"Despite what you've seen on televi-sion, our agency doesn't do alien autopsies, track the location of your automobile by satellite, nor do we have a squad of assassins." That, notes James Risen in his book "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush administration", was how Michael Hayden sounded before September nth 2001. He was then the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and, as the quote from a speech in 2000 shows, his prime concern was to reassure Americans that their intelligence services were not to be feared.
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