Who's the whiniest little spook in Washington?
by digby
None other than Michael Hayden who's been caught lying repeatedly to congress, to the press and probably everyone he's ever met:
“I mean what are they doing—trying to score my public speeches? What’s that about? You want me to go out and score Ron Wyden’s speeches?"
Poor baby. People are bringing up all those times he lied to congress. It's darned unfair. Wyden's former spokesperson solemnly replied:
1. That's really fucking offensive given that all of Ron's statements are directed towards informing the American people and exposing the [intelligence community’s] attempts to mislead, while Hayden's all about the lying/misleading.
2 - While I'm no longer Ron's official spokesperson, I think I speak for everyone on team Wyden, when I say "Go the fuck ahead."
She added that she hoped this would result in nobody "ever believing a word that comes out of that man's mouth."
That is unlikely. This is now officially a partisan he said/she said and half the nation will end up believing every word he said. And even more depressing, those same people will undoubtedly believe the disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who went on TV today and accused the Democratic Senators on the Intelligence Committee of making up the lurid accounts of torture in the report.
Let's not forget Michael Hayden's resume:
20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency In office May 30, 2006 – February 12, 2009 President George W. Bush Barack Obama Preceded by Porter J. Goss Succeeded by Leon Panetta
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence In office 2005–2006 President George W. Bush Preceded by New Office Succeeded by Donald Kerr
15th Director of the National Security Agency In office 1999–2005 President Bill Clinton George W. Bush Preceded by Kenneth Minihan Succeeded by Keith B. Alexander
He is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. . .
Update: Hayden was on with Blitzer this afternoon and said that "rectal feeding" was a perfectly reasonable way of "getting nutrition" into someone. And he also said that he had no problem waterboarding Americans if they are responsible for killing innocent people.
I wonder how the military feels about that?
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