Congress and RINOS and navigate through intense infighting opposition no president ever faced except perhaps Lincoln.
Good reminder to strip security clearances from any of these fools who hung on to them...
Exactly, people's "opinions" are a dime a dozen.
These people make me sick, and I don’t care if 50,000 of them sign a letter.
They are too busy gathering signatures from their fellow democrats and deep state operatives.
Leon Panetta, John Kerry.... democrat scumbags. They ARE the national emergency.
I can’t think of a more ringing endorsement than to have these people against it.
“First, for me, Albright is like an anti-compass.”
Wait, Albright is not dead? How is that possible. She went to her HS prom with Ben Franklin.
Is this along the line of “900 scientists conclude global warming is real” spouted by Al Gore. Only they were political scientists?
So the Democrats can find 50 liberals and never Trumpers willing to criticize the president? Astonishing.
Using the term “experts” is very laughable especially when you include the likes of Albright, Hagel and Kerry.
He denies it.
Julia Ainsley (D-NBC)... Madeleine Albright... Chuck Hagel... Leon Panetta... John Kerry...
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