Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency (Greenwald)

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10. Another Bush guy, very credible all these Bush guys. Just so we know who Gen. Hayden

is before jumping for joy over his endorsement of these 'new measures':

Gen. Michael Hayden

Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is a former director of the both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). Currently a principal at the Chertoff Group, a business consultancy established by former Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff[1], Hayden is a well known conservative pundit who has supported many of the controversial "war on terror" policies initially put in place by President George W. Bush.

During his tenure in top intelligence posts, Hayden presided over the initiation and expansion of several controversial government programs, including the warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens' phone calls[2] and the use of armed drones overseas.[3] Since leaving office, Hayden has insisted that the wiretapping program was "effective, appropriate, and lawful."[4] A federal judge, however, subsequently ruled that the program likely violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was enacted by Congress "specifically to rein in and create a judicial check for executive-branch abuses of surveillance authority."[5]

A little more on this General and Staunch Republican as he is often described:

Stephen Hadley's tendency to play loose with the facts while a top official in Bush’s National Security Council has not stymied his professional career. In January 2014, the United States Institute for Peace named Hadley chairman of its board of directors. He is also a principal at the “international strategic consultancy firm” Hadley Rice Gates LLC, whose other executives include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Just the kind of guy we all loved during the Bush era!

Sometimes Dems are better off without endorsements on Bush policies from the very people who helped put them in place.

So that's TWO Bush loyalists, both of whom are 'loose with the truth'.

Well, that settles it, if THEY are happy, we should be happy, no?