(Former CIA Dir) Hayden: CIA assassination program 'would be valuable'

[sabra]

Source: WTOP

WASHINGTON - The ability to kill dangerous terrorists through a CIA assassination program other than missile strikes would be of value to the United States, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells WTOP.

"Without confirming or denying what the nature of the program is, the fact that three different directors over the course of seven years returned to the issue, I think you'd have to say, 'Yes, it was valuable,'" Hayden says.

As new details about the program emerge, there are still more questions than answers. One of those questions is whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to keep quiet about the program.

"I was never directed by the vice president, as some have alleged about this program, not to brief this or frankly anything else to Congress. If Congress feels that we should have told them more about this program, my only response would be that this program didn't meet a threshold for me to even brief inside the Executive Branch," Hayden says.

Read more: http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1752195&nid=778

[liberal N proud]

1. Statements like that make the United States less safe

Valuable? :wtf:

[DCKit]

14. 'Cause BushCo*, as a whole, did so much for national security.

I'd trade two Saddams and one Al Qaeda to have those eight years back.

[GodlessBiker]

2. So, he was killing people and not telling the White House?

[Soylent Brice]

3. what.the.fuck.

[No Elephants]

6. +1

:wtf:

:wtf:

[Soylent Brice]

8. yeah, let me correct that. what i meant to say was:

:argh::argh::argh::argh:

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. what threshold was that? Autonomy or what?

[pattmarty]

5. I remember at the time this prick was confirmed by the Senate.............

.........all the press and Senate were saying how reasonable this motherfucker was. My belief is that "these" people from the Bush Administration should never work again in the US, period. Not at McDonalds, cleaning shitters, giving blowjobs, nada, nothing. What they should be is in fucking jail, but fat chance for that.

[No Elephants]

7. Didn't Congress enact some law or another about the CIA and briefings to Congress?

Decisions by the CIA to murder folks doesn't fall within that law?

Sumpfin sounds mighty wrong.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. The CIA division of the Bush Crime Family IS the world's largest terrorist organization

and the parent company of "Al Qaeda" (whatever "Al Qaeda" actually is. And it ain't what the Bush Crime Family and the whore media told you it is)

[WinkyDink]

13. Without doubt. Bushco no more "governed" than did my Aunt Fanny. THEY LOOTED.

[notadmblnd]

10. Was Hayden head if the CIA all eight years?

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[benld74]

12. Cue the Mission Impossible Theme,,,,

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[lsewpershad]

15. Hideous Hayden

is now telling us it is OK to murder in our name. What if a terrorist decide to murder Hayden I guess that would be OK as he would have a right to protect himself. If this ever happens would we invade the country from which the terrorist hails regardless of how many innocent people are killed in the process?

[gratuitous]

16. Oh sure, no potential for mischief here

Shorter Hayden: "Nobody had to tell me to keep my yap shut to Congress; I knew I was breaking the law." And if some nosy parkers in Congress "feel" they should have been briefed, they can go suck a lemon for all Mr. Hayden cares - he wasn't even talking to people in the White House (who didn't evince a whole lot of curiosity about what was going on in our name with our tax dollars).

But hey, if you all don't mind paying the price for all this CIA clandestine skullduggery, why should we investigate any of this? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! And Mr. Hayden is here to tell you what truth the American people can and cannot handle. And if we sustain another terrorist attack due to these secret shenanigans, then we'll hare off for another round of military adventurism, which will be a great financial boon to our good friends in the defense industries. Isn't representative government a wonder?

[aquart]

17. I want the list of names. Who did we kill. Who will we kill?

[Piewhacket]

18. Great Idea Hayden.! We'd sure have solved a lot of national security problems...

if some CIA operative had simply taken you out back
and shot you in 2002.

Would have been good for the nation,
and frankly.. just jake with me.
Hey.

[tanyev]

19. That puts Hayden in agreement with most dictators and terrorists.

They also think assassination programs are valuable.

[soryang]

20. Mr. Dragnet Surveillance pops off again

As NSA director he initiated eavesdropping on all electronic communcations at ATT hubs but publicly demonstrated he didn't know the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Probably gets his legal advice from David Addington.