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When I asked Hayden about the agency's capability for unwarranted spying on private citizens in the unlikely event, of course, that the agency could somehow get the funding, the computer scientists, and the knowledge to begin making sense out of the Internet his response was heated. "I'm a kid from Pittsburgh with two sons and a daughter who are closet libertarians," he said. "I am not interested in doing anything that threatens the American people, and threatens the future of this agency. I can't emphasize enough to you how careful we are. We have to be so careful to make sure that America is never distrustful of the power and security we can provide."

Interview with Gen. Mike Hayden in the New Yorker, 1999


"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."

President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009