Hayden used MZM (Duke Briber) to develop illegal wiretapping

[BR_Parkway]

program! More tax dollars going out the door where no one can watch what is going on. And if you can't bribe the opposition, then having the spying operation at your fingertips sure gives you a solid way to blackmail them.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000581.php

Before joining MZM in December 2001, King served under Hayden as the NSA's associate deputy director for operations, and as head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

King worked at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, in 2004 and 2005, both sources told me. "King was out there working on same floor as Hayden," one former employee with firsthand knowledge of the arrangement said. "He was doing special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee." Neither former employee knew details of King's work for Hayden; one said he thought he was doing "special projects" for the director, while the other speculated it was "high-ranking advisory work."

The NSA did not immediately respond to my request for comment. Hayden left the NSA in April 2005 to take the post of Deputy Director of National Intelligence. The DNI office referred my call on the matter to the NSA.

As an MZM employee, King was involved in a number of controversial projects. In 2002, he was a key adviser to the team creating CIFA, the Pentagon's domestic surveillance operation. In 2004, he was one of three MZM staffers who worked on the White House Robb-Silberman Commission, which recommended expanding CIFA's powers.

[Old and In the Way]

1. Domestic Spying + Prostitution = Blackmail

I'm convinced that this is the root of the problem. It's going to get a whole lot uglier....

[Chimichurri]

2. Imagine how he can expand this beyond blackmailing politicians

A military guy who has no understanding of the 4th Ammendment who's installed as the head of the CIA and who is encouraged by a criminal enterprise is scary to quantify.

[tanyev]

3. =Sailing through the confirmation process with nary a peep.

Anyone willing to vote against him may be the only clean politicians we have.

[BR_Parkway]

4. Sure makes sense when you look at who voted for what over the

past 5 years. When it didn't make sense for their state, regardless of their personal support/re-electibility, when there was no obvious "I'll vote for your bill if you vote for mine" horsetrading.

I'm fully convinced that there are Reps and Senators of both parties who have been blackmailed into selling us out - and once we can get the chairmanships back to have real investigations, there should be many things come to light.