Michael Hayden Quote

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Michael Hayden

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

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Michael Hayden (artist) (born 1943), Canadian artist
Mike Hayden (born 1944), Kansas governor
Michael Hayden (general) (born 1945), former National Security Agency (NSA) director, former CIA director
Michael R. Hayden (born 1951), Canadian physician, geneticist and scientific researcher
Michael Hayden (actor) (born 1963), stage and television actor