In The News.....

By Richard Cowan and David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden on Friday as the next CIA director, with the Bush administration hoping he will help reinvigorate an agency battered by a string of intelligence failures.

Hayden, 61, takes over America's most storied spy agency with a pledge to boost morale and make it more aggressive after it was caught flat-footed on the September 11, 2001 attacks and provided flawed intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Hayden was confirmed on a 78-15 vote, providing a broad bipartisan endorsement to the architect of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program. Hayden has been principal deputy to U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte up to now.


Now they can go back to collecting our phone records as planned. Bastards.