50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’

New york times ^ | 8/8/2016 | DAVID E. SANGER and MAGGIE HABERMAN

[darkness78]

Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”

[djpg]

What is the point of having a political party if its members won’t even support its own presidential candidate? If the party is going to abandon Trump, he should abandon it. He should argue that he is beholden to no political party, Republican or Democrat.

Note: I voted against Trump in my state’s primary, but I accept the results of the nomination process.

[Russ]

This is like an instant relay of the Reagan campaign, He was called "dangerous", "inexperienced in foreign affairs", "trigger happy" and any other name they could think of to scare the American electorate. He was also facing opposition from the liberal wing of the GOP and was down double digits in the polls in August 1980.

I know then isn't now but there are glaring similarities.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Cheap Labor Express stooges trying to keep it running

[RC one]

but storing classified information on private unsecured servers doesn’t suggest a mindset that would put our nation at risk. Right. Got it.

[PghBaldy]

Seddique Mateen agrees!

[Fresh Wind]

But a number said in recent interviews that they changed their minds once they heard Mr. Trump invite Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s email server...

I understand now. Russia won't hack our servers unless we invite them to. I feel much safer now. /s

[txrefugee]

So these “experts” think our nation’s security isn’t “at risk” now? Then why are we standing in line at airports getting searched for the past 15 years? If they don’t know that we are at risk now, no wonder the jihadis can murder 14 Americans at a Christmas party in San Bernadino, CA and a woman in OK can be beheaded at work. These inept clowns should be ashamed to release campaign attacks after their abject failure in their job to keep Americans safe.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Republicans are your friends.

Lol "brand name". What brand name?

[Gaffer]

From the PDF: “We will not vote for Trump.” [I will format later, but this PDF has joined my 1998 NYT Ad by 400 ‘consititutional scholars’ for Clinton - a BJ isn’t impeachable, and the National Review Against Trump issue. I keep these things forever.]

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 Counter-Proliferation 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

[RC one]

What is the point of having a political party if its members won’t even support its own presidential candidate?

like we have been saying all along, the uniparty is just fine with Hillary Clinton. That's why I was hoping Bernie Sanders would have won but the democrats were stuck on stupid it seems. We have no leverage over these schmucks now.

[knarf]

G.O.P. .... the buzzword for Democrat, these days.

[Liz]

Govt parasite, Michael Chertoff is making a bundle ..... after exiting DHS,
he went into business....his company supplies the body scanners at airports.

[ComputerGuy]

In a battle between ego and logic, ego will win most of the time.

[odawg]

“But a number said in recent interviews that they changed their minds once they heard Mr. Trump invite Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s email server”

Well, no, Trump did not invite Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s email server, because the server had been taken off line years previously.

These people know they are liars.

[rollo tomasi]

Their track record is nothing to write home about. The basic philosophy was “do everything we can to absolve Saudi Arabia from any blame”. Also, pour trillions in defeating semi-secular Ba’thists and goat herders in Afghanistan while massaging Pakistan (Islam in general) as much as possible. Result, the J.V. team most likely funded by Saudi and Pakistan. All these advisers failed at strengthening/protecting the United States/interests for the long-term.

[jmaroneps37]

As if we are not at risk and would be less so with a criminal in the White House being blackmailed.

[Jack Hammer]

Actually, it would put their jobs at risk, which scares the bejeezuz out of them.

[King Moonracer]

50 more pigs at the trough.

[Diogenesis]

Boycotts are very powerful, but one cannot boycott
agencies.

WHAT COMPANIES DO THESE TRAITORS REPRESENT???

IF FReepers knew the companies, and directed a boycott,
the globalists would know the fear of King George
3 months after the Tea Party (when the news arrived).

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Thanks buddy.

'John B. Bellinger III', imagine how how much he spends on a pair of dock shoes.