General Michael Hayden Calls for GOP Senator to Be Assassinated

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Senator Tuberville's statement here.

Breitbart article: Tuberville Refers Michael Hayden to Capitol Police

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Glenn covered this last night, 1h18m39s into the program:

EU Takes Major Step in Forcing X to Censor Non-Sanctioned Political Speech, Biden Seeks to Link Israel Aid w/ More Ukraine Funding, Former CIA-Chief Incites Violence Against a US Senator | SYSTEM UPDATE #159

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Is it just me, or is this sort of thing becoming normalized?

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It's not you.

When you frame a situation as a struggle of good (the defined "us") vs. evil (the defined "them"), you've set up an existential crisis that justifies all hyperbole, resources, suspension of liberties. With words only--pure advertising and PR techniques--you've set up an "end justifies the means" life and death situation that won't tolerate any form of dissent. And you've rallied the unthinking, cued hordes to jump right in and shut down discussion and the formerly unquestioned right to question.

We've been watching that process for some years now.

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Yes, very true. But suggesting an American citizen should be removed from humanity just for having a different perspective - which is just a euphemistic way of saying "terminated with extreme prejudice" - and not getting universal condemnation for such an extreme statement is something I haven't really seen before. It's not really surprising, given the escalation of assaults on the right to hold dissenting viewpoints from silencing to blatant censorship to suggesting they should be caged and forced to comply. Gosh, where have we seen a pattern like this before? Let me think....

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Steve Friend

Threat to a public official. Where you at, @FBI?

Ferdinand Griffon

One benefit of opposing Trump and “far-right” extremism is that you can be a blood-thirsty psychopath openly calling for violence against Republicans.

You will still be treated as a virtuous paragon of decency in liberal polite society

zxy

99.99% of people who make assassination jokes are no threat to anyone

CIA directors are the 0.01%

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Glenn Greenwald

There's always a lot of talk about "inciting violence" and many argue speech that does so should be banned.

I can't recall a tweet that more explicitly and obviously advocates murder than this one from Bush/Cheney CIA and NSA Director, and current CNN contributor, @GenMHayden:

If I had to choose one headline of which I was proudest in my journalism career, I think it would be this one.

Debating Glenn Greenwald was like "looking the devil in the eye": Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden details distaste for media in new book

 

From the Salon article:

Hayden takes numerous jabs at Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Snowden, in particular. Greenwald is mentioned a dozen times throughout the book — more than most other figures. While describing journalist Andrew Sullivan as "consistently anti-Bush," Hayden calls Greenwald "pretty much anti-everything."

In one anecdote, Hayden even characterizes a 2014 debate with Greenwald as an opportunity "to look the devil in the eye."

Salon spoke with Greenwald, who said he was honored by the intelligence official's ill feelings.

"If my work weren't intensely bothersome to George Bush's NSA and CIA chief, I'd be seriously worried, and deeply embarrassed," Greenwald said.

"Good journalists are adversarial to those who wield the kind of power Gen. Hayden wielded, not friendly, supportive or helpful," he added. "Adversarial means adversarial."

Michael Hayden did indeed wield a lot of power. He is among the most established U.S. intelligence officials in history. A retired four-star Air Force general, Hayden has been the only person to serve as director of both the CIA and the NSA.