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...almost everyone in the room. The Senators doing the questioning were far from scintillating either. Several GOP members challenged Hayden with such hard-hitting questions as: "Will you brief the committee when invited?" ("Yes, sir" Hayden" responded.) Democrats complained that few members of the Congress were told about the NSA's programs - but Hayden had nothing to do with the decision about which congressmen to tell about the program...
...That candor earned Hayden praise from even one of the NSA program's strongest critics, Democrat Russ Feingold, a member of the intelligence committee and a likely 2008 presidential candidate. Feingold asked a few tough questions, but he repeatedly emphasized his strong respect for Hayden. His positive comments and those of other Democrats suggest Hayden will be confirmed easily as CIA director, as they continue to try to carefully criticize the NSA program without appearing weak on national security issues...
...dress as a workman and ride buses listening to off-duty soldiers talking (he speaks Bulgarian). That was about the extent of his undercover work; he was always more in the business of data analysis than field operations. He has considerable public relations savvy. When he took over the NSA in 1999, it was still a very secretive place--the nerve center of U.S. espionage--and what little was said about it wasn't good. He helped elevate the agency through careful cultivation of patrons on the Hill as well as selected reporters and writers. He even...
...Force, his first job in 1970 was as an analyst and briefer at the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska. He worked in intelligence in Germany during the Balkans war and in South Korea, and at the National Security Council with Condoleezza Rice during the first Bush Administration. As NSA director, he sometimes dropped in on CIA station chiefs in embassies overseas but without the usual retinue of aides. He was "very low key," says a former senior CIA officer...
...subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in August 2004, he strongly supported the plan to create the DNI role, over Rumsfeld's objections, and he even proposed--to no avail--that the NSA be moved out of the Pentagon and into the DNI portfolio...