NATIONAL SECURITY

NATIONAL SECURITY

Open Letter to the President
#13 . . 3/28/2025

Mr. President,

I am a registered Republican from South Carolina. I appreciate your enthusiasm in appointing cabinet officials who have shown you loyalty in the past. It is valuable to be surrounded by loyal staff. However, I believe it is equally, if not more, important to be counseled and represented by appointees who are also competent and trustworthy.

The recent fiasco regarding security failures related to USA attacks on enemies raises serious questions about the competence and trustworthiness of senior personnel among your appointees. Their failure to recognize details of a planned destructive and deadly assault on enemies as information worthy of Secret or Top Secret classification and failure to take appropriate security precautions in communicating that information suggests that they are incompetent to hold the high offices and responsibilities that they do.

If, by some stretch of imagination, they were aware of the highly sensitive and classified nature of the attack plans and you were willing to allow them this one “slip up”, I believe that lying (by stating and in some cases swearing) that the information was not classified breaks the bond of trust that I assume has existed between you and them.

I, like many others, do not believe in their competence or trustworthiness and believe they should be replaced.