Former CIA head complains about lack of due process — for the CIA

Former CIA head complains about lack of due process &amp;mdash; for the CIA

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last updated 8 January 2015

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told the BBC on Wednesday that he thought it was unfair for the agency to be condemned by the Senate torture report in the court of public opinion without a chance to defend itself:

[The report] is accusations. [...] It's as if we were tried and convicted in absentia. We were not given an opportunity to mount a defense. And there was no discovery process by which alleged evidence could be revealed and challenged. [The Atlantic]

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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