Charlie Rose - General Michael Hayden Part 2 / Jeffrey Toobin (October 23, 2007)
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Canadian researchers have found why a common chemotherapy drug results in hearing loss, which contributes to learning difficulties in some childhood cancer patients. British Columbia experts made progress in the development of a simple saliva or blood test that can foretell who is most likely to develop the problem. Michael Hayden, director of the Centre for Molecular [...]
we move to canada (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The US House of Representatives manages to pass some type of health care reform bill, but women can go to hell. Please note that 64 Democrats think this is peachy. The Stupak Amendment means that no funds coming out of the health care reform bill can be used for abortion. Since 1976 - got that? 1976! - the Hyde Amendment has prohibited federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. Look how many...
TaoSecurity (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I had the distinct privilege to attend a keynote by retired Air Force General Michael Hayden , most recently CIA director and previously NSA director. NetWitness brought Gen Hayden to its user conference this week, so I was really pleased to attend that event. I worked for Gen Hayden when he was commander of Air Intelligence Agency in the 1990s; I served in the information warfare planning division...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A damning verdict in an Italian court against America’s CIA NOBODY knows how many people have fallen victim to CIA-organised “extraordinary renditions”—operations in which suspected terrorists are snatched and shipped to third countries for interrogations that often involve torture. In 2007 the CIA director, Michael Hayden, suggested the figure was around 50. But a European...
Left In Lowell (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
On the previous incarnation of Michael Hayden’s official website for his campaign for Lowell tech school committee, Hayden pronounced that you could, for $2, get one of his bumper stickers on his signature issue. He even took credit cards! Is he maybe a tad ashamed of the material on his website? Or maybe he just ran [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
HERNDON, Va., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- NetWitness Corporation, announced today that retired United States Air Force four-star General Michael Hayden, former Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will keynote the first day of the Inaugural NetWitness User Conference. The November 4th keynote address will take place at 2:00 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan...
MSNBC.com: Newsweek World News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As one of President George W. Bush's top intelligence officials, Gen. Michael Hayden conceived the controversial warrantless-wiretapping program while head of the National Security Agency and then, in 2006, was sent to clean house at the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden spoke recently to NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his reign as America's top spy and its security challenges today. -Excerpts:
Left In Lowell (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I’ve been gathering my thoughts for some time about this post. But one thing is for sure - this is an anti-endorsement for Michael Hayden for Greater Lowell Tech. School Committee. I seriously recommend NOT ticking off his name come November 3rd. In fact, I beg you, do not let this man get reelected. For those [...]
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Michael Hayden is at it again. This time it is CNN that has donated the bandwidth to his continued petty whining about the release of the OLC Torture Memos. After acknowledging that the matter is over and now simply a matter of history, Hayden, in a “Special to CNN Comment” bearing today’s date, [...]
Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills) (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Eric Shinseki testified to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs today and we were there. I thought it would be impressive for the Secretary of a Department to testify. I'm not talking about Shinseki himself here, I'm just talking about the position. So imagine my surprise when Republican House Rep Steve Buyer (who I have had praise for before) repeatedly called Secretary Shineseki "General."...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
(updated below - Update II) Dianne Feinstein is a fairly typical Democratic Senator from a solidly blue state. In 2002, she voted to authorize the attack on Iraq. Throughout the Bush years, she repeatedly stood with the GOP to fund the war without the conditions and timetables sought by some of her fellow Democrats. Using her position on the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, she was the key Democrat...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Securing our networked environment is both crucial and difficult. Six months ago, President Obama declared his Administration’s commitment to protect cyberspace from sabotage of all stripes. For the President, the rise of online theft, electronic espionage, and military-related cyber assaults necessitated the appointment of a cyber czar to protect our cyber “national assets.” The...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Jill R. Aitoro writes on NextGov.com : The United States, in the wake of a widespread cyberattack, could face the same lack of coordination and preparedness the nation experienced after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because the government has not developed clear policies for how to respond, a panel of current and former federal security officials said on Monday. "In terms of terrorism response,...
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
By Melvin A. Goodman The Public Record , Sep 23, 2009 Last week, seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, who made their own contributions to the CIA’s low esteem over the past 35 years, asked President Barack Obama to make sure there is no criminal investigation of the crimes associated with the Agency’s detentions and interrogations policies over the past eight years....
Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
David Ignatius - Building a 'Citizen-Centric' CIA - washingtonpost.com :... "The question is how to put the pieces back together -- how to restore public trust in intelligence. I heard powerful presentations on that subject last Saturday in Geneva by Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director, and Sir David Omand, former coordinator of British intelligence. They were speaking at a meeting of the...
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