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Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Michael Hayden says U.S. ‘not at all’ prepared to defend 2020 race from interference, blames Trump

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (Associated Press)

Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director, recovering from stroke

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (Associated Press)

Michael Hayden, former CIA boss, warns against impeaching Donald Trump

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 15, 2009, file photo, then-CIA Director Michael Hayden participates in a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Michael Hayden dares Donald Trump to revoke his security clearance

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. The president called for ending the government's control of phone data from millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump threatens to revoke security clearances of Comey, Brennan, Clapper

By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Michael Hayden, ex-CIA head: Donald Trump harming institutions and people who run them

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Michael Hayden, former CIA head, says of Russia: ‘We took our eye off the ball’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror’

By Joseph C. Goulden

President Bill Clinton left the National Security Agency, the nation's electronic eavesdropper, in shambles at the very moment al Qaeda was in the final planning stages of carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Bill Clinton neglect left NSA ‘brain dead’ as al Qaeda plotted 9/11, Michael Hayden says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Then-Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington after President Bush announced he was his choice to replace outgoing CIA Director Porter Goss. The head of the CIA during President George W. Bush’s second term says “I didn’t lie” to Congress about harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects. Retired Gen. Michael Hayden does say the intelligence community labored after Sept. 11, 2001 to repel further attacks against the U.S. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Former CIA officals refute ‘torture’ report, claim interrogations led to bin Laden

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Left to Right: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chairman David Medine, moderator and Washington Times Opinion Editor David Keene, Former NSA and CIA Director Gen. Mike Hayden, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office Director Laura W. Murphy, speak on a panel called "Privacy in America: the NSA, the Constitution and the USA Freedom Act" at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center, Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 12, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Former NSA director backs House bill to rein in spy agency

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Air Force four-star general (Ret.) and former Director of the CIA Michael Hayden participates in a panel discussion following the premiere of AMC's new series TURN at The National Archives on Monday, March 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Invision for AMC/AP )

Former CIA head Gen. Michael Hayden to pen Times column

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant travels in Iraq's Anbar province. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

The term ‘Al Qaeda’ becomes a tangled web of words

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** Michael V. Hayden headed the CIA from 2006 to 2009.

Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden ‘reluctantly’ supports military strikes in Syria

The Washington Times

**FILE** Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

Secrets are hard to keep in the whole wired world; hacker, intelligence cultures clash

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Michigan Republican. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Ex-insider: Prism use like ‘Bush on steroids’; Hoekstra still backs NSA intel program

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Michael V. Hayden headed the CIA from 2006 to 2009.

TAUBE: Rejecting terror’s ‘new normal’

By Michael Taube

The Washington Times

TILFORD: Petraeus resignation highlights need for reform

By Earl Tilford

Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

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