What Happens When the President Ignores — and Even Belittles — His Own Intelligence Community?
[ad_1] Photo Michael V. Hayden Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images THE ASSAULT ON INTELLIGENCE American National Security In An Age Of Lies By Michael V. Hayden 257 pp. Penguin Press. $28. Michael Hayden — the retired Air Force general who has directed both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, now a principal in a Washington consulting group — went on a fact-finding mission in August 2017. The subject of his inquiry, however, was not a foreign espionage service. What Hayden was after were clues to why America had elected Donald Trump. He began by talking to several dozen of his brother’s friends, all Trump supporters, over beers in a Pittsburgh bar. “I knew many of the participants, indeed had grown up with several,” Hayden writes. “But we could have been from different planets.” While Hayden was curious about and...