Michael Hayden (general)

Michael Hayden, 2006.

Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden currently co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative. In 2017, Hayden became a national security analyst for CNN.

Quotes

• We kill people based on metadata.
  • Quoted in: David Cole "We Kill People Based on Metadata" in The New York Review of Books, May 10, 2014.