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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
Former Republican CIA, FBI heads and national security officials to back Biden

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Reuters
21 August, 2020, 09:20 am
Last modified: 21 August, 2020, 09:25 am

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Former Republican CIA, FBI heads and national security officials to back Biden

Their full-throated condemnation of Trump and backing of Biden will come three days before Trump’s nominating convention opens on Monday

Reuters
21 August, 2020, 09:20 am
Last modified: 21 August, 2020, 09:25 am
US Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is joined on stage by her running-mate, US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, after she accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination during an acceptance speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, US, August 19, 2020. Photo:Reuters
US Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is joined on stage by her running-mate, US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, after she accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination during an acceptance speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, US, August 19, 2020. Photo:Reuters

Over 70 former Republican national security officials including ex-CIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday while launching a scathing indictment of President Donald Trump, calling him corrupt and unfit to serve.

The group, called Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden, includes some of the most senior Republican members of the US defense and intelligence establishment to have served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump.

The 73-strong group includes retired General Michael Hayden, who served as national security director and head of the CIA; William Webster, the only man to serve as both head of the CIA and FBI; John Negroponte, the first director of National Intelligence; Michael Leiter, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Mike Donley, former Air Force secretary.

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Their full-throated condemnation of Trump and backing of Biden will come three days before Trump's nominating convention opens on Monday and underscores how the Republican president has alienated some members of his own party, especially among intelligence and foreign policy veterans.

"Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president," the group plans to declare in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

"We have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States," it adds.

Biden to lay out vision for post-Trump America as he accepts Democratic nomination

The group is one of a number of Republican organizations opposing Trump's re-election in the Nov. 3 election.

Collectively, they object to his alienation of US allies abroad and his leadership at home, most recently his response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 170,000 Americans and triggered a severe economic downturn, as well as his reaction to nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality against Black Americans.

The Trump campaign has described Republican-led groups campaigning for Biden, such as Republican Voters Against Trump and 43 Alumni for Biden - hundreds of officials who worked for George W. Bush - as "the swamp," disaffected former officials "trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States."

Trump himself has expressed contempt, saying on Twitter last year that such "Never Trump Republicans" are "human scum."

'GLOBAL CHAOS'
Bob Tuttle, who was director of personnel under Reagan and ambassador to the UK under George W. Bush, is a member of the national security group and said Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis had been "abominable."

"He's a malignant narcissist. He's a liar. He's a despicable human being and the worst president in American history - it's not even close," Tuttle told Reuters.

Another group member, James Glassman, an undersecretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, said Trump had created "global chaos."

"Lack of leadership has led to the deaths of 170,000 Americans," Glassman said. "There's no excuse in the country with the best health scientists in the world."

The group lays out a detailed charge sheet against Trump, including accusations that he is unfit to lead in a national crisis, undermined confidence in US elections, aligned himself with dictators, preached a "dark and pessimistic view of America" and attacked and vilified immigrants.

The national security group will launch a website on Friday and come under the umbrella of another anti-Trump organization run by Republicans, Defending Democracy Together. The former national security officials raised $140,000 among themselves to launch their effort.

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