{"id":1612726,"date":"2022-08-18T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612726"},"modified":"2022-08-18T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:48:14","slug":"former-intelligence-director-bashes-republicans-agrees-they-are-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-intelligence-director-bashes-republicans-agrees-they-are-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Intelligence Director Bashes Republicans, Agrees They Are The Most Dangerous Political Force In The World"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fformer-intelligence-director-bashes-republicans-agrees-they-are-the-most-dangerous-political-force-in-the-world%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=1612726&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--><p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cia\">CIA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/national-security-agency-nsa\">NSA<\/a> director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michael-hayden\">Michael Hayden<\/a> bashed Republicans on Wednesday, saying that he agreed with the claim that there was no more dangerous \u201cpolitical force\u201d than Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hayden made the comments in response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdwardGLuce\/status\/1557984573354565633\">tweet<\/a> from Financial Times editor and writer Edward Luce. Luce tweeted, \u201cI\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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former intelligence director shared the statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenMhayden\/status\/1560027626626072577\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI agree. And I was the CIA director.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayden, who was appointed to be CIA director by former President George W. Bush, led the agency from 2006 to 2009. Previously, he was first appointed by former President Bill Clinton to be director of the NSA, a role he held from 1999 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force general began his career during the Cold War when the threat of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the U.S. was a very real possibility and has witnessed the rise of an increasingly powerful China in the last several decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure leading the two intelligence giants, he would have been heavily involved with the U.S. response to Islamic terrorism as he was heading up the NSA during the September 11, 2001 attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He endorsed Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-cia-director-good-idea-to-send-maga-wearing-unvaxxed-americans-to-afghanistan\">said<\/a> that it was a \u201cgood idea\u201d to send \u201cMAGA wearing unvaxxed\u201d Americans to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden was widely criticized by conservatives for his statement seemingly indicating that he believes Republicans are more of a threat than ISIS or the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wondered whether there is a Deep State,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SebGorka\/status\/1560091295456133123\">said<\/a> former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka. \u201cHere\u2019s Obama\u2019s DCI calling 74 million Americans worse tha[n] the [Taliban], ISIS, and Al Qaeda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1560071556621111298\">pointed<\/a>\u00a0out that Hayden was heading up the CIA when the U.S. was attempting to hunt down 9\/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hayden\u2019s comments come as the Biden administration, through the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, have ramped up operations and investigations into \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d However, some have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whistleblowers-accuse-fbi-of-padding-domestic-terrorism-stats-to-play-up-threat-report\">accused<\/a> the feds of inflating concerns about domestic extremism. In July, the DOJ was accused by whistleblowers of \u201cpadding\u201d its domestic terrorism statistics to make the threat seem more widespread.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden bashed Republicans on Wednesday, saying that he agreed with the claim that there was no more dangerous \u201cpolitical force\u201d than Republicans.\u00a0 Hayden made the comments in response to a tweet from Financial Times editor and writer Edward Luce. 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