Former Bush CIA Director: Trump Executive Order 'Inarguably Has Made Us Less Safe'
Source:
Mediaite
National security experts, including the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President George W. Bush, criticized Donald Trump‘s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim countries as damaging to the security of the United States.
“We’ve got good people who will work hard at it, but there is no question that this has already created an irretrievable cost,” Michael Hayden
told The Washington Post Sunday.
The executive order, he said, has “inarguably has made us less safe. It has taken draconian measures against a threat that was hyped. The byproduct is it feeds the Islamic militant narrative and makes it harder for our allies to side with us.”
Hayden did not support Trump during the 2016 election and has leveled similar charges before. “The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world so when Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative… he’s feeding their recruitment video,” he said last May.
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Merkel 'explains' refugee convention to Trump in phone call
German chancellor speaks to president amid international anger over US ban on people from seven Muslim countries
Merkel 'explained' convention to Trump in phone call


Donald Trump speaks to Angela Merkel on the phone in the Oval Office on Saturday. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Sam Jones and
Philip Oltermann
Sunday 29 January 2017 11.45 EST Last modified on Monday 30 January 2017 08.59 EST
Donald Trump’s
executive order to halt travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia – has provoked a wave of concern and condemnation from international leaders and politicians.
A spokesman for
Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trump’s decision to ban citizens of certain countries from entering the US, adding that
she had “explained” the obligations of the refugee convention to the new president in a phone call on Saturday.