Washington Establishment Figure Michael Hayden Does His ‘Duty’… Slams Trump, Conservative Media
The Former CIA Director, who served in intelligence posts for presidents Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama, on Monday proclaimed from a very ‘high horse’ that the “Star Fleet” of the federal government…apparently that’s how he refers to the current intelligence establishment, is under attack by news and opinion outlets including the Russians, Breitbart, Sean Hannity, and any other of its critics who have “an illegitimate world view”.
Hayden is, however, ‘honest’ enough that he admits he knows nothing first hand to substantiate his scathing assessment, but he’s “heard others say…”.
No kidding, Michael??!!!
Let’s see…who would those “others” be? The New York Times? ‘Big Jim” Comey? Ben Rhodes? Maybe even straight from the ‘horse’s mouth’, Barack Obama?
Attention ‘Scotty’ at “Star Fleet”: Time to ‘beam’ Director Hayden up!
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Highlights from the former ‘Star Fleet commander’:
- Former CIA Director Michael Hayden on Monday criticized the pro-Donald Trump bloc of conservative media for advancing what he deemed to be an “illegitimate” world view.
- Hayden said, adding that it was “very troubling” the president seeming to value Breitbart reports over data compiled by intelligence agencies.
- The “Starfleet of the federal government”???
- “…I haven’t done this personally, but I’ve heard others say, when you dig into the Breitbart sources, the articles don’t really say that. Breitbart doesn’t do any creative journalism, it just moves the parts around,””
- “…an amazing consistency” … between the information disseminated by Russian outlets and conservative sources like the Drudge Report, radio and television host Sean Hannity, and Breitbart.”
- Hayden stopped short, however, of making a “moral judgment” on whether such outlets are intentionally misleading the public.
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