by Jack Davis September 12, 2016
James Woolsey, a Democrat who was America’s top spymaster in the Clinton administration, is so revolted by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal that he is supporting Republican Donald Trump.
Woolsey announced Monday that he will serve as one of Trump’s national security advisers.
“Since Secretary Clinton left the State Department, we have learned that she demonstrated a complete lack of understanding and an inability to lead the agency she headed in such a way as to maintain its mission and security,” said Woolsey, who led the CIA from 1993 to 1995.
“Based on the emails thus far released, we know that Secretary Clinton also lacks the ability to lead her senior managers while complying with and maintaining the basic protocols designed to protect our government’s sensitive and classified information,” he added.
Trump, he said, knows better.
“Mr. Trump understands the magnitude of the threats we face and is holding his cards close to the vest,” Woolsey said in his statement.
He also said that Trump will move America’s military in a prudent and proper direction.
“I have been a ‘Scoop Jackson,’ ‘Joe Lieberman’ Democrat all of my adult life, but I am pleased to be asked to participate with others I respect in advising GOP candidate Donald J. Trump on the urgent need to reinvest in and modernize our military in order to confront the challenges of the 21st century,” Woolsey said.
“Mr. Trump’s commitment to reversing the harmful defense budget cuts signed into law by the current administration, while acknowledging the need for debt reduction, is an essential step toward reinstating the United States’ primacy in the conventional and digital battlespace,” he added.
Woolsey recently went on CNN to explain why he endorsed Trump and will advice him.
“Trump has come out on two things that I think are important: first of all, he seems to be very much more so than his opponent in favor of a strong defense budget and we’ve got a lot of space to make up problems that have been left in defense by the Obama administration,” he said.
“The other is that he seems willing to keep a secret and not to blab everything to the public and to our opponents when he comes up with something about national security that ought to be kept quiet. I think that’s good. You can’t go yakking about everything that you’re interested in, you have to keep your counsel,” he said.
Woolsey has crossed party lines before. He endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain for president against Barack Obama in 2008 and was foreign policy adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during this year’s GOP primaries.
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