Cult of Dan Brown: Am I confused? hehehehe

ktmason

More regarding the NSA's involvment in the recent eavesdropping dustup:

" In 1996 and 1997, I was stationed at NSA Headquarters, Fort Meade, Maryland, assigned to a unit of the Air Force Air Intelligence Agency, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Our commander at the time was Air Force Major General Michael Hayden. From my perspective, his reputation was sterling. I remember a visit he made to our detachment and to NSA. We listened to General Hayden eloquently share his theories about leadership and integrity. I remember it to this day because it was a breath of fresh air, in light of the Clinton administration appearances of national security incompetence and widely reported investigations by Special Prosecutor Ken Starr. Hayden told us that his family and his Catholic upbringing had instilled in him a strong sense of right and wrong. I came away from that briefing with my faith restored in Air Force flag officers, and a firm belief that here was a man with the innate courage to do the right thing....

I may have been wrong about the integrity and personal courage of General Mike Hayden. His immediate boss, Ambassador Negroponte is a man known for bending the rules, for shaping political reality to pursue a "perfect" political solution. Negroponte's style seems to have withstood the test of time, whether the "final solution" of the day is the defeat of communism in Central America, the creation of an American-dependent Iraqi colony where he recently served as ostensible U.S. Ambassador, or the increasingly mystical White House mission of "fighting global terror."

Apparently, the White House over a year ago asked the New York Times not to publish the facts of NSA eavesdropping on American citizens. True to character, the Times complied and cooperated. But now that we know about it, the media, every member of Congress and every concerned American, should be asking "Is this Constitutional?" and "Is this legal?" The executive branch itself should be asking these questions as well. Further, the executive branch would do well to ask, in a business sense, "Is this worthwhile?" and "Is it cost effective?" and "Does it work to improve national security?" I'd like to think that, in addition to these questions, my old boss Michael Hayden is asking the very simple, straightforward, and ultimately the most courageous question. "Is it right?""

from http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805X.shtml

Confusion over whether there is or isn't an ongoing conspiracy usually gets back to the ultimate goals of any conspiracy. This article mentions Gen Hayden being a Catholic. That begs the question, for me at least, 'is he a member of Opus Dei or Knights of Malta' ?

Coincidence or conspiracy ?

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