President Trump returns the salute of a Marine honor guard as he disembarks from Marine One upon arrival at the White House. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)While much of the rest of the country was settling in for the Super Bowl on Sunday night, a group of senior Obama administration officials was putting the finishing touches on an unprecedented legal brief charging President Trump with endangering national security. Signed by former president Barack Obama’s national security adviser, his top counterterrorism aide and his secretary of state, as well as other senior security officials from the past three administrations, the brief was filed in support of Friday’s federal court ruling that froze Trump’s executive order on immigration. Most of the participants are former Obama officials, but they include some diplomatic, military, White House and Cabinet-level officials from the administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. “My purpose [in signing] was pretty narrow,” Michael V. Hayden, who served as Bush’s National Security Agency head and CIA director, said in an email.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2017 00:04 UTC