Several members of the US National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) resigned en masse to protest Donald Trump's inattention to growing cyber-security threats and his despicable reaction to neo-nazi violence in an American college town.

"Your actions have threatened the security of the homeland I took an oath to protect," said an unsigned letter obtained by Nextgov (.pdf link) explaining several reasons for the resignation of eight members of the 28-member council.  Most security analysts acknowledge that the US is likely to suffer a cyberattack targeting infrastructure within the next two years, underlining the critical rile the NIAC would play in national security.

The experts condemned Trump and his administration of undermining the "moral infrastructure of the US" through Trump's remarks on Charlottesville which equated neo-nazi and racist hate group violence with counter-protesters. 

"When asked about the horrific violence in Charlottesville, you failed to denounce the intolerance and violence of hate groups, instead offering false equivalences and attacking the motives of the CEOs who had resigned from their advisory roles in protest," said the cyber-security experts' resignation letter.

Trump is a climate change denier, and the letter cites his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, his annihilation of well-thought out Obama-era flood-risk building standards, and ignoring the impact climate change will have on digital information infrastructure.

"Additionally, your decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, your intent to revoke flood-risk building standards, and your many other actions to ignore the pressing threat of climate change to our critical infrastructure also point to your disregard for the security of American communities," it read.

But the letter spent the most ink on accusing the Trump administration of "not demonstrated that (it) is adequately attentive to the pressing national security matters within the NIAC's purview, or responsive to sound advice received from experts and advisors on these matters".

The NIAC was established in 2001, drawing its members from the public and private sectors as well as academia.  Former US chief data scientist DJ Patil, Office of Science and Technology Policy chief of staff Cristin Dorgelo, and Christy Goldfuss, managing director of the Environmental Quality Council, all confirmed their resignations.