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Hail Hayden. Long Live The Chief Of Lies. ©

Betsy L Angert


Yesterday morning, during the Bush Bend-The-Truth radio address, our Commander in Chief sang the praises of General Michael V. Hayden.  Mr. Hayden is the Emperor’s choice for Director of Central Intelligence. Michael Hayden is known to have constructed and implemented the nation’s now infamous surveillance program.  

This plan or is it this man, is responsible for gathering information on tens of millions of us.  Thanks to General Hayden, trillions of telephone numbers have been collected.  These digit combinations belong to innocent Americans.  They are ours; yet, they are being held as potential weapons against us.  While we are told, this library is only a compilation of digits and nothing more, intellectually we know, that in this techno-savvy society, listening to these calls is possible.  

Initially, claims were made that this sweep would only affect those suspected of terrorism, people with links to al Queda.  Progressively we learned, Bush and his bandwagon think we are all associated with insurgents.  None of us can be trusted.  However, we are commanded to have blind-faith in those that have none in us.
Repeatedly and regularly, this administration has released erroneous details as they pertain to this “trolling.”  They ask us to understand as the particulars unfold.  They tell us the illegal is legal.  They swear their mission is to protect and defend the people of this nation.  They affirm that they have.  As proof they offer, America has not been attacked.  However, the logic of this escapes me.  

Are Bush and the boys equipped to predict.  They were not in the past and judging from the present, as I witness the war in Iraq, or watch Osama go free, I see no evidence that their crystal ball has cleared.  Still, Bush babbles on, “I want Congress to confirm this nomination.”  He asks the American people for their support.

The principle he applies to terrorism is applicable to Hayden as well.  Bush wants us to believe what he says of the General, even if evidence tells us otherwise.  As we learn more of this man, more of his doings [surveillance] and dealings [possibly paying off the telephone companies], we are expected to believe, to proceed with blind faith.  We are expected to follow our leader.  

Trust the untrustworthy, and surprisingly, I do.  I trust that Baby Bush is correct; the General knows how to spy, spin, and spew.  He has done it with the best of them and he will do it to the rest of us.  Actually, that is why I do not want this man as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

I do not feel safe or secure knowing that at the National Press Club in January 2006, General Michael Hayden, when asked of this surveillance initiative, he stated humbly,  “I’ve taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” and still he violated the same.  

I am not comforted when a person defends the Bush Constitution, which differs from the original text written for the United Sates of America.  Hayden, with his words and allegiance fortified what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program.  He withheld the fact that this plan has been in force for the last four years, or that this scheme involved more than radical insurgents.  General Hayden did not reveal that this system was scrutinizing the innocent, average Americans.

Hayden proudly continued, “I would never violate that Constitution, nor would I abuse the rights of the American people.”  “Never?”  Is that a synonym for “always?”  General Hayden I think lies, just as his president does.  He twists and turns the truth and that frightens me.  The language of our leader is a lexicon of convolution.  Judging from what we know today, five months after the Hayden speech, it is clear that Michael Hayden is also a master of manipulation.

Saturday, May 13, 2006, Bush proclaimed this manipulator is “supremely qualified” and in the kingdom of Bush, he is.  Hayden was and is “central” in gathering “intelligence.”  However, sadly, in this country, the meaning of the word “central” converts to radical and reactionary.  Intelligence signifies idiocy and inanity.  Typically, in the world of Bush, these closely correlate to immoral, unethical, and corrupt.

The General is all of these.  While he is considered amiable, jovial, personable, and pleasant, just as his Commandant is, he is sly.  He shares this quality with our likable lackey.  According to King George II . . .

In Mike Hayden, the men and women of the CIA will have a strong leader who will support them as they work to disrupt terrorist attacks, penetrate closed societies, and gain information that is vital to protecting our Nation.

General Hayden is supremely qualified to lead the CIA.  For the last year, he’s been our Nation’s first Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and has played a critical role in our efforts to reform America’s intelligence capabilities to meet the threats of a new century.  He has more than 20 years of experience in the intelligence field.

[Please remember what the world “intelligence means in the Bush universe.]

He served for six years as Director of the National Security Agency and has a track record of success in leading and transforming that large intelligence agency.  He also has held senior positions at the Pentagon and the National Security Council, and he served behind the Iron Curtain in our embassy in Bulgaria during the Cold War.

Mike knows our intelligence community from the ground up.

[The General works underground, in the subversive, secretive, cagey quarters of the Bush/Cheney Kingdom.]  

He’s been both a producer and a consumer of intelligence and has overseen both human and technical intelligence activities, as well as the all-source analysis derived from those activities.  The Senate unanimously confirmed Mike last year for his current post, and this week members of both parties have praised his nomination.

[That is, until they realized the breath and scope of the surveillance program he constructed.]

I urge the Senate to confirm him promptly as the next Director of the CIA.

During General Hayden’s tenure at the NSA, he helped establish and run one of our most vital intelligence efforts in the War on Terror — the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

. . . and that, my friends, is his greatest accomplishment.

Michael V. Hayden is a man that endeavors to establish a government that dishonors its people.  His actions are deceptive and divisive.  Hayden is, as is our chief; he is a man that lies with a smile.  He makes his own rules and rates them permissible.  He upholds the principles of the Constitution; however, these are not those presented in the document.  General Michael V. Hayden is not the man I want to lead an organization with power and money.  He is not the man for my America.  Is he the man for yours?

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