How many former GOP officials have leaked...

[zanana]

I'm trying to come up with the number of former GOP officials or former members of the Bush administration who've come out to speak against his actions, at home and in Iraq. So far I've come up with
Richard Clarke
John O'Neill
Scott Ritter
Wesley Clark?

[patricia92243]

1. Wes Clark part of Bush Admin??

[liberalnurse]

2. He was at least in the parade.......

[jbfam4]

3. Paul O'Neil, David Kay

hummmm when will Randy Beers (?) come up with info?

[BlueEyedSon]

4. John DiIulio

He coined the phrase "Mayberry Machiavellis".....

On October 24, John DiIulio, a former high-level official in the Bush administration, sent the letter below to Esquire Washington correspondent Ron Suskind. The letter was a key source of Suskind's story about Karl Rove, politics and policymaking in the Bush administration, "Why Are These Men Laughing," which appears in the January 2003 issue of Esquire. On Monday, December 3, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said that the charges contained in the story were "groundless and baseless." After initially standing by his assertions, DiIulio himself later issued an "apology." Esquire stands strongly behind Suskind and his important story.


Link: http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/021202_mfe_diiulio_1.html

[WoodrowFan]

5. Not Clark, but WIlson

I don't think Clark fits in there, but don't forget Joseph Wilson.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. First US official to resign: J Brady Kiesling, political counselor/Greece

What follows is a letter of resignation written by John Brady Kiesling, a member of Bush's Foreign Service Corps and Political Counselor to the American embassy in Greece. Kiesling has been a diplomat for twenty years, a civil servant to four Presidents. The letter below, delivered to Secretary of State Colin Powell, is quite possibly the most eloquent statement of dissent thus far put forth regarding the issue of Iraq. The New York Times story which reports on this remarkable event can be found after Kiesling's letter.

ATHENS | Thursday 27 February 2003

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effective March 7. I do so with a heavy heart. The baggage of my upbringing included a felt obligation to give something back to my country. Service as a U.S. diplomat was a dream job. I was paid to understand foreign languages and cultures, to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholars and journalists, and to persuade them that U.S. interests and theirs fundamentally coincided. My faith in my country and its values was the most powerful weapon in my diplomatic arsenal.

It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is, and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human nature. But until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer.

The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America�s most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security.

Link: http://truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=61