Jeb Bush taps 21 people who worked for his father or brother to advise him on foreign affairs [View all]

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Ed O'Keefe ‏@edatpost 6m6 minutes ago
@JebBush seeks to distinguish foreign policy views from his dad & brother. But his slate of advisers looks familiar: http://wapo.st/1CHj3lo

Bush is scheduled to speak at midday Wednesday before nearly 800 people at an event hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a nonpartisan think tank that is home to several veterans of previous presidential administrations...

"I recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs’— sometimes in contrast to theirs’," he will (say), according to prepared remarks provided by his aides in advance. "I love my father and my brother. I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make. But I am my own man — and my views are shaped by my own thinking and own experiences. Each president learns from those who came before — their principles … their adjustments. One thing we know is this: Every president inherits a changing world … and changing circumstances."

But as he prepares to launch a presidential campaign, Bush will be relying on at least 21 veteran foreign policy and diplomatic experts, including former secretaries of homeland security and state, former CIA directors and national security advisers.

The list includes two former secretaries of homeland security, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, who worked for George W. Bush; two former secretaries of state, James Baker and George Schultz, who served under George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan; two former CIA directors, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, who also served during the second Bush presidency; and former attorney general Michael Mukasey.

Others on the list include two former World Bank presidents, Robert Zoellick and Paul Wolfowitz. There's also John Negroponte, a former United Nations ambassador and the first director of national intelligence; Stephen Hadley, who was George W. Bush's national security adviser; and Meghan O'Sullivan, who worked with Hadley and Bush on the second Iraq war...


read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/02/18/jeb-bush-considers-himself-lucky-to-have-family-that-shaped-americas-foreign-policy-from-the-oval-office/

Serpentine202 ‏@Serpentine202 52m52 minutes ago
The Same People Who Lied To You About #Iraq Are Now In Charge Of #JebBush’s Foreign Policy http://thkpr.gs/3624114 #politics #p2 #tcot #ctl