Gen. Michael Hayden Considered in The Lead for CIA Job!

[leftchick]

I just heard this from NBC news. Yes this asshat.....

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2808

Media Advisory

Probable Cause for Alarm
Press ignores Ex-NSA chief's ignorance of Constitution

1/27/06

When FEMA Director Michael Brown claimed not to be aware of the evacuee crisis at the New Orleans Convention Center following Hurricane Katrina (NPR, 9/1/05), many journalists expressed astonishment that a high-ranking official could be so uninformed about a crucial aspect of his job (e.g., Nightline, 9/1/05). But when Gen. Michael Hayden, principal deputy director of National Intelligence and former director of the National Security Agency, displayed an equally astounding lack of knowledge about a matter just as basic to his job, media as a whole let it pass without comment.

The subject in question was the constitutional protections the American public has against government spying--surely a vital thing to understand for the former head of the nation's top surveillance agency, and the person currently in charge of "overseeing the day-to-day activities of the national intelligence program," as his Air Force bio states. Those protections are specified in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which reads in full:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Surely it's not too much to ask that the officials who are entrusted with the ability to spy on virtually any electronic communication have an appreciation of how this amendment limits that ability. Yet in a question-and-answer session at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on January 23--before an audience consisting largely of journalists--Hayden repeatedly demonstrated that he does not know the basic language of this key part of the Bill of Rights.

[peacetalksforall]

1. You know I always believed that the CIA and FBI were Republican

operataions, growing in certainty over the years. Now, it's not only Republican, it's PNAC and the baron - totally in charge, because it looks like we are not going to get a CIA career guy.

I think McLauglin of the CIA should get the job.

Dick and Geroge have an opportunity to do right by the people, not by PNAC and the barons.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. McLaughlin resigned in 2004 just as Goss was taking over

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46580-2004Nov12.html