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Hayden Confirmed as CIA Director

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Posted on May 26, 2006

History will surely boggle at this one: The architect of the NSA’s domestic spying program has been made the head of the CIA. And the vote was 78-15.

Washington Post:

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Gen. Michael V. Hayden as the new director of the CIA by a large bipartisan majority, sending a career intelligence professional to take over an agency roiled by internal turmoil and the departures of top managers.

The Senate voted 78-15 to confirm Hayden as President Bush’s choice to replace Porter J. Goss, who announced May 5 that he was stepping down after 20 months on the job.

Hayden, 61, an Air Force general, headed the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 before being tapped to serve as the top deputy to the new director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte. At the NSA, he presided over the launching of secret, warrantless eavesdropping and phone call-tracking programs that stirred intense controversy when they were disclosed in newspaper reports. Hayden and other Bush administration officials have defended the programs as vital for efforts to detect and defeat terrorist plots, but critics have charged that they violate Americans’ civil liberties and fly in the face of U.S. law governing domestic monitoring of communications.

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By C Quil, May 27, 2006 at 9:59 am #
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Could all these people be psychopaths?

Robert Hare, a psychiatrist who specializes in psychopathy, has just written a book called “Snakes in Suits”, which deals with corporate psychopathy.

The definition of psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a deep lack of conscience, empathy and compassion. The basic rules of human behavior don’t really apply to them.

Is it possible that a lot of psychopaths ended up in one place, covering up for each other? I don’t know whether they are capable of group behavior for a common “good”.

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By cognitorex, May 26, 2006 at 4:37 pm #
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FAILURE TO REIN IN BUSH ET AL IS APPEASEMENT

The NSA charter is for foreign intelligence gathering, quite specifically, foreign activities only. Debating minutia, such as, what, why and upon whom the NSA domestically eavesdropped or collected call records is legally irrelevant.

Each time Congress allows a Hayden, a George W et al insider, to break another law it is an act of appeasement. Appeasement emboldens this lawless junta and only serves to invite further corruption of thought and deed.

Consider Iran. If Congress and the Judiciary continue to collaborate by appeasing this geo-politically deficient and renegade cabal then we may well see that ominously forewarned nuclear “Mushroom Cloud,“ preemptively, dropped by us.

If so, no amount of wailing and mea culpas will atone for the millennia of misery and hate that will be this Congress’s legacy to untold generations.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are serious times. Rise. Your moment of accountability is here.
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