I have been told by several sources during Hayden�s tenure that he was well liked by Agency employees. But everyone also understood why he was there, to clean things up after the massive amount of leaking that caused the Bush administration a good deal of embarrassment.
The reality is our enemies know we tortured people. The world knows we tortured people. So our national security has already been harmed. Contrary to Mr. Hayden�s assertions, what the torture memos threaten is not national security. Rather, the memos threaten Hayden�s former boss and Hayden�s former employees with prosecution.
Here is what Hayden had to say on Fox News � the predictable outlet for defending Bush era criminal activity as somehow akin to national security interests:
"What we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al-Qaeda terrorist. That"s very valuable information," Hayden said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
"By taking [certain] techniques off the table, we have made it more difficult -- in a whole host of circumstances I can imagine -- for CIA officers to defend the nation," he said. LinkHere
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