The Absurd Timing of Michael Hayden’s Drone Campaign

MICHAEL HAYDEN, the former director of the CIA and the NSA, has been making the media rounds over the last few days, discussing and defending some of the most emblematic policies of the post-9/11 era in an effort to promote his new book.

According to its Amazon description, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror delivers “an unprecedented high-level master narrative of America’s intelligence wars.” The title is a reference to Hayden’s philosophy of pushing national security policies to their limits — what he envisions as the edge.

Former NSA Head: Terrorists Love Gmail

Gmail is reportedly the most "preferred” online service of “terrorists worldwide.”

The Google marketing team likely won't be celebrating the news, which comes from Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, according to the Washington Post.

In a Sept. 15 speech at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., Hayden explained Gmail's popularity amongst international terrorists. "It's free, it's ubiquitous," he said, later adding that we're probably not going to "see that in a Google commercial."

Michael Hayden, Former NSA Chief: After A Major Attack, U.S. Likely To Seize More Surveillance Powers

WASHINGTON -- Former National Security Agency chief Gen. Michael Hayden hinted Sunday at how the NSA's eavesdropping and data collection program is likely to evolve over time. Critics of the project have warned that by building the capacity to track the electronic communications of all American citizens, the government will inevitably be tempted to employ every tool it has at its disposal and scuttle whatever constitutional safeguards stand in the way. Not to do so eventually would in fact be more surprising, goes the argument.

US war paradigm still useful – former CIA head

The US is currently a nation at war but it’s not the right time to end it, believes retired United States Air Force four-star general Michael Hayden, who served as head of the CIA under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

The American intelligence guru spoke exclusively to RT on a whole variety of issues, including the recent developments in Venezuela following President Hugo Chavez’s death, weird and deadly drone attacks in Pakistan and the recent Stuxnet computer virus attacks on Iran.

He also explained why Guantanamo Bay is so important for the US and why he thinks China is now posing the biggest cyber threat to the world.