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Michael Hayden - Michael Mukasey - Alberto Gonzales - Torture - War Crimes - Criminal - Water - Terrorism - Prisons - Intelligence - Law - Politics - "CIA chief names 3 subjected to waterboarding." ... "The CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] director on Tuesday publicly named for the first time the three suspected al Qaeda detainees who were subjected to the harsh interrogation technique of waterboarding." ... ""It was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was used on Abu Zubayda, and it was used on [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri," CIA Director Michael Hayden told a Senate hearing." ... "Waterboarding involves strapping a person to a surface, covering his face with cloth and pouring water on the face to imitate the sensation of drowning. Critics have called it torture." ... ""The CIA has not used waterboarding for almost five years. We used it against these three high-valued detainees because of the circumstances of the time," Hayden said." ... "Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, who also testified at the hearing, said waterboarding remains a technique in the CIA's arsenal, according to The Associated Press. He said it would require [Republican President Bush's] the president's consent and legal approval from the attorney general [currently Michael Mukasey, formerly Alberto Gonzales], the AP reported." -By Terry Frieden -CNN

Secret - Porter J Goss - Michael V Hayden - Military - Government - Terrorism - Intelligence - Videotapes - Censorship - Officers - Safety - Prisoner - Torture - War Crimes - Law - Politics - "C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations." ... "The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A’s [Central Intelligence Agency] secret detention program, according to current and former government officials." ... "The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting terror suspects — including Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee in C.I.A. custody — to severe interrogation techniques. They were destroyed in part because officers were concerned that tapes documenting controversial interrogation methods could expose agency officials to greater risk of legal jeopardy, several officials said." ... "The C.I.A. said today that the decision to destroy the tapes had been made “within the C.I.A. itself,” and they were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence value. The agency was headed at the time by Porter J. Goss. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Goss declined this afternoon to comment on the destruction of the tapes." ... "The existence and subsequent destruction of the tapes are likely to reignite the debate over the use of severe interrogation techniques on terror suspects, and their destruction raises questions about whether C.I.A. officials withheld information about aspects of the program from the courts and from the Sept. 11 commission appointed by [Republican] President Bush and Congress. It was not clear who within the C.I.A. authorized the destruction of the tapes, but current and former government officials said it had been approved at the highest levels of the agency." ... "General [CIA Director, General Michael V Hayden] Hayden said in a statement that leaders of Congressional oversight committees were fully briefed on the matter, but some Congressional officials said notification to Congress had not been adequate." (1, 2) -By Mark Mazzetti with contributions by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane -NYTimes

20060921

Secret - Torture - United States - World - Military - Intelligence - Terrorism - Prisons - Human Rights - Law - Michael Hayden - "CIA Praises Deal; Harsh Techniques Would Continue." ... "The CIA director, General Michael Hayden, praised the deal reached in Congress today that, in effect, would permit CIA interrogators to use harsh techniques critics call torture." ... "President Bush and the CIA have repeatedly maintained the procedures are not torture and have saved American lives." ... "Human rights groups maintain the procedures constitute a form of torture, and the United States military has banned its personnel from using water boarding [which may be allowed under the current Republcan congressional deal]." ... "Today's congressional deal, if signed into law, would allow the CIA to continue the six techniques and to continue to run secret prisons overseas for select terror suspects." -By Brian Ross -ABCNEWS.com

20060524

Michael Hayden - Secret - Military - Intelligence - E-Mail - Phone - Privacy - Law - "Senate committee endorses general as new CIA chief: Full confirmation is expected soon." ... "The Senate Intelligence Committee voted yesterday to approve General Michael V. Hayden as director of the CIA, endorsing a veteran intelligence officer who has pledged to push the troubled agency to take more risks and work more closely with other US spy services." ... "But Hayden's standing among some lawmakers has eroded in recent months amid disclosures of domestic spy operations mounted by the National Security Agency, which Hayden led from 1999 to 2005." ... "During his confirmation hearing last week, Hayden acknowledged that he was a leading architect of a surveillance program launched shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in which the NSA intercepted international phone calls and e-mails of US residents without prior court approval." ... "Some lawmakers have called the program illegal and said that it was kept secret from all but a handful of members of Congress for four years before it was exposed in news reports last year." ... "More recently, Hayden has had to fend off questions about whether the NSA also assembled phone records on tens of millions of Americans in an effort to identify suspicious calling patterns." -By Greg Miller -LAtimes via -BostonGlobe

20060519

Michael Hayden - Military - Intelligence - Privacy - History - Politics - "Hayden grilled on domestic spying: Democrats press the CIA nominee on view of legality." ... "President Bush's nominee to be the next director of the CIA, General Michael V. Hayden, faced intense questions yesterday from Democratic senators about his role in crafting the administration's domestic spying programs, with several lawmakers asking whether he would obey the law if he is confirmed to lead the nation's premier intelligence agency." ... "Hayden stayed cool under the onslaught during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The four-star Air Force general insisted that the administration's domestic surveillance programs, which he designed as the former director of the National Security Agency, broke no laws." ... "Hayden said he believes the NSA program intercepting calls between Americans and overseas callers is legal because administration lawyers signed off on it. A 1978 law requires warrants for such wiretaps, but Bush says he has the authority to bypass the law." -By Charlie Savage -Boston/Globe
Michael Hayden - Intelligence - Terrorism - Secrets - Law - Privacy - Porter Goss - Maine - Russ Feingold - Wisconsin - Oregon - "Senators Use Hayden Hearing to Criticize Bush Surveillance Plan." ... "Senators reviewing General Michael Hayden's nomination to lead the CIA used his confirmation hearing to criticize the Bush administration's failure to tell them about warrantless eavesdropping of suspected terrorists." ... "``The Congress was really never consulted or informed in a manner that we could truly perform our oversight role,'' Maine Republican Olympia Snowe told Hayden. The failure to brief all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees until the day before the confirmation hearing ``breeds corrosive mistrust,'' she said." ... "Democrats Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Ron Wyden of Oregon accused Hayden of misleading Congress in 2002 when he said the government was obtaining warrants to conduct surveillance." ... "President George W. Bush nominated Hayden to succeed Porter Goss, himself a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Goss resigned from the CIA post earlier this month. Hayden is currently deputy director in the Office of National Intelligence, which was created last year to coordinate all U.S. intelligence-gathering operations." -By James Rowley and Jeff St.Onge -Bloomberg

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20060518

Michael Hayden - Terrorism - Intelligence - Civil Righs - Privacy - Law - Oregon - "Hayden defends eavesdropping at CIA confirmation." ... "Gen. Michael Hayden, U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee for CIA director, strongly defended a domestic eavesdropping program on Thursday, saying it protected the country against terrorism and did not violate Americans' civil rights." ... "The toughest questions came from Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and concerned Hayden's role as architect of Bush's domestic spying program and his own credibility." ... "Wyden said Hayden had not kept Congress fully informed of the eavesdropping program and had made misleading statements in previous appearances before Congress." ... ""General, having evaluated your words, I now have a difficult time with your credibility," Wyden said." ... ""So with all due respect, general, I can't tell now if you've simply said one thing and done another, or whether you have just parsed your words like a lawyer to intentionally mislead the public," Wyden said." (1, 2, 3) -By David Morgan -Reuters
Michael Hayden - Terrorism - Intelligence - Law - Secrecy - Civil Righs - Privacy - "Lawmakers Reexamine Hayden: CIA Pick's Involvement in Wiretap Program Raises Questions." ... "In hearings today on President Bush's choice to head the CIA, senators will face an array of questions, loose ends and seeming contradictions about the administration's domestic surveillance techniques. The first mystery they must unravel, however, is the nominee himself, Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who pitched the eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and has become its most forceful defender." ... "Bush and Hayden have defended the program as legal -- the White House has said eavesdropping involved only international communications by people with known links to al-Qaeda and its allies -- and said the attorney general reauthorizes it every 90 days. But twice since its inception, the program was stopped after the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and a senior Justice Department lawyer raised concerns about its legality." ... "An internal Justice Department investigation tried to determine whether lawyers who authorized the program may have acted improperly. But Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales suggested yesterday that secrecy concerns shut down the inquiry. The department's Office of Professional Responsibility notified lawmakers last week that it was forced to end its investigation because the office was denied security clearances to access information on the NSA program." ... "Gonzales defended that decision yesterday and suggested that the probe was unnecessary because Justice issued a legal analysis supporting the effort." -By Dafna Linzer and Charles Babington with contributions by Thomas E. Ricks, Dan Eggen and Julie Tate -WashingtonPost
Michael Hayden -Military - Phone - Intelligence - "Full committees get NSA briefings: Wiretap details provided to Senate, House panels." ... "The Bush administration provided detailed information on its domestic wiretapping program to the full membership of the House and Senate intelligence committees Wednesday, part of an effort to stem growing criticism surrounding its nominee to head the CIA." ... "White House spokesman Tony Snow acknowledged that the decision to brief the full committees, a move the administration had resisted for months, came as part of an effort to ease the confirmation of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former National Security Agency chief whose confirmation hearings as CIA director are scheduled to begin today." ... "The White House said the Capitol Hill briefings, held by Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, who succeeded Hayden as director of the NSA, would cover both the controversial eavesdropping program -- in which the administration has acknowledged listening in on a handful of phone calls between the United States and overseas -- and the recently disclosed NSA database of domestic phone calls." -By Peter Spiegel -LAtimes via -SFGate.com

20060514

Dick Cheney - Michael Hayden - Government - Terrorism - E-Mail - Phone - Privacy - Law - Politics - "Cheney Pushed U.S. to Widen Eavesdropping." ... "In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials." ... "But N.S.A. lawyers, trained in the agency's strict rules against domestic spying and reluctant to approve any eavesdropping without warrants, insisted that it should be limited to communications into and out of the country, said the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the debate inside the Bush administration late in 2001." ... "The N.S.A.'s position ultimately prevailed. But just how Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the agency at the time, designed the program, persuaded wary N.S.A. officers to accept it and sold the White House on its limits is not yet clear." ... "As the program's overseer and chief salesman, General Hayden is certain to face questions about his role when he appears at a Senate hearing next week on his nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Criticism of the surveillance program, which some lawmakers say is illegal, flared again this week with the disclosure that the N.S.A. had collected the phone records of millions of Americans in an effort to track terrorism suspects." (1, 2) -By Scott Shane and Eric Lichtblau -NYTimes

20060513

Secret - Michael Hayden - Government- Phone - Intelligence - Terrorism - Privacy - Law - Opinion - "Newsweek Poll: Americans Wary of NSA Spying: Bush's approval ratings hit new lows as controversy rages." ... "Has the Bush administration gone too far in expanding the powers of the President to fight terrorism? Yes, say a majority of Americans, following this week's revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone records of U.S. citizens since the September 11 terrorist attacks. According to the latest NEWSWEEK poll, 53 percent of Americans think the NSA's surveillance program "goes too far in invading people's privacy," while 41 percent see it as a necessary tool to combat terrorism." ... "President Bush tried to reassure the public this week that its privacy is "fiercely protected," and that "we're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans." Nonetheless, Americans think the White House has overstepped its bounds: 57 percent said that in light of the NSA data-mining news and other executive actions, the Bush-Cheney Administration has "gone too far in expanding presidential power." That compares to 38 percent who think the Administration's actions are appropriate." ... "News of the NSA's secret phone-records program comes at an especially awkward time for the president. His nominee for the top job at the CIA-former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden-heads into confirmation hearings on the Hill next week. With Democrats expressing outrage over the surveillance program, and several Republicans voicing concern as well, the hearings could turn into something of a Congressional probe into the NSA's collection of phone data." ... "According to the Newsweek poll, 73 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of Republicans think the NSA's program is overly intrusive." (1, 2) - By David Jefferson -MSNBC/Newsweek

20060511

Michael Hayden - Secret - Government - Terrorism - Telecommunications - Intelligence - Database - People - Business - Law - Civil Liberties - Privacy - Politics - "NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls." ... "The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY." ... "The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews." ... ""It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added." ... "For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others." ... "The three telecommunications companies are working under contract with the NSA, which launched the program in 2001 shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the sources said. The program is aimed at identifying and tracking suspected terrorists, they said." ... "The sources would talk only under a guarantee of anonymity because the NSA program is secret." ... "Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated Monday by President Bush to become the director of the CIA, headed the NSA from March 1999 to April 2005. In that post, Hayden would have overseen the agency's domestic call-tracking program. Hayden declined to comment about the program." ... "The NSA's domestic program, as described by sources, is far more expansive than what the White House has acknowledged. Last year, Bush said he had authorized the NSA to eavesdrop — without warrants — on international calls and international e-mails of people suspected of having links to terrorists when one party to the communication is in the USA. Warrants have also not been used in the NSA's efforts to create a national call database." -By Leslie Cauley with contributions by John Diamond -USATODAY

20060508

US - International - Michael Hayden - Government - Military - Terrorism - Electronic - Communications - Intelligence - Privacy - Law - Pennsylvania - "Bush Names Hayden to Head CIA Amid Lawmakers' Unease (Update1)." ... "President George W. Bush named General Michael Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency today, even as lawmakers from both parties signaled concern about putting a military officer atop a civilian spy agency." ... "Hayden, 61, is currently the No. 2 official in the Office of National Intelligence, a post to which he was named in August. He was director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005." ... "The super-secret NSA runs massive electronic surveillance programs of international communications and operates a much- criticized domestic wiretapping program as well." ... "Under the spying program approved by Bush in 2001, the NSA monitored conversations between U.S. residents and suspected foreign terrorists without seeking a court warrant, as prescribed by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [Pennsylvania Senator Arlen] Specter has said the court set up by the act should approve surveillance requests." -By Jeff Bliss -Bloomberg
Michael Hayden - Military - Intelligence - Mich. - "Bipartisan cry rises on likely CIA nominee: Lawmakers raise concerns over having military officer as head of civilian intelligence agency." ... "President Bush's expected choice of Gen. Michael Hayden as the next CIA director drew bipartisan criticism Sunday, including that of the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee, who said a military man should not run the intelligence agency." ... "Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who heads the House intelligence panel, said he was concerned that Hayden's military background would further diminish the CIA's post-Sept. 11 role and could enhance the Pentagon's influence over U.S. intelligence operations." ... ""This is one more step in the [Defense Department's] taking over the intelligence community," Hoekstra said." ... "Hoekstra acknowledged that entering into a "public spat" with the White House put him in "an unfortunate position." But, he said, "you kind of look at it and say, `I can't go with you on this one.' In my gut, it just feels wrong." ... ""I do believe he's the wrong person, the wrong place, at the wrong time," the congressman said. "We should not have a military person leading a civilian agency at this time."" (1, 2) -By Siobhan Gorman -BaltimoreSun via -ChicagoTribune
US - Iran - Michael Hayden - Military - Nuclear - Intelligence - Michigan - "C.I.A. Nominee May Face Tough Fight." ... "President Bush announced today that he was nominating Gen. Michael V. Hayden to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, despite concerns raised over the weekend by Republicans as well as Democrats about the wisdom of installing a military officer at the civilian spy agency." ... "Speaking from the Oval Office, Mr. Bush said that General Hayden would bring "vast experience" to his new post. "He knows our intelligence community from the ground up," he said." ... "But in a possible preview of the difficulties that could await General Hayden on Capitol Hill, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee today strongly criticized the choice and suggested that the White House was undoing an agreement with Congress on how the intelligence community should be restructured." ... "The chairman, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, was one of several other Republicans, including some with close ties to the White House, who spoke out on Sunday and said that President Bush should find someone else to run the embattled agency." ... "Mr. Hoekstra said today that it was wrong to choose a military official to lead the C.I.A., especially as crucial questions like the state of Iran's nuclear program loomed. "We need to be able to get the unvarnished intelligence and we need to be able to get it from a civilian," whose independence would be unquestioned, he said."" (1, 2) -By John O'Neil -NYTimes
Michael Hayden - Military - Intelligence - Privacy - Michigan - "Bush Nominates Hayden To Lead CIA." ... "President Bush on Monday chose Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the embattled CIA, re-igniting a debate over the domestic surveillance program that he once ran." ... "Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser to President Bush, made the rounds of morning television shows to defend Hayden's selection." ... ""There have been several directors of the central intelligence agency who have been military officers in the past. So there's precedent for it," Hadley told CBS News' The Early Show. "We don't see any reason to break that precedent ... The question is not military versus civilian. The question is the best person to do the job."" ... "Asked to what extent a Hayden nomination would get caught up in the controversy over domestic spying by the National Security Agency, Hadley replied: "any nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency would be asked to answer these questions, and who better to answer these questions than Michael Hayden, who has been overseeing this process and is very conversant with it."" ... "Nevertheless, Hayden's elevation to the CIA helm was running into criticism from members of Congress who voiced concern that a military officer would lead the civilian spy agency, CBS News correspondent Bill Plante reports." ... ""This is not about Mike Hayden. This is about the fact that we're rebuilding a civilian agency at this time," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra, a [Michigan] Republican, said on The Early Show. "It has to be clearly independent of the Department of Defense. We as public policy makers need an unfiltered, independent, strong voice in the intelligence community. This appointment may lead us in a direction different than that."" (1, 2) -AP via -CBSNews -TheEarlyShow

20060507

Michael Hayden - Noteworthy - Secret - Government - Military - Terrorism - Intelligence - Civil Liberties - Telecom - Privacy - Law - Pennsylvania - "House Panel Chairman Opposes Hayden as Next CIA Chief (Update1)." ... "The Republican chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee urged the White House not to nominate Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Hayden to head the civilian Central Intelligence Agency." ... "The appointment may spark a political confrontation over Hayden's role in the government's warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists, a secret operation that alarmed civil liberties groups and angered Democrats. Lawmakers from both parties said his confirmation hearings in the Senate may provide an opportunity to examine a program the White House refuses to discuss in detail." ... "The Judiciary Committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said the confirmation process and the budget are the only tools Congress has to extract information from the White House on the wiretapping." ... "``If the Senate has a mind to assert its constitutional prerogatives here, then we could use this for leverage to find out,'' he told ``Fox News Sunday.'' ``I think people do want to know what's going on to protect civil liberties.''" -By Avram Goldstein with contributions by Catherine Larkin and Viola Gienger -Bloomberg

20060506

Military - Intelligence - Privacy -Law - Secret - Terrorism - Prisons - "Goss Forced Out as CIA Director; Gen. Hayden Is Likely Successor." ... "Porter J. Goss was forced to step down yesterday as CIA director, ending a turbulent 18-month tenure marked by an exodus of some of the agency's top talent and growing White House dissatisfaction with his leadership during a time of war." ... "The likely successor to Goss is Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency and now deputy to Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, senior administration officials said. He could be named as soon as Monday." ... "Members of Congress privately predicted that Hayden, who once enjoyed tremendous support on the Hill, would face a contentious confirmation process over the Bush administration's domestic spying program. Other sensitive issues, such as the existence of secret prisons abroad for terrorism suspects, also are likely to arise." (1, 2) -By Dafna Linzer and Walter Pincus with contributions by Dana Priest, Peter Baker, Jim VandeHei, and Julie Tate -WashingtonPost

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