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The original "Club-51" as follows:

- Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN.

- Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit.

- Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary, now runs a public policy institute at Cal State University.

- John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

- Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University.

- Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank.

- John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

- Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University.

- Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems.

-  Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at Univ of NM.

- Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.

- Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director.

- Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director.

- John Moseman, former CIA chief of staff.

-  Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group.

- Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

- Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff.

- Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel.

- David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager.

- Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis.

- Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer.

- Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer.

- John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer.

- David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer.

- Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard.

- David Buckley, former CIA inspector general.

- Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute.

- Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer.

- James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office.

- David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst.

- Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer.

- Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer.

- Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst.

- Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer.

- Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer.

- Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer.

- Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer.

 - Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC.

- Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis.

- Ron Marks, former CIA officer.

- Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum.

- Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at Univ of NM.

- Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer.

- Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director.

- John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer.

- Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs.

- Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues.

- Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director.

- David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman.

- Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

- Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis.

Most relevant questions will be:

- Who remains on the list?

- Who will be added?

- Who has the cajones to become a whistleblower?

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