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Summary ↠ Playing to the Edge 107 Michael V. Hayden ☆ 7 Download Summary ¸ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ☆ Michael V. Hayden An unprecedented high level master narrative of America's intelligence wars from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change   For General Michael Hayden playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats Otherwise by playing back you may protect yourself but you will be less successful in protecting America Play to the edge was Hayden's guiding principle when he ran the National Security Agency and it remained so when he ran CIA  In his view many shortsighted and uninformed people are uick to criticize and this book will give them much to chew on but little easy comfort; it is an unapologetic insider's look told from the perspective of the people who faced awesome responsibilities head on in the moment   How did American intelligence respond to terrorism a major war and the most. This is a superb book It will give you incredible insight into NSA and CIA Okay before I say let me note that I know the author He was stationed at Osan AB Korea in a job very similar to the one I had on Okinawa in the early 1980s We were both Air Force Majors then and had briefly met in Hawaii When he heard I was up at Osan he caught up with me and said c mon over to my place tonight Janine will fix dinner I went had a good time because he and Janine just two very down to earth genuine people At that time they were home schooling their kids They are every bit as Catholic as they claim to be and it is no surprise that they took the chaplain on a family vacationFast forward to 1991 or so Mike and I are both Colonels He is still on his way up and I am surprise

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Summary ↠ Playing to the Edge 107 Michael V. Hayden ☆ 7 Download Summary ¸ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ☆ Michael V. Hayden Can security establishment into the most effective killing machine in the history of armed conflict   For 10 years then General Michael Hayden was a participant in some of the most telling events in the annals of American national security General Hayden's goals are in writing this book are simple and unwavering No apologies No excuses Just what happened And why As he writes There is a story here that deserves to be told without varnish and without spin My view is my view and others will certainly have different perspectives but this view deserves to be told to create as complete a history as possible of these turbulent times I bear no grudges or at least not many but I do want this to be a straightforward and readable history for that slice of the American population who depend on and appreciate intelligence but who do not have the time to master its many obscure characteristics. In writing Playing to the Edge General Michael V Hayden a man who has held some of the most important positions in the American intelligence community wished to fulfill two tasks First he wanted to help fill the gap that most Americans possess in their understanding of what American intelligence bodies may do can do and how effectively they are doing it Second he wanted his voice to be heard about some of the weightiest and most controversial intelligence and policy issues of our time In both of these goals he succeeds magnificently Hayden is unlike what some of his harshest critics may suppose a genuine patriot a lawful practitioner of espionage and man who during his time at the pinnacle of American intelligence from 1999 to 2009 he was in succession the Di

Summary ↠ Playing to the Edge 107 Michael V. Hayden ☆ 7 Download Summary ¸ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ☆ Michael V. Hayden Sweeping technological revolution in the last 500 years  What was NSA before 911 and how did it change in its aftermath  Why did NSA begin the controversial terrorist surveillance program that included the acuisition of domestic phone records What else was set in motion during this period that formed the backdrop for the infamous Snowden revelations in 2013     As Director of CIA in the last three years of the Bush administration  Hayden had to deal with the rendition detention and interrogation program as beueathed to him by his predecessors He also had to ramp up the agency to support its role in the targeted killing program that began to dramatically increase in July 2008 This was a time of great crisis at CIA and some agency veterans have credited Hayden with actually saving the agency He himself won't go that far but he freely acknowledges that CIA helped turn the Ameri. Contrary to my initial trepidation Michael Hayden s memoir exceeded expectations insofar as it challenged my deeply held assumptions and convictions about where to draw the line when it comes security and freedom As a liberal who repudiates the use of RDI for moral reasons always in the FOIA forever camp Hayden s no bullshit account of HUMINT collection proves that often reality is much complex than theory and that sometimes one must play to the edge in order to establish boundaries While I still find the use of torture morally repugnant I also feel the need to defend the intelligence community who have often been made to play the villainous aggressor of political theater Regardless of your stance on RDI techniues retroactively punishing intelligence operate