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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 10:20 AM
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9. Most of the civilian heads of the CIA
were either "politicians" or the "old, New England, aristocratic elite".

Hayden is a "blue collar" guy from a "shot and a beer" family (his father was a welder in "The Mill" and a member of the United Steel Workers of America), he grew up in a real, blue collar, shot and a beer, Joe Six Pack community (Pittsburgh PA), and went to a real operation bootstrap, working class college (Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost).

We came out of that same smokey valley, and I got my MBA at Duquesne, and my sister got her JD at Duquesne -- and we probably sat in the same bleachers at Forbes Field and grew up listening to Rege Cordic on the old KDKA.

He is no elitist John Bolten type.

His role in the wire tapping MUST be pursued.

But, compared to Bushie's Yalie buddies and his Texas buddies (you want John Cornyn? Alberto Gonzales?) - Hayden may be the lesser of the evils.

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