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The End of Intelligence
- acqq 8y agoWhy is this flagged? It is written by Michael Hayden who is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006 - 2009 while the president was G.W.Bush) and the National Security Agency (1999 - 2005 starting while the president was Clinton and continuing under G.W.Bush), surely somebody who's opinion is worth reading (and discussing!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden_(general) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden_(general) "a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden currently co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative" Moreover: "This essay was adapted from his forthcoming book, “The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies.”" This all of course doesn't mean that he should be idolized, or every his statement accepted uncritically. During his years the Iraq WMDs were falsely claimed out of thin air to exist only due to the wishful thinking of the leaders he served, which lead to the Iraq War, and he wasn't openly against that. Which is also relevant to know when reading this opinion of his, as well as the fact that he never admitted that. Even then more people with the spine were needed to save the US (and the world) from itself.