Quotes by : Michael Hayden

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's....

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the....

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to....

Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly....

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in....

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not....

'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's....

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community.....

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the....

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest:....