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The state of the Republican Party is so heinous that the former director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, perceives them as one of the most “nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible” political forces in play today. Hayden is a retired four-star general who...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 09:35 AM PDT
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From my Good News Roundup Annex today: The question of the day for me: how do we turn all of the insanity going on in Trumpism and the Rethugs into an election victory? I am thinking a lot about a four-part model for winning the election in 2022: 1) We...
by Mrmuni12
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on Wed Nov 10, 2021 at 08:46 AM PST
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There is a diary already up about Brennan’s screed today. The linked piece from yesterday’ Newsweek starts out with Michael Hayden, but also quotes Clapper and Brennan. It links Hayden’s book,
The Assault on Intelligence: American National...
by Mrmuni12
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on Fri Jun 01, 2018 at 05:36 PM PDT
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Michael Hayden, former head of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, had something to say about the Jade Helm military exercises in Texas a few years ago that had the conspiracy-minded worked into a lather. They were...
by AlanC
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on Thu May 03, 2018 at 12:52 PM PDT
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Just posted, Sunday night, at the LA Times:
Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy...
by Mother Mags
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on Sun Oct 23, 2016 at 10:43 PM PDT
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I know that I typically have been blogging about volunteering leading up to election day, BUT I would like to also emphasize something I thought was important, eventually I’ll start breaking down some down ballot MD races just so everyone knows what to...
by Suggestion For A New National Anthem
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on Thu Sep 15, 2016 at 03:03 PM PDT
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No one seems to be able to stay on topic these days. I’d clicked a link on a Twitter post about Trump and his nuclear hopes, only to read that the comments (surprise, surprise) were all about Hillary bad, Hillary did this / that.
Then I come view a...
by DemocratIAm
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on Wed Aug 03, 2016 at 08:30 PM PDT
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Retired U.S. General Michael Hayden, in the most grotesque of terms, expressed the desire for violence which underlies so much of the military establishment's push for war in the Middle East and ...
by David Harris Gershon
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on Fri Sep 12, 2014 at 09:08 AM PDT
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First I have to get this off my chest. I am pissed. If one more person tells me to or even implies that I should sit down and STFU I'm not likely to deal with them in a generous manner.
I feel ...
by Just Bob
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on Sat Aug 17, 2013 at 07:32 PM PDT
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I started to write a long reply to Vyan in his nice diary about all the safeguards against NSA abuse. It got too long and I thought it too important to see it buried. It was this part of his diary ...
by Dumbo
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on Sat Aug 10, 2013 at 09:37 PM PDT
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In one of the proudest moments in US History, the US Attorney has sent a letter to Russia, asking them to turn over Edward Snowden to the US. In the letter, Attorney General Eric Holder reassures ...
by Dumbo
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on Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 06:02 PM PDT
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Recent News Items:
In 2012, after WIRED reported widespread warrantless spying by the NSA on all US citizens, the NSA chief testified before congress denying that it occured.
In 2012, Obama ...
by agnostic
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on Thu Jul 04, 2013 at 01:33 PM PDT
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President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG has produced the only official and authoritative study ...
by Mel Goodman
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on Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 03:07 PM PDT
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Presently, there seems to be an attempt at obfuscation on the matter of waterboarding and it appears to becoming mainly from former Bush Administration officials.
As part of this obfuscatory ...
by vetforobama
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on Sun May 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM PDT
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Those who are complaining on tv against Obama release of memos asked Obama not to release memos
Jump...
by cherbear
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on Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 08:42 PM PDT
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I am surprised to here some rumors about it. Presidente-elect Obama is not , I am sure, even thinking on that egregious possibility. General Hayden is a man lacking basic integrity:
by RaulVB
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on Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 04:24 PM PST
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Now we know that the CIA committed [http://library.findlaw.com/1996/Nov/1/231209.html Spoliation of Evidence] by destroying torture "harsh interrogation" tapes. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...
by BenGoshi
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on Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 10:24 AM PST
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