Ex-CIA Directors lobby government for hybrids, lighter vehicles

31 former national security officials are asking the Bush administration to support $1 billion in funding for developing fuel efficient vehicles. “This really constitutes a national security crisis in the making,” said letter signer Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, a thinktank, and a former Defense Department official under former President Reagan, according to Reuters. Other signers included Robert McFarlane, Reagan’s national security advisor, and James Woolsey, Central Intelligence Agency director under President Clinton.

The national security officials believe that for national security, the U.S. must move from gas guzzling SUVs to lighter vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

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