Trump Travel Ban Makes America Less Safe: Ex-Top Security, State Officials
by ANDREA MITCHELL and RICHIE DUCHON
Ten former senior U.S. diplomats and security officials have filed an affidavit in a federal appeals court arguing that President Donald Trump's executive order curtailing immigration would actually make America less safe.
In a brief scheduled to be filed at 3 a.m. the officials slammed Trump's order as "ill-conceived, poorly implemented and ill-explained."
The brief obtained by NBC News was written jointly by four former heads of the CIA, two former Secretaries of State, a former Secretary of Defense, a former Secretary of Homeland Security, and senior officials of the National Security Council.
"This order cannot be justified on national security or foreign policy grounds. It does not perform its declared task of 'protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.'" the co-authors — Madeliene Albright, Avril Haines, Michael Hayden, John Kerry, John McLaughlin, Lisa Monaco, Michael Morell, Janet Napolitano, Susan Rice and Leon Panetta — wrote in the filing. The list was largely made up of prominent Democrats.
The former officials urged the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals not to reinstate Trump's entry ban while they decide whether the president has the legal or Constitutional authority to issue the sweeping order.
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