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For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
- Michael Hayden
#American
#Culture
#Evidence
#Reputation
A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama's short-lived 'surge' in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor's buildup there.
- Michael Hayden
#Afghanistan
#October
#Presence
#Surge
Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.
- Michael Hayden
#Authority
#Disobedience
#Law
#Moral
#Out
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
- Michael Hayden
#First Time
#Opportunity
#Our
#Time
#Way
I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.
- Michael Hayden
#Important
#Question
#Relationship
#Us
After the attacks on September 11th, we all learned lessons.
- Michael Hayden
#After
#Learned
#Lessons
#September
The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they let me stay on at school to get a Master's - I went to Denver for the Armed Forces Air Intelligence School, six months. Fundamentally, we had a major effort on in Southeast Asia, and this was training folks to support that effort.
- Michael Hayden
#Effort
#Intelligence
#Support
#Training
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
#Depth
#Focus
#Partner
#Technology
#View
NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.
- Michael Hayden
#Culture
#Lawyers
#Legal
#Morning
The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.
- Michael Hayden
#Against
#Did
#Us
#Use
#Work
At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular in its political culture. I know that is an oversimplification, but it is instructive, and it led to a growth in religious tolerance that has characterized the best of Western life since.
- Michael Hayden
#Best
#Culture
#Growth
#Life
#War
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
#Intelligence
#Order
#Secrets
#Together
What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.
- Michael Hayden
#American
#Did
#History
#Nation
#Secrets
George Tenet was actually a very strong centralizing force. If you met George by personality, George met with the president six days out of seven: nontrivial attribute inside the federal government. And George was head of the CIA.
- Michael Hayden
#CIA
#Days
#Government
#Head
#Personality
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
- Michael Hayden
#Energy
#New
#Safe
#Security
#Wisdom
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
- Michael Hayden
#Anger
#Genetic
#Help
#Preservation
#Self
American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.
- Michael Hayden
#Community
#Feel
#Intelligence
#Political
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.
- Michael Hayden
#Community
#Intelligence
#Responsibility
If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.
- Michael Hayden
#Future
#Intelligence
#Make
#Relationship
The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasonableness depends upon threat.
- Michael Hayden
#Against
#Constitution
#Search
#Us
In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.
- Michael Hayden
#Battle
#Day
#Great
#History
#Man
Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
- Michael Hayden
#Bumper
#Fit
#Longer
#Sticker
#Truth
The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.
- Michael Hayden
#Government
#Intelligence
#Legal
#Society
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
- Michael Hayden
#Day
#Fear
#Ideas
#New Day
#New
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