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Retired general launches remarkable attack on Donald Trump: 'I have wasted 40 years of my life'
Yahoo Noose via Independent Fakery ^ | November 27, 2017 | Harriet Agerholm

Posted on 11/27/2017 6:56:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot

Donald Trump's attacks on broadcaster CNN are an "an outrageous assault" on freedom of speech, according to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Michael Hayden.

“If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life,” the former spy chief, who now works as a national security analyst for the broadcaster, said in a Twitter post.

General Hayden, who is also a former director of the National Surveillance Agency (NSA), added: "Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; boogedyboogedy; chertoffgroup; cnn; deep; freedomofspeech; genhayden; hayden; michaelchertoff; michaelhayden; nsa; swamp
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To: ctdonath2
CNN has freedom of speech. They may broadcast whatever drivel they like. POTUS has freedom of speech. He may criticize CNN however he likes. 1st Amendment is preserved, General

Apparently you know more than this over-promoted, deep-statist moron, Michael Hayden.

101 posted on 11/27/2017 8:30:51 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Navy Patriot

102 posted on 11/27/2017 8:32:39 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Russ
I just wasted 40 seconds of my life reading about him.

I would wager that you applied more critical though in your 40 seconds than this idiot swampster did in his 40 years.

103 posted on 11/27/2017 8:32:44 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: RFEngineer

“I have wasted 40 years of my life”

Well “general,” you’ve “created waste” in this country’s life for those 40 years. I just wished in hindsight that your father had been using a condom the night you were conceived. But then you are on a long list of “has been Marxist leaders” in this county on which I make the same wish.


104 posted on 11/27/2017 8:34:20 AM PST by vette6387
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To: RFEngineer

“I have wasted 40 years of my life”

Well “general,” you’ve “created waste” in this country’s life for those 40 years. I just wished in hindsight that your father had been using a condom the night you were conceived. But then you are on a long list of “has been Marxist leaders” in this county on which I make the same wish.


105 posted on 11/27/2017 8:34:25 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Navy Patriot
General Hayden, who is also a former director of the National Surveillance Agency (NSA), added: "Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."

You f***ing swamp creature! After putting up with that human garbage known as Barack Obama, you've got a lot of gall saying a D@mn thing about anyone else!

F*** you and the Horse you rode in on!

106 posted on 11/27/2017 8:35:28 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Navy Patriot

Thank God the asshat is no longer part of our government....


107 posted on 11/27/2017 8:36:52 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: kempster

“Are you kidding with that 1st Amendment crap?”

Hayden is complete unaware of a “Bill of Rights”. He knows nothing about them, not even their existence.


108 posted on 11/27/2017 8:37:30 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: deport

In his 40 years:

North Korea strengthens nuclear capacity
Iran strengthens nuclear capacity
China continues to strengthen as global military threat
Russia reconstitutes and invades Ukraine
Terrorist attacks increase globally
Trump tweets about CNN......Huh?

This never Trump clown has indeed failed the American people for 40 years.

No worry. He will soon be the guest of honor at all the wine, cheese, and globalism events in the appallingly decadent DC sewer.


109 posted on 11/27/2017 8:38:08 AM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Navy Patriot


110 posted on 11/27/2017 8:59:43 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Politics should have no place in the United States military, intelligence agencies or law enforcement. For those are the paths of tyranny.


111 posted on 11/27/2017 9:02:01 AM PST by fella ("As it wshas before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Dr. Pritchett

The irony about statements from people like him claiming that Trump is circumventing the first amendment is that in reality Trump became POTUS precisely because millions and millions of people were having their first amendment rights, and their rights to equal representation in government suppressed and trounced on by wealthy media magnates with an agenda - along with the same Hollywood elite now being outed as sexual aggressors and perverts. What average citizen had the ability to compete with their monopoly of the airwaves, print media, and entertainment industry? Trump is giving back voice to those who have had theirs taken from them. This guy has no idea what the first amendment really represents.


112 posted on 11/27/2017 9:09:49 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Navy Patriot
Another seditionist outs himself.

Can you imagine what kind of damage to our country this anti-American creep did during his career?

113 posted on 11/27/2017 9:10:11 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Navy Patriot

Where was this dip shit for the last 8 years. Do we need the list of attacks on Fox or reporters for Fox?


114 posted on 11/27/2017 9:13:30 AM PST by pas
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To: Navy Patriot

If Hayden is so despondent about his life, there are ways out. They aren’t hard.


115 posted on 11/27/2017 9:15:39 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Freedom is not free; Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free". Richard Berkeley Cotten)
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To: Chode

Good to see ya again, Chode, give my “special” regards to Six!


116 posted on 11/27/2017 9:17:29 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

CNN has told blatant, obvious lies repeatedly for decades. How anyone has failed to see this is astonishing.


117 posted on 11/27/2017 9:34:18 AM PST by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: MayflowerMadam
If Hayden is so despondent about his life, there are ways out. They aren’t hard.

Why would Hayden be despondent ...

He seems all smiles.

118 posted on 11/27/2017 9:35:00 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

This guy would have supported William Randolph Hearst and his empire. Guess: Where did term “yellow journalism” originate?


119 posted on 11/27/2017 9:53:22 AM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Navy Patriot

Gross.


120 posted on 11/27/2017 9:56:15 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Freedom is not free; Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free". Richard Berkeley Cotten)
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