{"id":1612201,"date":"2022-08-18T07:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612201"},"modified":"2022-08-18T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:34:09","slug":"ex-cia-chief-proves-he-is-insane-claims-gop-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cia-chief-proves-he-is-insane-claims-gop-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA Chief Proves He Is Insane, Claims GOP the Most &#8220;Dangerous Political Force in History&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-cia-chief-proves-he-is-insane-claims-gop-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former CIA Director <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-hayden\">Michael Hayden<\/a> endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most &#8220;dangerous&#8221; political force in history.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Luce, the U.S. national editor and columnist at the <i>Financial Times<\/i>, got the ball rolling Wednesday in a Twitter exchange that comes at a time when the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-party\">Republican Party<\/a> has largely rallied behind former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/cia-michael-hayden-executing-nuclear-secrets-leakers-trump-raid\">EX-CIA CHIEF ENDORSES EXECUTING LEAKERS OF NUCLEAR SECRETS AFTER TRUMP RAID BOMBSHELL<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous &#038; contemptible than today\u2019s Republicans. Nothing close,&#8221; Luce said.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden quote tweeted the observation, writing, &#8220;I agree. And I was the CIA Director.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hayden, a retired four-star Air Force general who served as director of the National Security Agency and later the CIA under former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, is also the founder of the Hayden Center at George Mason University. He <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/former-cia-director-michael-hayden-endorses-biden-over-trump-he-doesnt-keep-the-country-safe\">endorsed Joe Biden<\/a> for president in 2020 in an ad for a group then known as Republican Voters Against Trump.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Hayden <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/cia-michael-hayden-executing-nuclear-secrets-leakers-trump-raid\">responded approvingly<\/a> to a tweet talking about executions for those who spill nuclear secrets after it was reported that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/fbi-records-nuclear-weapons-trump-raid\">FBI agents were searching for classified documents<\/a> related to nuclear weapons during their raid of Trump&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mar-a-lago\">Mar-a-Lago<\/a> resort.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden is also one of the former intelligence officials who signed an October 2020 letter <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/joe-biden-confident-hunter-didnt-break-law-or-do-anything-unethical-in-china-klain-says\">baselessly<\/a> claiming Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop stories that popped up in the final weeks of the presidential election cycle. Hayden did not provide comment <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/stay-silent-or-double-down-what-hunter-biden-intel-letter-signees-are-doing-now?_amp=true\">when asked by the<\/a> <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> for a report published in April.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most &#8220;dangerous&#8221; political force in history. 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