CIA Director Hayden Warns of New al-Qaida Attacks

[seemslikeadream]

Is anyone else reporting this? Has it been posted here already? Do they just want to frighten NewsMax readers?


http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/cia_hayden_warning/2007/09/07/30766.html?s=al&promo_code=39AB-

CIA Director Hayden Warns of New al-Qaida Attacks

Friday, September 7, 2007 1:01 PM

Author: Stewart Stogel

In a rare public address CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden warned of new attacks by al Qaeda. (Getty)
NEW YORK -- In a rare public address CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden warned of new attacks by al-Qaida:


"Our analysts assess with high confidence that al-Qaida's central leadership is planning high-impact plots against the U.S. homeland."

Hayden's unusual public address was made at his request at the Council of Foreign Relations.

The newly minted CIA chief also took the unusual step of making his appearance in military uniform, though as CIA director he is not on active military assignment.

Hayden's address appears to be part of a coordinated White House public relations campaign leading up to the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks next week.

Hayden also told the Council that:

"Al-Qaida has protected or regenerated key elements of its homeland attack capability. That means safe haven in tribal areas of Pakistan, operational lieutenants, and a top leadership engaged in planning ... al-Qaida's success in planting operatives in this country, is less certain."

The CIA director warned:

"We assess, with high confidence that al-Qaida is focusing on targets that would produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant aftershocks."

Details on these warnings were not given, though the general was pressed for them by the audience.



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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. What's the punchline gonna be?

"We have solid evidence that Al Quaida is receiving material and organizational support for these plans from Iran".

Just you wait and see.

[ellaydubya]

2. In his uniform?!?!?!?!

I find this whole post very unsettling. These folks scare the hell out of me. I only hope I am being too sensitive or paranoid, but, on the other hand, I always expect a turn of events that will be really scary. I hope I am wrong.....

[seemslikeadream]

3. If you're scared just get one of those things they selling

[daninthemoon]

4. and.............qeue the cia director............action

[Jesse Hemingway]

5. Hayden you F$KKKING dumb ass

Your job is to stop them. Da

[VP505]

6. Nice to see

Hayden reminding us that we will be attacked here if we don't stay there for as long as the "decider" has decided we need to. Just in time for the "big" report from the General written by the White House I might add.

[Syrinx]

7. this is on C-SPAN right now. n/t

[lonestarnot]

22. MSNBC this a.m.

[Skip Intro]

8. Its becoming camp

really, I mean, over the top, jumped the shark, rocky horror camp


how do you change the channel?

[Syrinx]

9. please tell me I misunderstood what he said.

This civilian leader in a military uniform. I thought I just heard him say "We have to wonder if our Constitutional state is capable of waging this fight."

[seemslikeadream]

11. I'm trying to listen it's all so very weird

he is really weird

is he talking about censorship of the media?

[seemslikeadream]

12. yes press censorship

[End Of The Road]

25. Press is already censored

But watch 'em turn off the internet!

[CGowen]

33. I couldn't find the quote by him; I only found one in Germany

Serious people in free societies are still grappling with how best to address the fight against terrorists in a way that is both effective in protecting our people and consistent with our liberal democratic principles and traditions. The exchange of ideas between our societies is building a stronger consensus on the way forward.

It's not hard to see increasing signs of this cross-pollination--and of a growing realization that we all confront a distinctly new type of threat. Germany's interior minister, Wolfgang Schauble, recently cast the situation in these terms:

"The fact is that the old categories no longer apply...The fight
against international terrorism cannot be mastered by the classic
methods of the police...we have to clarify whether our constitutional
state is sufficient for confronting the new threats."
http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-defense/20070907/DC0261007092007-1.html

It wouldn't surprise, because legal scholars described him as a loyal Soprano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc60JmaLbE


and we know he had a funny constitution at the NSA

[Syrinx]

35. thanks!

I was reading the newspaper at the same time I was listening to Hayden. I didn't realize at the time that he was quoting someone else.

[DemGa]

10. This sounds ominous....nt

[seemslikeadream]

13. Hayden: CIA Had Fewer Than 100 Prisoners

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPMxKLv8VMTyTbkVgGpLC53w3lQg

He said media reports "cost us several promising counterterrorism and counterproliferation assets" because CIA sources stopped cooperating out of fear they would be exposed.

In one case, he said, news leaks gave a foreign government information that allowed it to prosecute and jail one of the CIA's sources.

[Jesse Hemingway]

15. Your buddies outed Valarie Plame

Larry Craig is waving at you.

[Kool Kitty]

14. I know this is supposed to be serious but

all I can think of is how much Hayden reminds me of Bunsen Honeydew, the mad scientist on "The Muppet Show". Beaker's boss, you know? (I really am losing my mind.)

[seemslikeadream]

17. He sounds like him too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrelL9fOjY

[Kool Kitty]

18. Yes, he does!

[tom_paine]

16. Wow, those Lying Bushies are pulling out all the stops

But maybe, they KNOW that the next 9/11 is coming because they are helping stage and execute it, only the Loyalest of Bushies on THAT TEAM, don'tcha' know, just like Pat Tillman's murderer, now likely twice promoted?

And wow, crazy, even NewsLax admits this is a lie that is just a part of a big PR campaign.

Rare of them to actually slip and print truth.

[daninthemoon]

23. So maybe even rove didn't have the stomach for the one about

to come?

[watrwefitinfor]

19. K&R to get this back in sight - it needs to be seen.

WTF are these people planning?

Wat

[seemslikeadream]

20. yea especially cause of this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1757405&mesg_id=1757405

[orleans]

40. that just really makes me want to puke

:puke:

nukes over america.
nukes over anywhere

HOW FUCKING CRAZY INSANE ARE WE GOING TO GET?

[spanone]

21. the fearmongers don't miss a beat when their CIC is in trouble

[Joanne98]

24. I was against the Hayden nomination. But the DEMS voted for him anyway.

We need to FIRE all of them.

[druidity33]

26. it really bothers me

That these RW sh*tbags keep using the f*cking word "HOMELAND". If people here take a moment to reflect on how the NAZIS garnered fear and political support, part of it was by promoting the aspect of the Aryan Homeland.

Just incredible. Pay attention to their rhetoric America! It's the new NAZI party and it's called Republicanism!

UUURRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

[daninthemoon]

27. you're either with us or against us. you DO want to be with us, now

don't you?

[snappyturtle]

28. And if you don't want to be with us, Halliburton/KBR is building

facilities to house you in! Stop and think about all of this: The presidential directives. executive orders, the patriot acts, loss of habeas corpus and posse comitas....up coming "exercises, Vigilant Shield 08, etc. Doesn't sound good does it? Then we get these little hints into future terrorists attacks.....????????

[daninthemoon]

31. "we didn't know about the camps" ...

[Celebration]

29. and this

During a question and answer session after the speech, General Hayden lamented that the Sept. 11 attacks have become a distant memory for too many Americans, giving rise to intense criticism of American counterterrorism efforts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/world/08hayden.html?hp


I hope they don't decide we need a firm reminder.

[daninthemoon]

30. it has already been decided

[Kool Kitty]

37. A "distant memory"?

Are you fuckin' kidding me? This bunch of bums mention it every chance they get. They'd link it to the price of toilet paper if they could. Christ Almighty-just listen to one of Giuliani's speeches. "Distant memory", my ass. And why is he wearing a uniform, if he is a civilian? Do they all like to play dress-up?

[noise]

38. Hayden

doesn't like the fact that Americans have a problem with the use of torture? The Geneva Conventions are now anti-American?

This lecture on too much free press, unfair criticism of torture and ungrateful, complacent citizens comes from a man who has not been honest about 9/11. He is dishonestly making the case that the CIA must use Saddam Hussein tactics in order to prevent terror attacks. Look at 9/11. The CIA IG report shows that Tenet failed to do his job. Bush, Rice and Pickard didn't do their jobs. Hayden didn't do his job.

Yet Congress approved Haydens promotions to DDNI and CIA Director. Bush gave Tenet a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rice got promoted to Secretary of State.

Terror attacks (like 9/11) could be prevented without trashing the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions if we had some above board officials in these important positions/offices. Instead we have corrupt officials who seem to think their oath to the Constitution means nothing.

[smoogatz]

32. And of course we've allowed al Qaeda to reconstitute itself in Pakistan

because Pakistan is a sovereign nation, and a staunch ally in the war on, uh--hey! Stop that snickering!

[mod mom]

34. How predictable-just in time to limit the Sept 15th march on DC.

[warren pease]

36. "...high-impact plots against the U.S. homeland."

Do these assholes actually talk like this off-mic? Must be fantastic dinner table conversationalists. "Please pass the reddish mashed vegetable food surrogate in the eight-inch-tall bottle with the white threaded cap."

Good god...


wp

[orleans]

39. well, if we do get attacked I GUESS THE FUCKHEAD ISN'T KEEPING

US ALL REAL SAFE AND COZY

and if we don't get attacked it doesn't mean that bush did shit to prevent it either.

[spindoctor]

41. *YAWN* Their assessments and analysis boil down to the same thing every year..

...and that is: September 11 is a good day for terrorism.

Maybe there is some truth to the thought that an attack on 9/11 will have more impact than on any given day, but the annual raising of the threat level is a lot like going to church only at Christmas.
It is safe to assume that if there is a terrorist potential, they would want to bomb us all year 'round and not just in September.

If this is the best the CIA can come up with (every year) then either they are as incompetent as they lead us to believe, or there simply isn't anything more exciting to report.

Of course the two options are not mutually exclusive.