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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: Navy Patriot

Actually, you have wasted 40 years of taxpayer money.


41 posted on 11/27/2017 7:13:25 AM PST by kempster
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To: Navy Patriot
who is also a former director of the National Surveillance Agency

'Nuff said.

42 posted on 11/27/2017 7:13:39 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Navy Patriot

I guess Obama going after the Supreme Court during the state of the union address was great for the separation of powers, eh general?


43 posted on 11/27/2017 7:13:43 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Navy Patriot
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
44 posted on 11/27/2017 7:14:46 AM PST by cyberaxe (....Uuuummpphhhh.....)
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To: caseinpoint

It’s one thing to discuss CNN in the abstract, but if that general or anyone else watches that channel for even 1 hour their level of bias and irrationality becomes frightening. They do not deserve defending.


45 posted on 11/27/2017 7:14:49 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: robroys woman
Am I a bad person for thinking this is funny?

No, the CIA/Deep Swamp/CNN/DemoRat strategy is to get their enemies to laugh themselves to death.

Really.

46 posted on 11/27/2017 7:16:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot
Retired general...

Misdirection in the title to give this an air of respectability. If they had simply said "ex-CIA Hayden continues his attack on Trump" the immediate reaction would be, can't this yammering fool give it a rest.

47 posted on 11/27/2017 7:16:19 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Navy Patriot

“...the former spy chief, who now works as a national security analyst for the broadcaster, said in a Twitter post.”

So he is on CNN’s payroll. Isn’t this what is called singing for your supper?


48 posted on 11/27/2017 7:16:42 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Navy Patriot
I have wasted 40 years of my life

Yes, you could have been flipping burgers, or cleaning toilets (either of which is more honorable than being a CNN RATagandist)...

But there's still time!

49 posted on 11/27/2017 7:16:47 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Mark17

General officers never legally retire. They are placed on the retired list but are subject to recall to active duty at any time.

Like in active duty as defendant at a general court-martial!!?


50 posted on 11/27/2017 7:17:07 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Navy Patriot

Noted: Nothing about CNN’s outrageous attack on Trump.


51 posted on 11/27/2017 7:18:04 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Navy Patriot

I wish people actually retired. And STHU.


52 posted on 11/27/2017 7:18:26 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Navy Patriot
General Hayden added: "Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth..."

Oh, I see. So Hayden was OK with obummer dissing FOX news?

53 posted on 11/27/2017 7:19:17 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Navy Patriot
Hayden . . . Your 40 years was a waste of taxpayers money. Where the hell were you when Obama and his administration went after Fox News? You piece of bovine scatology

This from the New York Times October 11, 2009, Obama communications director speaking of Fox News

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

In mid-September, when the White House booked Mr. Obama on a round robin of Sunday morning talk shows, it skipped Fox and called it an “ideological outlet,”

That was just the beginning. It got far worse, you flaming piece of . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html

54 posted on 11/27/2017 7:20:05 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: Navy Patriot

The utter stupidity boggles the mind.


55 posted on 11/27/2017 7:21:40 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The CIA has always recruited mainly from Yale and Harvard and is run by Yale and Harvard grads. What more need be said?


56 posted on 11/27/2017 7:22:20 AM PST by arthurus
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To: Navy Patriot
“If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life,” the former spy chief said....

Yes, you did. FORTY years of your life are for naught.

Stew in the futility of your life.

Cry for me.

57 posted on 11/27/2017 7:22:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Navy Patriot

No, you wasted 40 years of taxpayer money and became an enemy of the Republic in the process.


58 posted on 11/27/2017 7:23:47 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Deep state, one-world order guy.

Spied on Americans while terrorists ran amok.


59 posted on 11/27/2017 7:24:35 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Mark17
I am not positive, but I think that even though the dude is a retired General, he needs to watch his mouth. I think he is still subject to the UCMJ ...

Technically, any retired US Military Officer may be recalled to service and subjected to the UCMJ.

60 posted on 11/27/2017 7:25:28 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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