You may have missed NSA Reform That Only ISIS Could Love that appeared in the Wall Street Journal as an opinion piece on November 17, 2014. Less than a month before the release of the executive summary of the Senate Report on CIA Torture.
As a long time reliable source of information to the financial community, the Wall Street Journal should disavow that opinion piece as purposefully mis-leading the very readers it claims to serve.
Why? Consider the excellent summary in Hayden’s testimony vs. the Senate report by the Washington Post that compares Hayden’s recorded testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on April 12, 2007, to the written executive summary of the Senate Report on Torture.
There you will find a consistent patterns of lies and deception that make any statements by Michael V. Hayden unworthy of belief. Moreover, since his pattern of lying has not changed over the years, it injects known falsehood into a vital national debate.
To amend for the perpetuation of this liar’s spew, the Wall Street Journal should disavow NSA Reform That Only ISIS Could Love, denounce Michael V. Hayden as a public liar and call for the release of the full and unedited version of the Senate Report on CIA Torture.
While I may not always agree with the Wall Street Journal editorial line, it has always been faithful to the business community that it serves. The WSJ has done a disservice to that community with the Michael V. Hayden opinion piece and should now make amends.
While the Wall Street Journal considers its perpetuation of lies by Michael V. Hayden, other organizations should reconsider their relationships with Michael V. Hayden.
George Mason University, School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, for example, where Michael V. Hayden is a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Unless they are offering a graduate degree in lying to the American public.
Motorolo Solutions has Michael V. Hayden on its board of directors. I wonder how the shareholders of Motorola Solutions, which is 312th on the Fortune 500 list for 2014 feel about having a torture concealer and advocate on their board of directors?
Which reminds me, what is the statute of limitations on lying to Congress? All I could find readily was: Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview by Charles Doyle (2012). The general rule appears to be a five year statute of limitation and since lying to Congress doesn’t appear to have a separate limit, it may be five years. That’s not legal advice! Check with a lawyer before you make statements to Congress and better yet, why not tell the truth?