he led a seminar on Executive Branch decision-making, and taught a graduate course on intelligence theory and practice at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is currently an adjunct at National Park College in Hot Springs, Arkansas, teaching American national government and state and local government. In 2020, Ford, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him." Quotes Ford stated on CNN's documentary Dead Wrong: Inside an Intelligence Meltdown (2005) that the United States' intelligence departments "threw everything they had" into Colin Powell's speech talking about the prospects of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Carl Ford called John R. Bolton "Kiss-Up, Kick-Down Sort of Guy" on Democracy Now! April 13, 2005. See also CIA leak grand jury investigation Plame Affair References External links U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research PBS Frontline interview, January 10, 2006 Ex-State Dept. Intel Chief Calls Bolton “Kiss-Up, Kick-Down Sort of Guy” Democracy Now, April 13, 2005 Speeches Statement Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Washington, DC February 11, 2003 State Department Press Briefing April 7, 2005 April 21, 2005 1943 births Living people People from Hot Springs, Arkansas People from Washington, D.C. American political scientists United States Assistant Secretaries of State Arkansas Independents Florida State University alumni United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War United States Department of Defense officials Assistant Secretaries of State for Intelligence and Research United States Army soldiers