I don't know why Google has the date it has, perhaps that's the date japantoday.com re-published it. There are some interesting quotes in that article, given what we know today.
A freudian slip?
Hayden said he decided to go ahead with the terrorist surveillance program in October 2001 after internal discussions about what more the NSA could do to detect potential attacks. He believed the work to be legal and necessary, an assertion Democrats and civil liberties groups have aggressively questioned.
"The math was pretty straightforward," Hayden said. "I could not not do this."
Odd, my eyes missed the double negative in reading the article, I only noted it after cutting and pasting, before then I only perceived one "not". Not a freudian slip, sorry.
"Absolute certitude" of guilt?
"If you're using a 'probable cause' standard as opposed to absolute certitude," he said, "sometimes you may not be right."
Guess that blows
presumption of innocence away. 'Probabe cause' is part of the 4th Amendment:
'That damned piece of paper'. So much for an oath to the Constitution.
Move along, nothing to see here.
"I also believe it's time to move past what seems to me to be an endless picking apart of the archaeology of every past intelligence success or failure," he said.
Even as Republicans praised Hayden, senators of both parties said they should have been briefed on the work five years ago. More than one Democrat said he felt deceived.
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