Michael Hayden on 'The Assault on Intelligence'
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🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Gen. Michael Hayden has served as the head of both the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency—and he says that intelligence is under attack. In his latest book, “The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies,” Gen. Hayden argues that in what he calls a post-truth world, the United States needs its intelligence community now as much as ever. All the more reason to be concerned about the president’s repeated attacks on it.
On June 15, Gen. Hayden sat down with Jamil Jaffer of George Mason University’s National Security Institute to talk about the book, and how the intelligence community can navigate the challenges it faces.
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| 1:29.2 | General Michael Hayden has served as the head of both the Central Intelligence Agency and |
| 1:34.3 | the National Security Agency. |
| 1:36.7 | And he says that intelligence is under attack. |
| 1:40.6 | In his latest book, The Assault on Intelligence, American National Security in an Age of |
| 1:46.1 | Lives, General Hayden argues that in what he calls a post-truth world, the United States |
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