Ex-NSA head cheers for sending ‘unvaxxed MAGA’ Americans to Afghanistan, compares Trump supporters to Taliban
Wikipedia:
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.[4] In 2017, Hayden became a national security analyst for CNN.[5]
He was Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1999 to 2005. During his tenure as director, he oversaw the controversial NSA surveillance of technological communications between persons in the United States and alleged foreign terrorist groups, which resulted in the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy.
On April 21, 2005, then Lt. Gen Hayden, was confirmed by the United States Senate as the first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and awarded his fourth star-making him “the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces”.[6] He served in this position under DNI John Negroponte until May 26, 2006.
On May 8, 2006, Hayden was nominated for the position of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the resignation of Porter J. Goss, and on 23 May the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted 12–3 to send the nomination to the Senate floor. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on 26 May by a vote of 78–15. On May 30, 2006, and again the following day at the CIA lobby with President George W. Bush in attendance, Hayden was sworn in as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
On July 1, 2008, Hayden retired from the Air Force after over 41 years of service, and continued to serve as Director of the CIA until February 12, 2009.[7] He received an honorary doctorate from The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. in 2009.
He is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.[8]
He also serves on the board of directors for the Atlantic Council,[9] Motorola Solutions,[10] and Caliburn International, a military contractor that oversees operations for Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.[11][12] Hayden is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University‘s Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also a founder of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden has applauded treating fans of ex-president Donald Trump as subhuman – or at least second-class citizens, cheering a suggestion they be thrown out of the country and compared to the Taliban.
On Sunday, Hayden retweeted a post suggesting sending “MAGA-wearing unvaxxed” Americans to Afghanistan rather than sending the evacuation planes “back empty” after they deposited those fleeing the Taliban elsewhere, calling it a “good idea.”
Good idea https://t.co/pn6xcWTtc8
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) August 22, 2021
The General also retweeted an image of pickup trucks with Trump flags stretching over a road as far as the eye could see, reminiscent of similar images of identical Toyota pickups driven by ISIS. Ironically, those trucks were also likely American in origin. ISIS is also, notably, not the Taliban.
— SophieRoseShebop (@SShebop) August 20, 2021
The former intelligence chief also posted a photoshopped image of the child from the Sixth Sense film inside a car surrounded by anti-vaccine protesters, the caption reading “I see soon-to-be-dead people” – a threat or a sardonic observation, depending on how one reads it.
— SophieRoseShebop (@SShebop) August 20, 2021
Hayden’s retweet spree appears to be part of a growing effort among national security bigwigs to bring the “War on Terror” home – an effort that is sure to escalate now that the war in Afghanistan is, at least in theory, over.
With anti-terror dollars burning holes in their pockets and a presidential administration still doggedly insisting that January 6 was an armed insurrection that came a hair’s breadth from overthrowing American democracy, the national security apparatus is no doubt going to continue inflating the threat of “Vanilla ISIS” – a cringe-inducing mash-up between the rapper of ‘Ice Ice Baby’ fame and the terror group – used by some observers to describe white Trump supporters, until ordinary Americans, too, fear the terrorists next door.
FBI director Christopher Wray has warned for months that “white supremacists” and other so-called “home-grown extremists” pose the worst threat to Americans, while the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month published a terrorism warning seemingly likening Americans protesting draconian anti-coronavirus restrictions to would-be al-Qaeda nostalgists celebrating the anniversary of September 11.
While the DHS admitted there were “no credible or imminent threats identified,” that didn’t stop them from wielding the empty threat like a bludgeon, as visions of their French, Italian, and British counterparts being swarmed by ordinary protesting citizens no doubt has their American counterparts quaking in their combat boots.
The most recent group of generals to take office at the Pentagon under Biden haven’t gotten their communications channels straight, apparently, as Press Secretary John Kirby acknowledged he was “not familiar” with the US Embassy’s warning not to travel to the Kabul airport.
The Biden administration and its allies in the Democratic Party have also been working hard to conflate so-called “anti-vaxxers” with other forms of “home-grown extremists,” calling for Facebook and other social networks to remove their accounts and – in some cases – even suggesting exceptions be made in the First Amendment for criminalizing their speech.
One bill proposed by Senate Democrats insists social media platforms should be held liable for their “failure” to remove “health and vaccine-related misinformation during public health emergencies.”
The bill was proposed by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-New Mexico) last month shortly after it became publicly known that the Biden administration was openly asking Facebook and other social networks to remove certain posts.
Editorials in mainstream publications have repeatedly compared the vaccine-hesitant to terrorists, and cities like New York and San Francisco have taken matters even further, barring the non-vaccinated from entering most places of business.
And indeed, further incursions on the rights of the unvaccinated would be right up Hayden’s alley. He described the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment – which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure – as having changed following the September 11 terror attacks, infamously explaining in a speech several years later that the NSA “doesn’t just listen to bad people. NSA listens to interesting people. People who are communicating information.”
Or, dare he say it…“mis”information?
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……Ashli Babbitt’s black killer gets off scot-free
https://www.rt.com/usa/532853-ashli-babbitt-killing-lawful-case-closed/
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……These people are not “confused”
They are satan-worshipping pedophiles. They are pure evil.
Someone opined: The only good thing about WWIII would be that the banksters will be eraadicated from the face of the planet.
The world’s troubles are caused by politicians, pliable generals financed by banking elites with money we don’t have.
Yes, caused by politicians, but tolerated by the masses, who hate those who seek to arouse them to fight like men.
Exactly, JdN. People will do the easiest thing, even if it only harms them. I’ll stop smoking after this last cigarette. I’ll go to the doctor’s when my leg turns black and drops off. The masses will will look around for someone to save them, rather than fight themselves.