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<title><![CDATA[Michael Hayden - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18241.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></description><category domain="18241">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[President Trump Is Breaking American Intelligence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-breaking-american-intelligence</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin snapped at his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, at a televised security council meeting on the eve of his shambolic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Naryshkin was visibly nervous. Once he had finally stammered out his support...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Intelligence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-intelligence.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsunday</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you brief a president who doesn't distinguish between truth and lies?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gina Haspel Is the Person America Needs at the CIA]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/378378-we-need-gina-haspel-at-the-cia</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She did nothing more and nothing less than what the nation and the agency asked her to do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Undermines Intelligence Gathering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/how-trump-undermines-intelligence-gathering.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The relationship between a new president and the intelligence agencies that serve him can be difficult in the best of times. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to imagine a more turbulent transition than the current one, which has been marred by assertions that the administration has tried to both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Plans to Release Own Medical Test Results]]></title>
							<link>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-cites-health-issue-campaign-hillary-clinton/story?id=42026570</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump said today on FOX that health "is an issue" in the campaign, referring to Hillary Clinton's illness at the 9/11 Memorial on Sunday.Hillary Clinton's personal doctor revealed on Sunday that the Democratic presidential candidate had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Intel Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/opinion/what-intelligence-briefings-can-tell-us-about-candidates.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence briefings, with the first one coming perhaps this week. Rarely has this routine ritual received so much public attention '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and with good reason.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeb Bush Offers Leadership and Vision]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/10/chertoff-hayden-jeb-bush-offers-leadership-vision-national-security-column/78593996/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Americans continue to be reminded that we are living in increasingly dangerous times.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We watched the horrific events unfold on the streets of Paris in November and the immediate lockdown of certain European cities as law enforcement officials worked to investigate and hunt down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Facts About Terror Interrogations]]></title>
							<link>http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/15/former-cia-director-hayden-thiessens-courting-disaster-a-must-read/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wrong Turns on Terrorism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012903954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the war on terrorism, this country faces an enemy whose theory of warfare ends the hard-won distinction in modern thought between combatant and noncombatant. In doing that for which we have created government -- ensuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- how can we be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warrantless Criticism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/opinion/27hayden.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE recent report of inspectors general on the President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s  Surveillance Program operated by the National Security Agency has led some to make hasty and deeply flawed judgments about the value and legality of what was a critical part of protecting America from further attack after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame Games Are Costing Spy Agencies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803494.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Move Risks National Security]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/04/19/michael_hayden_on_obama_releasing_the_interrogation_memos.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former CIA Director Michael Hayden talks about President Obama releasing the memos detailing U.S. interrogation methods.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Ties His Hands in Terror War]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993446103128041.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hayden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly...]]></description>
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