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born 1945 United States

Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden currently co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative.

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Insults rarely just fade away. Honor patiently awaits to be satisfied.

The Assault on Intelligence (2018)

Trumpism was a long time coming.

The Assault on Intelligence (2018)

We kill people based on metadata.

American intelligence professionals, through a process of self-selection and acculturation, much like their diplomatic counterparts, trend overwhelmingly internationalist. They view American involvement abroad as the natural order of things, and their life experience tells them that American disengagement rarely makes things better anywhere.

The Assault on Intelligence (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Hayden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.