Posted on 07/11/2009 1:22:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance program was more far-reaching than imagined and was largely concealed from congressional overseers.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Hayden maintained that top members of Congress were kept well-informed all along the way, notwithstanding protests from some that they were kept in the dark.
"One of the points I had in every one of the briefings was to make sure they understood the scope of our activity 'They've got to know this is bigger than a bread box,' I said," said Hayden, who also previously headed the National Security Agency.
"At the political level this had support," said the one-time CIA chief, ...
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Hayden, who in 2001 designed and carried out the secret program, told The AP he is distressed by suggestions that Congress was not fully informed. He said that he personally briefed top lawmakers on the entire surveillance operation and said he felt that they supported it.
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Some people don’t take too kindly to being slandered. Most Republicans don’t mind, but some people do.
A good rule of thumb—tape record all conversations with thugs, criminals and other political types.
Have met and worked with Mike Hayden and he is an honest man. One of the best. Godspeed in dealing with the voracious partisan fools who make up our Congess, General.
Screw the GOP! I'm done with them, unless we can take that party back and purge the RINOs.
As for the General, he needs to slap the crap out the lying libs. (Of course, if he did, there'd nothing left but their shirt and shoes.)
The Rule or Ruin, Treasonous democrat party in all its ugly glory has willed for itself nothing but total destruction. They have brought the nation to the brink of revolution and it is all the more likely to occur with every passing hour. Civilization will spread westward away from our shores, our descendants will be meaner, poorer and fragmented in power and stability. The final vestiges of our Grand Nation will have died by villainy, corruption, greed and idiocy.
A good rule of thumb—tape record all conversations with thugs, criminals and other political types.
I agree! I would also make a copy of every incoming and outgoing letter. But wasn’t the taping what got Nixon in trouble, you know, Watergate?
Dear Michael.....your first mistake was to think they are SMART.
I love to hear someone speak out and correct the record. Unfortunately, the lame-stream media will not report this and the average voter will think that the poor, innocent Congress was lied to. Regardless, it is good to see someone stand up and speak the truth (although Palin has received a lot of criticism for doing so strangley enough).
IF the program was USELESS, then WHY the continued secrecy????
Could SOME reporter (a high-school stringer would do) ask this question of the Obama administration? Or is the the ENTIRE Press Corps dead?
And PeLIESi goes down in flames (please, please, please)
By the time the Congress gets through we wont have a CIA. At least not one that is worth a damn. Is that their true purpose?
Its strange that we get an Un-American President, and the Democrat party joins him in all he does to destroy this country.
What's strange about? Par for the course, I would say.
I hope he kept records and recordings. Unethical people in Congress will throw any Republican under the bus in a heartbeat, and are looking for information all the time in order to do this....
Asspress never mentions Pelosi in the story. Isn’t that amazing?
or it could just be ‘wag the donkey’
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is the the ENTIRE Press Corps dead?
close..
What the democrats are doing in this case proves once again that they are treacherous. Cheney was right to not trust them at all. Look where this story appeared. The democrat rag.
There was quite a bit of info available on the web....and there were plenty of folks who knew exactly what was going on. I forgot what I searched before but it sure told a lot. This drip, drip right now is a farce....
***The program included the wiretapping of American phone and computer lines and was intended to detect communications from the al-Qaida terrorist network.***
Correction: The program monitored phone and computer lines COMING IN from outside the U.S.A. and only from those foreigners suspected of terrorism.
***Several Democratic members of the House and Senate expressed surprise and concern Friday about the still-secret surveillance program.***
I guess they want another 9/11. The idiots.
It’s all about pulling Speaker Pelosi’s sorry ass out of the fire.
The only way we can afford to purge the party of RINOS is if we can replace them with real conservatives. That would be the ideal but to replace them with a RAT is unacceptable. We're better off with the RINO until we can defeat them in a primary.
Incremental improvement is better than regression any day.
I guess BO’s administration is in such trouble...the lefties are again making stuff up to take people’s eyes off the disaster. It won’t when Americans have lost jobs, can’t pay bills, can’t feed their families....wow...nothing can cover this up.........so back to Bush’s fault mantra ain’t goin’ to cut today..........HA
To deliberately lose and consider it winning is ridiculous but we have a fairly large element of Republicans who think this way. Not me. I'll be happy to use a RINO to get to where we need to be, if I have to.
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance program was more far-reaching than imagined and was largely concealed from congressional overseers... Hayden maintained that top members of Congress were kept well-informed all along the way, notwithstanding protests from some that they were kept in the dark.
*snicker* Your move, Nancy.
Some of our own Congress and other govt agency employees are intentionally or stupidly subversive and pose a real or potential threat of causing grave damage to US national security.
That's why the oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution says “against all enemies foreign and domestic”
If the democrats want to go down this road, let's hear names and reasons those not briefed- were not briefed..
A good military man (Hayden is among the best) knows how to CYA. But he is also a conscientious oath-upholding patriot and this can be used against him by the barbarians within our gates who have no such scruples.
Accusing the CIA of illegal activities and not informing congress--when did Leon Panetta and the Dem leadership become "the GOP?"
When the press wants to bash us...
Some FReepers sound like Dems when it comes to bashing the GOP...probably 3rd party wannabes who can't win a JP office.
Why bother? The guy meekly let himself be a punching bag for 8 years, why would he care now?
LOL, he even took the blame for a freak natural disaster!
Looks like Cheney is the target .. again..
at least all the sunday talk shows and the news media are after him .. and loads of misinformation as well. so what else is new? ;-)
keeping anything secret in DC is quite the accomplishment.
but a lot was riding on it too.
the Left at their best.. or is it their worst?
or just their most revealed for who and what they are.
they had to get back into power to show us all
how incompetent and agenda-driven they are and screw the costs.
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