Ex-CIA director's advice: Do not serve this president
Source: Yahoo News
Dylan Stableford Senior Editor, Yahoo NewsMay 4, 2018
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden has some surprising advice for onetime colleagues who ask whether they should take a job working for President Trump: Dont do it. You will only endanger your own future and reputation.
In a new interview featured on the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery, Hayden said its been hard to watch top Trump administration officials including former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, former Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert and others defend an often indefensible president.
The longer they were in the administration, the more their personal credentials were being threatened, Hayden said. At what point do you stop being a guard rail and become an enabler and a legitimizer?
Hayden lays out his views in his new book, The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies, which serves as a searing indictment of a president who Hayden depicts as a congenital liar and a useful idiot of Vladimir Putin.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-cia-directors-advice-not-serve-president-131549743.html
Boomer
(4,168 posts)The only surprise is that anyone needs this self-evident advice.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I'm guessing it's "surprising" in that an assumedly circumspect man like Hayden would be so contentious and so public.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)Wall Street, Putin, Big Awl.
There are a lot of big-name miscreants who simply don't share Hayden's patriotism, to say the least. And they reward lackeys.
StarzGuy
(254 posts)Anyone considering joining the trump administration should take seriously what will happen when trump is tired of you...you will leave in disgrace and end up on Rachel Maddow's wall of resigned and/or fired trump cronies. Which, by the way now wraps around her on air screen.
What I don't get is why anyone in their right mind would join the trump clown car, disaster and mind fart administration in the first place.
djacq
(1,634 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Gotta annoy cheetoz...
calimary
(81,307 posts)I wonder how long his new impeachment specialist will last before he gets the hell out, too. Especially when he almost immediately was confronted by all the adverse breaking news Rudy just recently generated that will only make his job all the harder. And that stuff happened in what - his first 24 HOURS on the job?!?!?
Lordy Lordy - Id be running for the hills too - while I still had an uncontaminated reputation!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Donnie Two Scoops is a man who soars high above the chaos he's creating.
His staff is rearranging the chairs on the Hindenberg.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)And I thank the OP for yet even more good news.