I really wanted to watch this. But I swear I couldn’t watch more than 60 seconds of Michael Hayden before I had to turn it off. His unctuous patronising tone had me enraged before a minute was up. Behind every sentence there’s a whiff of lazy condescension; a sense of him being so savvy, and everyone else so naive, that he knows his real-man wisdom is wasted on us, but maybe–just maybe–when we grow up we’ll appreciate what a difficult topic this is and come to realise he was right all along. Guess what, Michael Hayden, your detractors are grown up, many of them are much smarter than you, and even to the casually observing layman it’s plain you’re a slippery eel who may not even have understood his opponents’ points, even though they’ve been aired ad nauseam by Greenwald and others.
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