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Allum Bokhari: Meet Michael Hayden, Deep State Spy Chief Turned Media Blacklister
Real Clear Politics ^ | October 16, 2023 | Tim Hains

Posted on 10/18/2023 12:44:00 PM PDT by Twotone

ALLUM BOKHARI: Michael Hayden has been in the news lately after he called for Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville to be "removed from the human race," a comment the senator condemned as a call for assassination. This wasn't the first partisan outburst from Hayden. He's also compared Trump supporters to the Taliban, called the Trump movement "more dangerous than al Qaeda," and even said that unvaxxed MAGA supporters should be given a "one-way ticket to Afghanistan."

But who is Michael Hayden and why should we care? Hayden is currently an advisor to NewsGuard, an organization that claims to offer nonpartisan assessments on the trustworthiness of news outlets. More on them later.

First, let's take a look at the man who wants Americans to disappear for their political beliefs. This is a former four-star general who was at the pinnacle of the U.S. intelligence community. He served under three presidents, going from one top spy role to the next. He was director of the NSA under Clinton and Bush, at a time when its domestic surveillance of Americans went into overdrive. He was deputy director of national intelligence again under Bush, and he was director of the CIA under Bush and Obama.

Throughout this long career as a spy chief, Hayden was accused of brazenly lying to Congress and the American people about everything from the surveillance of Americans to torture programs in the war on terror. Before Hayden became a professional anti-MAGA pundit, the liberal media was happy to report on his long record of lies and half-truths.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allumbokhari; blacklister; cia; cnn; deepstate; michaelhayden; newsguard; nsa

1 posted on 10/18/2023 12:44:00 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

We have some truly evil people working at high levels in government with no accountability. I can’t imagine putting my life on the line with these creeps pulling the strings of war.


2 posted on 10/18/2023 12:45:57 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Twotone

SUPER WEIRD dude.


3 posted on 10/18/2023 12:47:03 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Twotone

When you make deception your primary means, things do not turn out well for you.

This was an IQ test for you, Michael Hayden.

There are two ways to live life:

1. striving to sacrifice your own needs for the benefit of others

2. striving to sacrifice the needs of others for your own benefit

When you live by the second way, then deceptiveness becomes necessary.


4 posted on 10/18/2023 12:50:57 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: LeonardFMason

He should have been thrown out or locked up long ago.


5 posted on 10/18/2023 12:53:33 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Twotone

dear michael hayden .....

“snaps fingers with pointer finger down”


6 posted on 10/18/2023 12:56:57 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Twotone

Apparently no followup from the capital police on the threat. The Senator is a Republican, in the underclass for legal protection.


7 posted on 10/18/2023 1:08:31 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: 1Old Pro
"We have some truly evil people working at high levels in government with no accountability"

Oh well that's nice. 🙄

8 posted on 10/18/2023 1:16:21 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist Amecrica )
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To: Twotone

He’s a deep state spook.


9 posted on 10/18/2023 1:16:52 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Twotone

When I was in the Air Force, I used to work for him.


10 posted on 10/18/2023 1:22:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: 1Old Pro

I am ashamed of this retired AF general whom I Once liked


11 posted on 10/18/2023 2:28:35 PM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: Alas Babylon!

What was he like?


12 posted on 10/18/2023 2:31:22 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Twotone
Hayden, one of our Best and Brightest who claimed Hunter Biden's Laptop from Hell was Russian Disinformation.

He is a disgrace.

13 posted on 10/18/2023 2:34:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

He was my commander, but I was on staff so saw him during meetings. He was pretty smart and sometimes witty. My boss direct reported to him. Hayden Kind of aloof but I was a Master Sergeant and he was a Colonel with a Star coming when he left.


14 posted on 10/18/2023 3:12:13 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I stand corrected. He was already a BRIG (in Germany when I was on staff). I remember he gave a briefing on bomb loads and the shrinking footprint of destruction over the years. Pretty interesting seeing how we went from just lobbing stuff hoping some would hit the target to 1 meter precision over continents.

He went on to become AFIC/AIA commander. I saw him once after that.

I can’t stand him now. He’s totally gone off the deep end as far as I can tell.


15 posted on 10/18/2023 3:19:00 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Thanks!


16 posted on 10/18/2023 3:25:39 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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