By Alex Isenstadt

House Republicans are expected to continue their offensive against the shutdown of Guantanamo Bay. But the latest GOP video — with terrorist mug shots and World Trade Center footage — has one former Bush administration official telling them to back off.

Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who worked for the Bush, Clinton and Reagan administrations, calls the video “disgraceful.”

“This video and the recent Republican attacks on Guantanamo are more desperate attempts from a demoralized party to politicize national security and the safety of the American people,” said Clarke, who now works with the left-leaning National Security Network. “But what is more disturbing is their brazen use of imagery and the memory of 9/11 to score political points.”

Senate and House Republicans have released a series of threatening videos over the past few weeks as they try to make the case that President Barack Obama’s plan to close down Guantanamo threatens national security. House Republicans also introduced legislation last week aiming to put a halt to Obama’s plan to transfer the detainees to U.S. prisons.