A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency has called the Republican Party the most extremist and dangerous force in the world.
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden was commenting on a Twitter message from British author and Financial Times contributor Edward Luce, who wrote: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.”
Hayden replied, “I agree. And I was the CIA Director”
Hayden is a retired Air Force general who was named director of the National Security Agency during the Bill Clinton administration and was named CIA director by President George W. Bush. He wrote the nonfiction book, “The Assault on Intelligence, American National Security in an Age of Lies.”
The CIA is the agency that houses America’s spies and keeps an eye on despots around the world — people like Xi Jinping, the president of China, which is the world’s largest thought police; and people like Vladimir Putin, president of Russia and ruthless invader of Ukraine. According to Hayden, the Republican Party is more of a threat than dictators he knows of across the globe.
