We Need to Stop Treating Michael Hayden as an Arbiter of Truth

    Michael Hayden. (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0)

Making the George W. Bush-era NSA chief and CIA director the go-to expert on the subject of Trump and his relationship to intelligence agencies is misguided; Harvard students are developing an anti-Trump “Resistance School”; meanwhile, more reasons why octopuses are “aliens living on earth” are found. These discoveries and more below.

Stop Treating Former CIA Chief Michael Hayden as an Arbiter of Truth On the subject of Donald Trump and his relationship with intelligence agencies, there’s one commentator you are bound to see quoted more than anyone else: Michael Hayden, the former NSA chief and CIA director under George W. Bush.

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