http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hayden/ en-us Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:01:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398885/posts Tom Hayden, the liberal activist best known for his work in the 60's, when he helped found Students for a Democratic Society, was once pretty enthusiastic about Barack Obama. Back in March of 2008 he had the first byline on an article in the Nation -- also attributed to Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover and Barbara Ehrenreich -- that began, "All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama." Now, though, after the president announced his decision to send an additional 30,00 troops to fight in Afghanistan, Hayden's had enough. His latest piece for the Nation begins with a very different... Salon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398885/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:01:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts Two big questions hang over President Obama's radical "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. Is he still a communist? Is he a security threat? Many have assumed that Van Jones' committment to communism ended when the organization he helped to lead STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) dissolved in 2002. Yet a 2004 treatise Reclaiming Revolution: History, Summation, and Lessons from the Work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement written and endorsed by a majority of former STORM members makes it clear that most ex STORMers are still committed to the revolutionary movement; From page 49. When... New Zeal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:11:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318626/posts Three former CIA directors have privately told their successor he had his facts wrong when he revealed an illegal assassination program, reports Joseph Finder, and his spies will suffer for it. according to a half-dozen sources, including several very senior, recently retired CIA officials, clandestine-service officers, and Cabinet-level officials from the Bush administration, the real story is at once more innocent—Panetta was mistaken; no law was broken—and far more troubling: an inexperienced CIA director, unfamiliar with how his vast, complicated agency works, unable to trust senior officials within his own agency, and desperate to keep his hands clean, screwed up.... daily beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318626/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:39:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999501/posts The death of Pol Pot, 23 years to the day after he and the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, occasioned long backward glances at one of the 20th century's most horrific genocides. It was noted everywhere that the communist reign of terror in Cambodia lasted nearly four years and that at least 1 million human beings -- by some estimates as many as 2 1/2 million -- were murdered in an orgy of executions, torture, and starvation. "In the name of a radical utopia," The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, "the Khmer Rouge regime had turned... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999501/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:01:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293175/posts The man who ran the CIA from 2006 through January says he wasn't told by then-vice president Dick Cheney not to brief Congress about a covert program aimed at members of al-Qaida, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports. Gen. Mike Hayden's statement is at odds with a New York Times report Sunday that said the CIA: Withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293175/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290552/posts 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,"... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290552/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:22:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247924/posts As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods, the White House fielded a flurry of last-minute appeals. One came from former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, who expressed disbelief that the administration was prepared to expose methods it might later decide it needed. "Are you telling me that under all conditions of threat, you will never interfere with the sleep cycle of a detainee?" Hayden asked a top White House official, according to sources familiar with the exchange. From the beginning, sleep deprivation had been one of the most important... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247924/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 09:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2234600/posts President Obama released legal memos revealing our interrogation methods of terrorists, essentially referring to the Bush years following 9/11 as a "dark and painful chapter in our history." Thus we found out that: Prisoners could be kept awake for more than a week. They could be stripped of their clothes, fed nothing but liquid and thrown against a wall 30 consecutive times. In one case, the CIA was told it could prey on one prisoner's fear of insects by stuffing him into a box with a bug. When all else failed, the CIA could turn to what a Justice Department... Start Thinking Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2234600/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233877/posts ...HAYDEN: I wasn't asked. We weren't asked. We were informed as a courtesy by the agency that this was a pending decision, and all of us self-initiated, voluntarily, to call the White House and express our views. I should add, too, that the current director, Director Panetta, shared our views. I mean, if you look — if you look at what this really comprises, if you look at the documents that have been made public, it says top secret at the top. The definition of top secret is information which, if revealed, would cause grave harm to U.S. security. And... FoxNewsSunday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233877/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2233759/posts WASHINGTON – Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees. "I acted primarily because of the exceptional circumstances that surrounded these memos, particularly the fact that so much of the information was public," Obama said. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2233759/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:30:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233274/posts President Obama made what a spokesman called a "weighty" decision last week. He released a Bush administration memo that lists and precisely describes the harsh interrogation techniques the CIA was allowed to use when questioning al-Qaida suspects. What could he possibly have been thinking? Although the President signed an executive order halting the use of these methods soon after he took office, he and his CIA director both acknowledged that the administration reserved the right to use them in the future should they be needed. Now, they cannot be used even if this or any future administration finds them necessary.... Manchester Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233274/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233297/posts Here is video of former CIA Director Michael Hayden yesterday on Fox News Sunday being very critical of President Obama for releasing CIA Memos that detail the "outer limits" of what the CIA will do in terms of interrogating prisoners. Hayden argues that is very dangerous, making it far more difficult for CIA Officers to defend the nation. He also believes Obama's decision has demoralized CIA employees, making them far less aggressive since they do not know whether or not their actions will be fodder as a political football in the future. It has left the Agency feeling that what... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233297/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232696/posts p>The Talk Shows Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former CIA Director Michael Hayden; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Denyce Graves, opera singer.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council; FreedomWorks chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas; Democratic Leadership Council chairman and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn.FACE THE NATION (CBS): David Axelrod, White House senior adviser; Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.THIS WEEK (ABC): White House chief of staff Rahm... Various driveby media television networks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232696/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232902/posts A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security. Former CIA chief Michael Hayden said Sunday it is wrong to make interrogation methods public. Michael Hayden, who served as former President Bush's last CIA director from 2006 to 2009, said releasing the memos outlining terror interrogation methods emboldened terrorist groups such as al Qaeda. "What we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al Qaeda... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232902/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231942/posts Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records. Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet and John Deutch all called the White House in March warning that release of the so-called "torture memos" would compromise intelligence operations, current and former officials say. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to detail internal government discussions. President Barack Obama ultimately overruled those concerns after internal discussions that intensified in the weeks after the former directors intervened. The... msnbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231942/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:39:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231641/posts The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession. The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly permitted by the director, and are described in these opinions in detail, along with their limits and the safeguards applied to them. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231641/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:28:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231804/posts The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession. By MICHAEL HAYDEN and MICHAEL B. MUKASEY The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly permitted by the director, and are described in these opinions in detail, along with their limits and the safeguards applied to them. The release of these opinions was unnecessary as a legal matter, and is... Wall St. Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231804/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231435/posts Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says release of the memos will give terrorists a precise guide for what to expect in a CIA interrogation if those methods are ever approved for use again. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing -- and authorizing -- such grim tactics as slamming detainees against walls, waterboarding them and keeping them naked and cold for long periods. Human rights groups and many Obama officials have condemned such methods as torture. Bush officials have vigorously... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231435/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:21:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231750/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amid calls for torture prosecutions, former Bush administration officials Friday slammed President Barack Obama's release of terror interrogation memos, warning the move would fuel "timidity and fear" among US spies. Unhappy with Obama's promise not to prosecute CIA officials, human rights groups have demanded criminal investigations of officials who approved or used the interrogation techniques chillingly detailed in the Justice Department memos. But in an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, former CIA director Michael Hayden and former attorney general Michael Mukasey charged that disclosure of the memos "was unnecessary as a legal matter, and is unsound... YahooNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231750/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:20:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223557/posts Quick, Make Like an AntApril 5, 2009 — Ants deserve a lot of respect, despite being a nuisance in the kitchen.  The very fact they are so effective at bugging us is a testament to their ingenuity in foraging, communicating and organizing themselves into successful colonies.  We might just gain some valuable knowledge by watching them more closely. Foraging: Live Science says that ants forage haphazardly, but there might be a method to their madness.  Anyone who has watched ant scouts on the kitchen sink knows they seem to go this way and that without a plan.  Why don’t they... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223557/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177082/posts SNIPPET: "Fox Correspondent Catherine Herridge interviewed CIA Director Mike Hayden on January 15, 2009. Below is the transcript of the interview." SNIPPET: "HERRIDGE: You said today that one of the greatest accomplishments was the number of days it had been since the attack [on the homeland]. Why do you consider that to be one of the most important accomplishments? HAYDEN: It has been ((word indistinct)) for the Agency since about mid-morning on September 11th. I’ve said this publicly before. One of the most operational offices, the one that really does things in the war on terror, you walk in and... CIA.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177082/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 01:38:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177013/posts Which two countries offer the greatest threat to the United States? If you answered that they both must be in the Middle East, you would be only half right. You would be amazed to learn, as I was, that the second greatest threat to America comes from this hemisphere – yes, right next door to us. Former CIA chief Michael Hayden told reporters in January of this year that Mexico could rank alongside Iran as a challenge for President Obama – perhaps a greater problem than Iraq. The U.S. Justice Department said last month that Mexican gangs are the "biggest... Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177013/posts#comment Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173991/posts LANGLEY, Va. -- Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden on Thursday vigorously defended the agency's use of secret prisons and coercive interrogation methods on suspected al Qaeda terrorists, saying they helped avert new terrorist attacks and were done "out of duty, not out of enthusiasm." Hayden argued that the CIA detainee program shouldn't be subjected to a public investigation because the administration had obtained Justice Department legal opinions to support it and had informed members of Congress. A public inquiry also would damage the careers of dedicated intelligence officers and the agency's espionage operations, he said. "We are asked to do... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173991/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:47:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166869/posts ABC News' Luis Martinez reports: CIA Director Michael Hayden offered a spirited defense of the agency's controversial detention and interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, which Attorney General nominee Eric Holder characterized today as "torture." Hayden said the techniques provided extremely useful information about al Qaeda and have led to repeated successes against the terror network. "You can't say it didn't work. It worked," Hayden said in a wide-ranging farewell interview with reporters at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Va. abcnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166869/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132386/posts Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists. General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected. President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132386/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:30:08 GMT