Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who ran the spy agency from 2006 to 2009, is under fire after saying he believes Republicans are worse than the most radical and violent extremist groups in the world. His statement received more than 25,000 retweets on Twitter and 102,000 likes.
I agree. And I was the CIA Director https://t.co/LRAHDDyy4n
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) August 17, 2022
The comment is drawing strong reaction and condemnation. It's also bringing up additional questions about how the CIA operates or intends to operate against American citizens. After all, the CIA works to kill, capture and drone terrorists.
I’ve begun the day still in a state of stunned disbelief that a former CIA director said half of America is worse than the terrorist network that killed Americans.
— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) August 18, 2022
If they’re willing to say that out loud, what are they saying and doing in private?
Are these the people w/ the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ plates? Or the ones w/ the rosaries? https://t.co/A20ssoLFaD
— Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) August 18, 2022
Sure is a bummer how Republicans think the entire apparatus of the state hates them and sees them as a hostile entity! Very unfortunate how they arrived at that notion completely out of their own conspiratorial heads. https://t.co/tOtwbUa0EI
— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) August 18, 2022
As a reminder, Hayden was one of the 51 intelligence officials who falsely told the American people during the 2020 presidential election that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation." Just last week Hayden implied President Trump should be executed after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home.
Michael Hayden was one of three ex-CIA directors who interfered in the 2020 election by signing the shameful Oct ‘20 letter from 51 former intel officials falsely declaring Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinfo. Here the discussion is about executing Trump pic.twitter.com/s136pKgYOy
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 12, 2022