DEFCON Warning System: Jeremy Bash served under U.S. President Obama as well as for a number of Democrats. The opinions he expresses may be influenced by partisanship.

President Donald Trump’s recent appointments to his legal team and administration were described as the formation of a “war cabinet” with the intent of not only taking on the special counsel’s office but also North Korea and Iran, according to a former top Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency official Friday morning. Jeremy Bash, who respectively…