Michael Hayden ........ ? [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

Is he a true believer/hyperpatriot in the mission of our intelligence service (kinda the same mindset as the former OSS guys who were the first leaders of the CIA) or a Right Wing Ideologue?

I don't know and can't even speculate. As an Air Force general, he's more likely to be one of the true believer types instead of a partisan ideologue. Was he anointed by Cheney to head the CIA because he was loyal or because he was competent or because he was ..... is ..... a true believer? Air Force (and particularly SAC) officers who went up the ladder during the Cold War tended to be of a type ..... the 'monastic warrior monk' prepared to unquestioningly drop nukes on the word of another.

Yeah, we all got (justifiably) pissed off at him when, as NSA head, he did all that electronic spying. But such activity is at least as likely to have been done by a true believer for whom the end justifies the means and a partisan ideologue most interested in employing knowledge in the consolidation of power.

The recent news about a CIA 'secrets dump' would seem to be the kind of thing a true believer would do in retaliation to a government that abused the intelligence service than it does an action of an ideologue.

Anyway .... what do you think?