In an interview with Al Jazeera English’s UpFront, Michael Hayden, former head of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, accused Donald Trump of having “already made Americans less safe” with his anti-Islam rhetoric.
“When Mr. Trump says some of the things that he has said - they all hate us; we shouldn’t let any of those people in our country - what he does is underscore and underpin the fundamentals of [the ISIL] narrative of undying enmity,” he told UpFront host Mehdi Hasan.
Asked if Trump could therefore be described “as a recruiting sergeant” for groups such as ISIL and Al Qaeda, Hayden replied: “Yes.”
The retired U.S. general, who ran the NSA and then the CIA under President George W. Bush, also referred to Ted Cruz’s recent proposal “to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” as “very dangerous.”
“We don't have radicalized communities in the United States,” Hayden explained. “We have some radicalized individuals, but we have it fully within our ability to create radicalized communities, and that kind of rhetoric [by Cruz]… actually bends you in the direction of radicalizing communities.”
On the subject of the ongoing Hillary Clinton email controversy, the former NSA director said, “What she did was wrong," her “explanations… are incoherent” and “it was a terrible mistake.” However, he added, “whether or not it represents a crime, I'll let the American justice system decide.”
Asked if he believed foreign intelligence agencies had hacked into, and taken possession, of Clinton's private emails, Hayden replied: “Yeah. And by the way, I would move heaven and earth as the director of NSA to get the unclassified emails of several foreign ministers.”
Hayden said that he “would lose respect for scores of intelligence organizations around the planet if they weren’t already thumbing through the emails.”
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That is an NSA for for you. Not some Dasukigatelike individuals whose only specialty is being an ATM machine for the looters.
ReplyDeleteStupid Heyden! Was Trump around when they killed over 3000 persons in 9/11? Trump is only providing a solution and U are saying he is breeding ISIL. These Arabs like to spill blood, so stopping them from coming to the USA is one way to stop them. All Muslims supports Jihad and that makes them all TERRORIST.
ReplyDeleteI never knew you are still existing El matosky, you can see your ignorance and stupidity about Islam manifesting glaringly with this your comment. Anyway you are known to be synanimous with Islamaphobia.
DeleteTrump is a bigot. If he becomes the president that will be the end of America
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