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So after CIA Dir. Porter Goss resigned last Friday, and the Bush Admin had no replacement ready, it took them a couple of days to find the "best man" for the job, Gen Michael Hayden. A little history on the good General. Back when the National Security Agency domestic wiretapping story was leaked Gen Hayden had been in charge of the program and went to the Senate to testify. He was confronted about the 4th Amendment issue of protections against unreasonable search and seizures, and repeatedly and proudly proclained that the 4th amend. doesn't require a probable cause. One small problem is, it does. Try reading it for yourselves.
"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 particulary describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seaized."
Does anyone want a man who can't even read the US Constitution, but has sworn an oath to uphold it, in charge of the CIA? Remeber this guy will hold real power, and has no respect for our laws, by his own testimony. Thats like promoting an arsonist to be fire chief, or a forrest ranger.
He also has spent his career in technology intel, ie spy planes, satellites, wire taps; not human intelligence, which is the CIA's main job. Well I guess he wanted to preserve his record for most consecutive nominees who had no relevant experience for their job.
He also has now been linked to MZM, the defense contractor at the center of the Cunningham Wade bribery and hookergate scandal, that may have been the final straw for Porter Goss. It also has been revealed that Hayden is in Shotgun Dick Cheney's inner circle.
So why nominate such a loser? His nomination will trigger a 2 month long battle, that'll change the headlines and make Bush look strong, and smart. It won't improve the CIA, it won't make America safer, but that isn't Bush's job...
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Posted By: Phaedrus Posted on: May. 8, 2006 at 7:55 PM  5 Comments
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May. 8, 2006 at 09:53:29 PM
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| Is it true that Porter Goss is in line for the Medal of Honor?
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May. 8, 2006 at 10:13:52 PM
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| That would be the Congressional Medal of Freedom. It is cast from the original pieces of silver payed to Judas Iscariot. By today's standards, this isn't much. The real honors in this administration involve wheel barrels of unmarked U.S. dollars.
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May. 9, 2006 at 08:07:07 AM
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| No fasted, I don't think you understand the difference between the NSA wire tapping being a technology based intel gathering op, and what the CIA does which is the recruitment of human intel sources around the world, and then collating that into usable intel. Now, if your point is that by finding such a completely unqualified man for the job he's on a fast track for a CMoH then your point is well taken. And moron, because he is a member of the armed forces, he is eligible for the Cong. Medal of Honor and not just a freedom fries medal.
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May. 9, 2006 at 09:15:00 AM
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| Phaedrus, one thing we know is that Mike Hayden didn't just misinterpret the Fourth Amendment during his gig at the National Press Club - he sanctimoniously tried to correct a reporter who got it right. Here's the Fourth: "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." When a reporter properly characterized it, Hayden insisted, incorrectly, that the requirement for search and seizure was reasonableness, rather than probable cause: "Just to be very clear -- and believe me, if there's any amendment to the Constitution that employees of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it's the Fourth. And it is a reasonableness standard in the Fourth Amendment. And so what you've raised to me -- and I'm not a lawyer, and don't want to become one -- what you've raised to me is, in terms of quoting the Fourth Amendment, is an issue of the Constitution. The constitutional standard is 'reasonable.' And we believe -- I am convinced that we are lawful because what it is we're doing is reasonable." Well, maybe there is an issue here about human intelligence after all - not human vs. technological, but Mike’s and the president's… |
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You cite all the reasons why Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld chose Mike and present a superb summary - another nominee who has no relevant experience for the job.
Somewhere you do a 180, though. Where are you going wrong?
Mike has even more credentials than you realize. He INITIATED the NSA domestic eavesdropping program and, after his Senate testimony, he became a major attraction in the Bush-Cheney dog-and-pony extravaganza. He proved he get the term "national security" into a paragraph more times than anyone else on the circuit. Wore a clean, sharply pressed uniform every day, too. What a patriot!
Some cynics questioned where a lifetime professional spook got all those bright campaign ribbons, but the White House spin eas that they were all various GOOD CONDUCT medals of one sort or another.
That same crowd of skeptics shouted "Payoff!" when the dog-and-pony gig ended and Mike was appointed second in command to "Death Squad" Negroponte over at SuperSpy HQ, but no one listened. Come on, a general on the take? Get serious!
I read today that Mike even took on Rumsfeld once and that, if the confirmation hearings get rocky, Rummie is prepared to pull an LBJ - whip out out his shirttail and show the Senators the scar!
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