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Hayden: Probe of IG Is Just a 'Management Review'
As Josh flagged, CIA Director Michael Hayden recently sat down with Charlie Rose for a two-part interview (the second part of which airs tonight). You'll be relieved to know that CIA has never made any mistakes in detentions, interrogations or renditions, and certainly not during Hayden's year-plus as director. Nor has the director made a mistake in examining the activities of John Helgerson, the CIA's inspector general, who himself was subjecting detentions, interrogations or renditions to review.
According to Hayden, his look into Helgerson's activities are no more than "a management review" -- "inquiry is the big and wrong word here," he said -- to see whether complaints made by the legal counsel's office and the CIA's clandestine operatives about Helgerson's fairness were merited. Hayden didn't say anything about whether such a management review will have a chilling effect on the IG's ability to conduct internal scrutiny of CIA programs, as many veteran intelligence watchers suspect. But not to worry: after all, the CIA doesn't make mistakes. (Except when it does.)
Hayden said that his special adviser, Robert Dietz, conducting the five-month-old Helgerson review, will wrap up work next week. Don't expect Dietz's report to be public.
Way Way Way Late Update: Here's the video from Hayden's chat with Rose:
Comments (9)
Jake D. wrote on October 23, 2007 12:50 PM:I fully support the CIA Director during this time of war.
Ugh wrote on October 23, 2007 1:29 PM:I fully support the CIA Director during this time of war with Eastasia.
Jane wrote on October 23, 2007 1:29 PM:Jake D.: Since you have a known history of terrorism on this site, I would suggest that you not blather own about your support for the CIA Director's attempt to destroy the CIA's effectiveness world-wide. Hey, if you were a US ally's security service would you want to publicly associate yourself with a group that was kidnapping Canadian citizens and sending them to be tortured for no reason? What do you think it would do to your funding if you were caught co-operating with the rogue CIA?
Ugh wrote on October 23, 2007 1:30 PM:I fully support the CIA Director during this time of war with Eurasia.
Ugh wrote on October 23, 2007 1:32 PM:I fully support the CIA Director during this time of war with Eurasia.
Mary wrote on October 23, 2007 2:21 PM:In the sole snippet I could stand to watch, Hayden blinked, twitched and jerked through his answers in an imitation of Judas before his big kiss.
He's been a disgrace at NSA and is a disgrace at CIA. Say a prayer for the uniform he wears - that it can survive the repellant things that man does without being reviled throughout the world. So very sad.
dras wrote on October 23, 2007 7:50 PM:Was this CIA director appointed by Bush and Company. He Was, well then I don't believe a fucking word that comes from his mouth.
rylly wrote on October 23, 2007 9:05 PM:Mary, I thought he was imitating Cheney with his tics, he had the lower lip sneer down pat.
Utopia wrote on October 23, 2007 10:39 PM:It appears all the president's men have the same hypnotist, the advanced affectations, obfuscations and tap-dancing palaver is too too identical.
Maybe that Rev. Moon has thee magic potion, a reverse laxative where all the shit flows backwards up and out their mouths.
The man is intolerable to watch, poison oozes out his pores right thru the TV and had me so nauseated, I too had to turn away.
His emphasis (double triple) that terrorism is a military (yea war, gun$ and bomb$) not a police matter, which we know to be untrue, just proved he is like alllll Bushco's appointments...the worst man for the job. (but it insures loyalty don'tweknow)
Never made a mistake? So Maher Arar really was a terrorist? And they let him go? How irresponsible. Maybe *that* should be investigated.
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