Our secrets are in good hands

President Bush says he relies on his, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a "nonpartisan body offering the President objective, expert advice on the conduct of U.S. foreign intelligence," according to the White House. Georgia10 at DailyKos (via Salon) put up the secret list of members in 2002 when Bush supposedly made the decision to authorize NSA surveillance.

• Brent Scowcroft: national security adviser to President Bush I. Scowcroft heads the Scowcroft Group which "sells intelligence and other services to globe-trotting corporations."
  
• Pete Wilson: former GOP Senator, Governor.
  
• Cresencio Arcos: AT&T executive and former US ambassador.
  
• Jim Barksdale: former head of Netscape.
  
• Robert Addison Day: chairman of the TWC Group, a money management firm, Bush Pioneer.
  
• William DeWitt: Ohio businessman, Bush Pioneer, top fund-raiser for Bush's 2004 Inaugural committee, former partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.
  
• Stephen Friedman: past chairman of Goldman Sachs.
  
• Alfred Lerner: chief executive of MBNA.
  
• Ray Lee Hunt: super-rich Texas oil man, Bush Pioneer, finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, Halliburton Board of Directors.
  
• Rita Hauser: "a prominent lawyer and longtime advocate of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation."
  
• David Jeremiah: retired admiral.
  
• Arnold Kanter: national security official under Bush I, founding member of the Scowcroft Group.
  
• James Calhoun Langdon, Jr.: "a power-lawyer in Texas," Bush Pioneer, Washington lobbyist.
  
• Elisabeth Pate-Cornell: head of industrial engineering and engineering management at Stanford University.
  
• John Harrison Streicker: a "real estate magnate."
  
• Philip Zelikow: National Security Council staffer during Bush I.

A few okay choices and then a whole bunch of political hacks. I happen to know Bill DeWitt, who, as far as I know, is a fine man, but he certainly isn't someone who is likely to have any great insights about state secrets. He just owns baseball teams. These people were given secrets about our national security that not even members of Congress were given!