Last Updated on September 26, 2024
Philip Zelikow, the man who directed the 9/11 Commission long accused of covering up the true story of the September 11th attacks, has endorsed Kamala Harris for President alongside more than 100 of his fellow deep state GOP’ers. In part, the group cited Harris’s support for the continued operation of America’s global war machine as a reason for their endorsement.
In 2002, Philip Zelikow, an academic and longtime associate of Bush Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, was appointed Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission formed by Congress with the backing of the George W. Bush Administration to “investigate” the September 11th attacks. At the time of the Commission, Zelikow’s perceived conflicts of interest (due to his association with Rice) were staunchly criticized and fuel was added to this fire when he was appointed Counselor of the U.S. State Department in 2005, just months after the 9/11 Commission concluded.
Zelikow’s ties to the U.S. State Department and the GOP establishment date back decades, having worked under the Reagan Administration and the H.W. Bush Administration as well.
Between and after his stints in the federal government, Zelikow has worked at Harvard and the University of Virginia, among others.
He’s remained involved in politics, however, especially when it comes to taking on the Trump campaign and the MAGA movement.
In 2020, Zelikow was one of over 130 Republican deep staters who signed onto a letter calling Donald Trump “unfit” to serve as President while endorsing Joe Biden.
Now, in 2024, he’s back.
Zelikow was one of more than 100 former Republican staffers and bureaucrats from the Reagan and Bush Administrations and the failed presidential campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, to endorse Kamala Harris in a letter released last Wednesday, September 18th.
Signees also included former Republican members of Congress, like Adam Kinzinger and it employed the same “unfit” terminology as the 2020 letter.
Among other things, the new letter praised Kamala Harris’s pro-war posturing and ardent support of the U.S.-funded NATO alliance and its activities in Ukraine.
Harris, the letter fawned, “Supported a strong NATO to stand up to Russia and protect European and American security and [has] been firm in her support of Ukraine.”
And the pro-war portions of the letter weren’t limited to Ukraine. It also mentioned that Harris has “declared her intention to ‘always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself’ and ‘to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists’.”
That issue has become all the more hot-button in recent days, as the Israeli war effort has pivoted to Lebanon and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Pentagon has predicted a “wider regional conflict” in the Middle East and the Biden-Harris Administration is deploying additional U.S. troops to the region, despite Harris’s debate stage claim that no American troops are there.
The letter also parrots Democrat campaign talking points on the “bipartisan Border Security package” that pro-Trump Republicans rejected in the legislature because it would manipulate the immigration and asylum systems to streamline millions more migrants from all over the world into the United States and provide amnesty for millions of illegal aliens who are already here.
However, in the letter, more than 100 signatories mimicked the Kamala Harris campaign as they claimed that Trump rejected the amnesty-offering “bipartisan Border Security package” “to avoid giving President Biden any political advantage.”
They also wrote that Kamala Harris has “committed to appoint a Republican to her cabinet.”
It’s unclear, however, if the signatories are hoping it will be one of them.
