WTF

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=C855ED6CC5E087AABF3F8DC02134CCA6.w5?a=138938&f=19

The Times has a piece this morning giving Hayden a bullhorn to spew his propoganda and misdirection without the senators who tried their best to limit his mendacity at the hearing.

Read the whole thing but the highlights were:

1. After five years it seems the Al qaeda Iraq terrorists actually do not have plans to do battle outside Iraq (who knew they were actually just pissed at us for invading). However, according to Hayden we have to stay because the domestic sunni insurgents (weren't we just giving them guns to fight aqi?) may shift their scope of operations outside Iraq to the US.

2. It wouldn't make sense to apply the army field manual on sexual orientation to the Intel community, so why would you make them use the interrogation manual. I sincerely wish I was making that up.

3. A pet peave is that they keep talking about 'harsh' interrogation techniques. Say it with me ... Water boarding is TORTURE. Hayden said the US has tortured people there times and if they were to do it again it would be authorized explicitly by the president and ag.

4. The NIE should have more clearly articulated that while Iran does not have an active weapons program that is no longer the bar.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile