51 Dangers to America

Here’s the list of people who shouldn’t have a job informing the public about anything or ever appear on cable news again:

1. Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN
2. Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit
3. Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary
4. John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
5. Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University
6. Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank
7. John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University
8. Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University
9. Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems
10. Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico
11. Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
12. Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director
13. Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director
14. John Moseman, former CIA chief of staf
15. Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group
16. Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
17. Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff
18. Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel
19. David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager
20. Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis
21. Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer
22. Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer
23. John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer
24. David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer
25. Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard
26. David Buckley, former CIA inspector general
27. Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
28. Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer
29. James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office
30. David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst
31. Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer
32. Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer
33. Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst
34. Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer
35. Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer:
36. Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer
37. Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer
38. Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC
39. Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis
40. Ron Marks, former CIA officer
41. Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum
42. Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico
43. Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer
44. Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director
45. John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer
46. Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs
47. Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues
48. Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director
49. David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman
50. Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
51. Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis

When asked for comment, some of them said they would need additional information to determine if the emails and laptop contents, now authenticated, were truly authnetic. Others said that it seemed plausible at the time that the laptop was Russian disinformation so they signed the letter. Still, others cling to their belief that the laptop and emails, though real, are still a Russian disinformation plot.