The list: 200 diplomats, spooks & others issue 'call to action' against domestic 'enemies'

More than 200 former diplomats, intelligence officials, military officers, and other senior officials has signed a "call to action" against President Trump, whom they call a "threat to democracy."

The signatories, who include former Carter national security adviser Anthony Lake and Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, warn of domestic enemies - aka President Trump and his team.

The letter is described as a collective effort, not tied to any organizations.

Some of the signatories are working behind the scenes to infiltrate loyalists into the State Department and other agencies. This list, which follows the letter below, provides a handy guide for vetting Trump appointees.

THE ASSAULT ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: A CALL TO ACTION

As American diplomats around the world and national security leaders here at home, we saw no greater cause than serving our fellow citizens. We swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Foreign and domestic. None of us thought the second part of that phrase would ever come into play -- until now.

American global leadership has depended on many factors, including political, economic, and military power. But most important was the moral foundation for that power -- America as an example to others. Though our actions didn’t always live up to our ideals, we stood for simple but powerful ideas that people everywhere embraced: democracy, equality, individual liberty, and human rights.

That moral foundation is now in grave danger. The challenge comes from within, as President Trump and his administration have assaulted the pillars of our democracy here at home and our strength around the world.

Internationally, Trump has questioned the value of long-standing alliances in Europe and Asia. On our borders, he has poisoned ties with our closest neighbors. He has undermined the bedrock principle of world peace that sovereign borders will be respected. The United States now seeks to lay claim to Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, greenlighting other countries to proceed as they see fit, most notably Russia in Ukraine. The global economic order that ushered in a period of unparalleled prosperity for Americans is being undermined by Trump’s senseless tariffs and war on legally binding trade agreements. America as the first responder to global humanitarian crises becomes a distant memory with the dismantling of USAID.

Domestically, Trump is aggressively eliminating constraints on his power and fomenting fear. He is intimidating independent media outlets with frivolous lawsuits. Our universities are retreating from freedom of speech because of explicit threats to withdraw federal monies. Our law firms are being bludgeoned into denying representation to anyone whom this administration does not like. Our medical research centers are seeing an exodus of experts forced out by an administration that does not believe in basic science. Congress and the Department of Justice threaten to impeach sitting judges that rule against the government. Federal trade unions have been shut down by executive order. State governments that challenge the administration face cuts in federal funding.

A racist, misogynistic and homophobic mindset is leading to the erasure of history and national heroes at our cultural institutions. In a country with a proud history of immigration, legal residents are being illegally deported for expressing an opinion. People are whisked off the street by masked officials in unmarked cars or sent off to imprisonment abroad without due process. Trump talks publicly about an unconstitutional third term without a word of concern from his own party.

American democracy and American security are inextricably linked; weaken one and the other inevitably begins to fail. As patriots and public servants from both parties who worked to protect America over many decades, we see that link unraveling at lightning speed. Many of us have served in countries where democratically elected leaders followed a path to autocracy, and we know this crisis requires an urgent and unified response. As a result, we call for the following:

--Former senior officials, including presidents, secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, and chiefs of staff of our military services must jointly and publicly challenge the administration’s dangerous policies and dismantling of essential institutions.

--Business leaders must condemn Trump’s disastrous trade policy which is plunging the global economy into chaos and disrupting supply chains that support millions of jobs.

--Medical institutions, like the CDC, NIH, and major research centers around the country must defend science with non-partisan funding of medical investigation and warn of the dangers of abandoning global engagement on pandemic prevention.

--Universities and media must protect free speech. Without a unified stance, they will be picked off one-by-one and first amendment rights for every American will be in peril.

--Our largest law firms must remain guardians of the rule of law by resisting administration pressure to undermine the legal system of checks and balances which is so fundamental to our democracy.

--Finally, politicians on both sides of the aisle who believe in the core values of our constitution must actively oppose the administration’s efforts to undermine our national security, our freedoms, and our democracy. Waiting passively for the electoral calendar to fight back does nothing more than give the administration additional time and running room to impose its authoritarian stamp ever more securely on government and on all of us.

No American should be silent. No American who cares about our freedoms, our institutions, and our identity as a nation can afford to be a bystander. Each of us in different walks of life must do what we can -- speak out, mobilize, defend our way of life. The moment requires nothing less. We must recognize the seriousness of what is taking place and act collectively to restore our democracy and our security. If we do not, the American ideals of liberty, prosperity, and equality will quickly become relics of the past.

Bernadette Allen, US Ambassador, retired

Rand Beers, Former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor

Mark Bellamy, US Ambassador, retired

John Beyrle, US Ambassador, retired

James Bishop, US Ambassador, retired

Charles Blaha, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Anne Bodine, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Avis Bohlen, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Michele Bond, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Paul L. Boyd, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Aurelia Brazeal, US Ambassador, retired

Sue Bremner, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Steven Browning, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

David Buckley, Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency

Susan F. Burk, Former Special Representative of the President

Peter Burleigh, US Ambassador, retired

Scott Busby, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Prudence Bushnell, US Ambassador, retired

John Butler, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, retired

Constance Carrino, Senior Foreign Service Officer, USAID, retired

Steven Cash, Former Senior Advisor, DHS

Former Chief Counsel to Senator Feinstein, Former CIA Officer

Asha Castleberry-Hernandez, Senior Executive Service, DOD, retired

Judith Chammas, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Phillip Chicola, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Roberta Cohen, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Ellen Conway, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Frances Cook, US Ambassador, retired

Sarah Cook, Senior Foreign Commercial Service Officer, retired

Thomas Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Ruth Davis, US Ambassador, retired; Former Director General of the US Foreign Service

David Davison, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Greg Delawie, US Ambassador, retired

Christopher Dell, US Ambassador, retired

Anne E. Derse, US Ambassador, retired

Vicki Divoll, Former General Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Mary Draper, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Melvin Dubee, Former Deputy Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Martha Duncan, Senior Executive Service, DOD, retired

William Eacho, Former Ambassador to Austria

William Eaton, US Ambassador, retired

Luigi Einaudi, US Ambassador, retired

Jonathan Elkind, Former Assistant Secretary of Energy

Nancy Ely-Raphel, US Ambassador, retired

Gregory Engle, US Ambassador, retired

Joseph Fallone, Captain, US Navy, retired

John Feeley, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Gerald Feierstein, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Jeffrey Feltman, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Mark Fitzpatrick, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, US Ambassador, retired

Mike Fitzpatrick, US Ambassador, retired

Karen Freeman, Senior Foreign Service Officer, USAID, retired

Bennett Freeman, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Susan Kosinski Fritz, Senior Foreign Service Officer, USAID, retired

Laurie Fulton, Former US Ambassador to Denmark

Julie Furuta-Toy, US Ambassador, retired

Rosemary Gallant, Senior Foreign Commercial Officer, retired

Melvin Gamble, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

William Garvelink, US Ambassador, retired

Brian Goldbeck, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Juan Gonzalez, Former Special Assistant to the President

Rose Gottemoeller, Former Undersecretary of State

Deborah Graze, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Eric Green, Former Special Assistant to the President

Jennifer Gregg, Senior Intelligence Officer, retired

Laura Griesmer, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Anne Gruner, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

Sheila Gwaltney, US Ambassador, retired

Brent Hartley, US Ambassador, retired

Patricia Haslach, US Ambassador, retired

William Haugh, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

John Heffern, US Ambassador, retired

Robert Herman, Former Policy Planning Staff, Department of State

Catherine Hill-Herndon, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Heather Hodges, US Ambassador, retired

Elizabeth Hopkins, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Sharon Houy, Former Chief of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency

Jeff Hovenier, US Ambassador, retired

Vicki Huddleston, US Ambassador, retired

Robert Hutchings, Former Chairman, National Intelligence Council

Charles Ikins, Colonel, US Marine Corps, retired

Robert Jackson, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

Susan Jacobs, US Ambassador, retired

Ali Jalili, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Oliver John, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Kathy Johnson, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Deborah Jones, US Ambassador, retired

Beth Jones, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

John Jones, US Ambassador, retired

Denis Kaufman, Senior Chief Petty Officer, US Navy, retired

Richard Kauzlarich, US Ambassador, retired; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Yvonne Keeler, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

Ian Kelly, US Ambassador, retired

Herbert Kemp, Colonel, US Air Force, retired

Laura Kennedy, US Ambassador, retired

Patrick Kennedy, US Ambassador, retired; Former Under Secretary of State

Donald Kerrick, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army, retired; Former Deputy National Security Advisor

Scott Kilner, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Harold Hongju Koh, Former Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Christopher Kojm, Former Chair, National Intelligence Council

James Kovar, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Thomas Krajeski, US Ambassador, retired

Anne Kremidas, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

James Kunder, Former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Daniel Kurtzer, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Anthony Lake, Former National Security Advisor

Eileen Laubacher, Rear Admiral, US Navy, retired

James Lawler, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

Suzan LeVine, Former US Ambassador to Switzerland

Dawn Liberi, US Ambassador, retired

Carmen Lomellin, US Ambassador, retired

Frank Loy, Former Under Secretary of State

Deborah Malac, US Ambassador, retired

Eileen Malloy, US Ambassador, retired; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary State

Angela Maloney, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Noah Mamet, Former US Ambassador to Argentina

Lawrence Mandel, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Steven Mann, US Ambassador, retired

Niels Marquardt, US Ambassador, retired

Dennise Mathieu, US Ambassador, retired

Deborah McCarthy, US Ambassador, retired

Bill McCulla, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Nancy McEldowney, US Ambassador, retired; Former National Security Advisor to the Vice President

Michael McFaul, Former US Ambassador to Russia

Elizabeth McKune, US Ambassador, retired

James Melville, Jr., US Ambassador, retired

Leo Michel, Senior Executive Service, DoD, retired

Thomas Miller, US Ambassador, retired

Derek Mitchell, Former US Ambassador to Burma (Myanmar)

Luis Moreno, US Ambassador, retired

Joseph Myers, Former Chief Risk Officer, US International Development Finance Corporation

James Nealon, US Ambassador, retired

Brian H. Nilsson, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Suzanne Nossel, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Joseph Nye, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Geoffrey Odlum, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Ted Osius, US Ambassador, retired

Maurice S, Parker, US Ambassador, retired

David Passage, US Ambassador, retired

Michael Pelletier, US Ambassador, retired

Robert Perry, US Ambassador, retired

David Petri, Commander, US Navy, retired

James Petti, US Ambassador, retired

Annie Pforzheimer, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Randal Phillips, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

William Piekney, Senior Intelligence Officer, CIA, retired

Steven Pifer, US Ambassador, retired

Michael Polt, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Michael Posner, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Ned Price, Former Spokesperson, Department of State

Charles Ray, US Ambassador, retired

Helen Reed-Rowe, US Ambassador, retired

Stacy Rhodes, Senior Foreign Service Officer, USAID, retired

Susan Rice, Former National Security Advisor; Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

John Ries, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Thomas Robertson, US Ambassador, retired

Enrique Roig, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Peter Romero, US Ambassador, retired; Former Assistant Secretary of State

Jeremy Rosner, Former Special Assistant to the President

Leslie Rowe, US Ambassador, retired

Eric Rubin, US Ambassador, retired; Former President, American Foreign Service Association

Richard Sanders, Senior Executive Service, DoD, retired

Janet Sanderson, US Ambassador, retired

Teresita Schaffer, US Ambassador, retired

Mark Schneider, Former Assistant Administrator, USAID; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Eric Schwartz, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Kyle Scott, US Ambassador, retired

Tod Sedgwick, Former US Ambassador the Slovak Republic

Michael Senko, US Ambassador, retired

Mattie Sharpless, US Ambassador, retired

Dana Shell Smith, US Ambassador, retired

Dilpreet Sidhu, Former Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

Emil Skodon, US Ambassador, retired

Adrian Snead, Former Counsel and Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Jeffrey Merkley

Sylvia Stanfield. US Ambassador, retired

Gregory Starr, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Adam Sterling, US Ambassador, retired

Clyde Taylor, US Ambassador, retired

Harry Thomas, US Ambassador, retired; Former Director General of the Foreign Service

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador, retired; Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Susan Thornton, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Thomas Tiernan, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Charles Uphaus, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Kurt van der Walde, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Alexander Vershbow, US Ambassador, retired; Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Shari Villarosa, US Ambassador, retired

Patricia Wagner, Senior Commercial Service Officer, retired

Alexander Watson, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Linda Watt, US Ambassador, retired

John Wecker, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Bruce Wharton, US Ambassador, retired

Kevin Whitaker, US Ambassador, retired

Pamela White, US Ambassador, retired

Stephanie Williams, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired; Former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General

Bisa William, US Ambassador, retired

Jonathan Winer, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

David Thomas Wolfson, Senior Foreign Service Officer, retired

Marcia Wong, Former Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID

Kenneth Yalowitz, US Ambassador, retired

Stephen Young, US Ambassador, retired

Marie Yovanovitch, US Ambassador, retired; Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Jane Zimmerman, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Ricardo Zuniga, Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State