Earlier today, two former Bush intelligence chiefs — John Negroponte, who was director of national intelligence, and Michael Hayden, who was CIA director — went on MSNBC to push back against that New York Times report about wiretapping by the NSA.
Negroponte said “I have no question about the legality” of the program. Hayden used a different formulation: “National Security Agency follows the law.” For whatever it’s worth, those claims contradict the Times‘ report.
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