HAYDEN WRONG ON IRAN AND ARMING ISRAEL

HAYDEN WRONG ON IRAN DEAL, TORTURE, 4th, ISRAEL

"We kill people based on metadata." Michael Hayden, Johns Hopkins Symposium, 1/4/14

Michael Hayden the "credibility challenged" former CIA chief was treated to a cushy seat in front of the American TV public on the popular MSNBC "Morning Joe" show this morning, on the eventful date of September 11, 2015. Joe and Mika took on the role of unnecessarily deferential hosts, asking no serious questions or referencing this guests past foibles and controversies, but quietly listened as Hayden spouted his opposition to the President's hard-won Iran Nuclear agreement. Hayden, a torture promoter, denier of Fourth Amendment Rights, and charged with lying to Congress, did as was expected, and took the opportunity to undermine the agreement, then painted what he hoped would be a fearful picture of conflict in the coming fifteen year life-span of the agreement. But what was most terrifying and egregious was his far out and dangerous proposal to provide Israel with MOP (massive ordinance penetrator) bombs which are capable of bunker busting into underground Iranian sites. These are the very sites Obama and the P5 fought so hard to place under inspection and which are planned to be emptied of nuclear enrichment equipment. Nothing would be more likely to abrogate the agreement, end Iranian cooperation, and encourage that nation to pursue a nuclear deterrent ( a la North Korea) than adding a new dimension to increase the Israeli threat to the region ( Israel is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons both on land and in submarines). Such a proposal would be a sure way to light the fuse for a new, wider and more disastrous war in the Middle East. After delivery, the USA would have a proverbial loaded sawed-off shotgun tied to its neck with Netanyahu's finger on the trigger. We might as well hand over the President's control keys to the nuclear red box and the decision as to when to turn they key, for a foreign leader like Netanyahu would then be able to decide when or where the U.S. would go to war. Hayden has carelessly stepped into another mantrap with this statement. The iron jaws have snapped tight about his legs. If his appearance on Morning Joe to try to burnish his post Iraq War tarnished image he has just failed miserably. His foolish statement supports the most radical elements in our nation and the dangerous and unpredictable Netanyahu cabal in charge in Tel Aviv. The Israeli hardliners would certainly use such weaponry as blackmail to achieve their real goal of relegating Iran to the economic Stone Age and dragging the USA into another ME war. How dumb can one get? Perhaps you have forgotten this man's past. Since Joe and Mika were so reticent to supply his past...see below.

Michael Hayden is the former director of the CIA and National Security Agency. You would think with those credentials his pronouncements on anything dealing with US security should be listened to with respect and confidence. You would be DEAD WRONG....and perhaps using the "death analogy" is correct in this case. Hayden whose chubby, almost cherubic looks, belie his professional and military life history, is the classic chicken hawk.

Hayden, is a retired Air Force General with four stars. He rose up in through ranks beginning his career as an ROTC Reserve Air Force officer in 1969. He served almost exclusively in the "intelligence arm" of the service as "arm chair" Air Force general all of his long 41 year career. All through those years he helped support efforts to send other young men, and the children of others, into the crucible of battle while never experiencing that life and limb threatening possibility himself.

Hayden was responsible for the massive expansion of illegal domestic spying after 9-11, the expansion of extra judicial assassinations by unmanned aerial drones. Under his leadership the NSA established the now infamous massive domestic spying network ( termed the "domestic telephone call database") illegally overriding statues forbidding warrentless surveillance...the FISA statues. He lied to Congress regarding these issues. He proposed and supported another enlarged electronics domestic spy network called the "Trailblazer Project" that was so intrusive his own staff resigned rather than comply. It was shut down after investigations by the DOD inspector general and deemed unconstitutional by Congress. As any school kid knows, the Nation's Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires PROBABLE CAUSE and a judges's warrant to proceed with the investigation. However, like the word TORTURE, which are not found in Hayden's vocabulary neither are the words PROBABLE CAUSE. Hayden has been video taped stating to reporters in a press conference that "probable cause" IS NOT in the FourthAmendment of the Bill of Rights. He was not truthful.

Hayden is a dedicated supporter of torture. He continues to deny the methods used by the CIA and described as "brutal and excessive" by Senate investigators should be described as "torture". Senator John McCain who experienced similar methods first hand disagreed with him. Hayden continues to claim, over the abundance of information and data to the contrary, that the use of torture gleaned from CIA detainees led to "actionable information". Senate investigators charged Hayden with" misrepresenting" the value of torture-derived information from CIA detainees. His veracity on that issue and others has been challenged over and over again.

Hayden's statements on the Iran Agreement and his proposal to arm Israel with MOP bombs will certainly not help him in his crusade to rewrite the negative view that history has recorded for this misguided man.