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Home Front: Politix
Ex-CIA chief rates today's Republicans as most 'dangerous' political force in history
2022-08-18
[Washington Examiner] Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most "dangerous" political force in history.

Edward Luce, the U.S. national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, got the ball rolling Wednesday in a Twitter exchange that comes at a time when the Republican Party has largely rallied behind former President Donald Trump.

"I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close," Luce said.

Hayden quote tweeted the observation, writing, "I agree. And I was the CIA Director."

Hayden, a retired four-star Air Force general who served as director of the National Security Agency and later the CIA under former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, is also the founder of the Hayden Center at George Mason University. He endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 in an ad for a group then known as Republican Voters Against Trump.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#14  What a tool.

So which is it, Mr. Clandestine Networks?

Trump is bad so Republicans against Trump
or
Republicans are bad, which means Trump is good?

Haven't heard this much tool since the release of Undertow in '93, which is strangely enough as long as Hayden has been setting up networks, apparently.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-18 18:18  

#13  Director Hayden,
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean we aren't out to get you.
The Deplorables

Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2022-08-18 18:04  

#12  michael hayden ... WGAF?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2022-08-18 18:00  

#11  Still trying to get the liberals to forget the WMD story his intelligence people came up with but wouldn't publicly defend.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-08-18 17:54  

#10  Hayden displaying Stockholm Syndrome? He seemed like a pretty reasonable guy for much of his career, what the hell happened?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-08-18 12:18  

#9  Hayden quote tweeted the observation, writing, "I agree. And I was the CIA Director."

A legend in his own mind. Many others would say we are presently headed towards unprecedented criminality, tyrrany and destruction of the country due to uniparty policies.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-08-18 11:56  

#8  Drones just don't know when to shut up, do they?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2022-08-18 11:49  

#7  Dangerous to your facist world order, maybe. Don't worry Hayden. You'll get yours too when shit goes kinetic.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-08-18 09:40  

#6  For types like Hayden, dangerous is exactly what it needs to be.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-18 09:21  

#5  I'm all for blame storming when we do it to the left. Just saying.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 09:11  

#4  These people really need to go back and read some history.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-18 08:27  

#3  Gen. James Mattoon Scott to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-18 08:23  

#2  Of course he did. He is a special kind of fascist.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-08-18 08:19  

#1  When does Psychological Projection become synchronized Blame Storming ?

Asking for a friend.


Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-18 06:27  

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