On February 10, a group of 29 distinguished experts from TCP’s bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee and Task Force on Detainee Treatment issued a statement in response to a series of recent executive orders by President Donald Trump. The signatories, including former members of Congress, retired generals, former officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and the intelligence services, and other experts, wrote that the orders “threaten to harm fundamental constitutional rights, American values, and innocent people, without any evidence that they will benefit national security.”
The statement goes on to discuss more specific problems with:
The full statement and list of signatories is available here.