CIA relies on a partner’s focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner benefits from CIA’s resources, technology, and global view. Michael Hayden Read Quote
I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but Iraq and Syria are gone, and they aren’t coming back, at least not as centralized states. Michael Hayden Read Quote
Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security. Michael Hayden Read Quote
Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments. Michael Hayden Read Quote
In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places. Michael Hayden Read Quote
MEMRI counts the federal government as a customer for its analysis, and the MEMRI logo is often visible on the B-roll video of major news networks. Other private firms create their own information rather than tracking that of others. Michael Hayden Read Quote
Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic. Michael Hayden Read Quote
Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials. Michael Hayden Read Quote
Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘USA Freedom Act,’ designed to rein in the allegedly renegade NSA and its wanton depredations of American privacy. Michael Hayden Read Quote
