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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sravasti Dasgupta

CIA director under Bush says today’s Republican Party is more ‘nihilistic and dangerous’ than terror groups

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Former CIA chief General Michael Hayden has said that he agrees there is no political force more nihilistic or dangerous than the current Republican Party.

General Hayden, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009 during the final years of George W Bush’s presidency, made the jarring statement in response to a tweet by Financial Times journalist Edward Luce.

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