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Why is Michael Hayden trying to validate Trump’s ‘deep state’ conspiracy theory?

By Tom Rogan
Published August 18, 2022 5:17pm ET
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Why is Michael Hayden trying to validate Trump’s ‘deep state’ conspiracy theory?
Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and the National Security Agency, speaks at the 2018 National First Amendment Conference in Pittsburgh. | (AP Photo/Ted Anthony)

A retired four-star Air Force officer, Michael Hayden spent 41 years in uniform. With respective multiyear tenures at the National Security Agency and the CIA, Hayden led two of the nation’s three most powerful intelligence agencies.

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