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Playing to the Edge

American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Feb 22, 2016
General Hayden, a four-star royal screwup and from his Wiki file: On January 23, 2006, Hayden participated in a news conference.[23] A YouTube video[24] was posted of Michael Hayden telling reporters at a press conference that "probable cause" is not required for all searches or seizures under the Fourth Amendment, claiming instead that the standard is whether the search or seizure is reasonable. "Probable cause" is required for all warrants whether or not the search or seizure is deemed to be "unreasonable." Hayden referred to people who believed that torture of CIA detainees has never yielded useful intelligence as "interrogation deniers".[ [Update 1/23/2017: An excellent article in the NY Times Review of Books thoroughly debunking that CIA/Trump report, a most disturbing piece, which again makes one wonder why the CIA is still in business???] [Update - - 3/15/16: A month or so ago, Hayden claimed that the military would probably revolt if Donald Trump were elected president, and the other day a survey of the US military revealed that they overwhelmingly favor Trump for president. Once again, as on 9/11 and before and after, Michael Hayden remains completely clueless and bereft of any information!] [At a CIA station in Afghanistan, a supposed double agent - - a Sunni extremist whom the CIA stooges thought they could turn {???} gets through the outer security because the CIA agents refuse to follow basic security protocols, and he blows them all to kingdom come! A CIA section decides to send a geriatric, diabetic retired FBI money laundering expert to Iran, where he's immediately captured? Next, they pay his family $2 million to keep quiet, and they immediately go to the news?] Lordy, lordy, lordy, the dude who was in charge when 9/11 went down, says we shouldn't criticize, then he was in charge when a number of other smaller incidents went down [Underwear bomber, Times Square bomber, et cetera - - think he was gone when that Boston Marathon bombing took place?] and he says we shouldn't criticize - - so just what was he doing all that time with all those billions? During his tenure, lots of money disappeared - - but where to? ? ? Never had an audit of the CIA - - NSA - - DIA - - Fed - - about high time, I'm sure a whole bunch of thieves would be uncovered! I mean, just think about recent events for a moment: a Sunni food safety inspector in San Bernardino, flies to Saudi Arabia for an arranged marriage to a pharmocology graduate and Sunni extremist from Pakistan, and nobody's checking this stuff out? ? ? ? Sunni food safey inspector and Sunni pharmacology grad? And we now know that Alfreda Bukowski Silverstein - - at the CIA, was involved with everything from start to finish - - a true cluster screwup of epic proportions, yet nobody has yet been fired! [FYI: We know from the after-action congressional reports that the NSA - - under Hayden - - did indeed follow the hijackers, along with the CIA, up to that time they boarded those five airliners that day. Best book on the events of 9/11/01 Touching History, by Lynn Spencer.]