Michael Hayden è un autore che approfondisce le complessità dell'intelligence e della sicurezza internazionale. Le sue prospettive sono plasmate da una vasta esperienza ai massimi livelli delle agenzie di intelligence americane. Nella sua scrittura, si concentra sulle sfide etiche e strategiche affrontate da coloro che proteggono gli interessi nazionali su scala globale. Hayden offre ai lettori uno sguardo profondo sul mondo delle operazioni segrete e della politica.
"In the face of a president who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order teeters on the brink. Experience and expertise, devotion to facts, humility in the face of complexity, and respect for ideas seem more important, and more endangered, than they've ever been. American Intelligence has a responsiblity in a post-truth world beyond merely warning of external dangers, and in The Assault on Intelligence, General Michael Hayden, former CIA director, takes up that urgent work with profound passion, insight, and authority." From the back cover
For a longtime spook, Hayden is a breezy and direct writer. He reduces complex
issues of cyber and information warfare to essentials, and his polemic is
leavened with humor and sympathy. He is at his best, though, when he shifts to
a purely analytical tone. He coolly forecasts the direction of America under
Trump, explains the intelligence that foreign governments are likely to
collect from the president's Twitter feed and describes the benefits Russia
drew from the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Kremlin-connected Russian
attorneys and senior Trump campaign officials. - The New York Times The more
important, absorbing and disturbing aspect of Hayden's book is the analysis
from his professional perspective of what Trump and Trumpism mean for the
intelligence community. It is sober, nuanced and, quite frankly, scary as
hell. - Mark Galeotti, Washington Post
Mistrzowska relacja o amerykańskich wojnach wywiadowczych, opowiedziana przez
jedyną osobę, kt�rej kiedykolwiek zdarzyło się dzierżyć ster NSA i CIA. Można
by mnie oskarżyć o dokonywanie oceny mojej własnej pracy, ale jestem zdania,
że mimo pewnych uchybień w istocie dość dobrze radzimy sobie z tym całym
szpiegostwem. Musimy wciąż doskonalić nasze możliwości. Świat nie robi się ani
trochę bezpieczniejszy, a wywiad nadal stanowi naszą pierwszą linię obrony.
Rosnąca trudność tego wyzwania podsunęła mi tytuł niniejszej pracy: Na
krawędzi. Oznacza on wykorzystywanie wszelkich dostępnych narzędzi i źr�deł,
tak jak dobry sportowiec wykorzystuje całe boisko aż do linii bocznych i
końcowych. W wywiadzie takie działania często bywają kontrowersyjne ? sądzę
więc, że w przyszłości nie będziemy mogli tego robić bez uzyskania głębszego
zaznajomienia opinii publicznej, czym jest i czym się zajmuje amerykański
wywiad. Postanowiłem zatem opowiedzieć tę historię, kt�rą dzieliłem z
tysiącami wsp�łpracujących ze mną ludzi. Michael V. Hayden jest amerykańskim
generałem lotnictwa w stanie spoczynku, byłym dyrektorem Agencji
Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, gł�wnym zastępcą dyrektora Wywiadu Narodowego oraz
dyrektorem Centralnej Agencji Wywiadowczej. Obecnie piastuje funkcję dyrektora
w Chertoff Group, firmie zajmującej się doradztwem w sprawach bezpieczeństwa,
założonej przez byłego sekretarza bezpieczeństwa krajowego Michaela Chertoffa.
Hayden wykłada też jako profesor wizytujący w George Mason University Schar
School of Policy and Government.
For ten years, as the director of the CIA and the NSA, General Michael Hayden
participated in every major event in American national security, the
consequences of which are still unfolding today. As honest as it is
revelatory, this best-selling account of America's intelligence wars is an
essential history of our turbulent times that sheds new light on events and
decisions we think we know well.
Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom -- the democratic issue of the moment. In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional threats -- but is it justified? For some, the threats more than justify the current surveillance system, and the laws and institutions of democracies are more than capable of balancing the needs of individual privacy with collective security. But for others, we are in peril of sacrificing to a vast and unaccountable state surveillance apparatus the civil liberties that guarantee citizens' basic freedoms and our democratic way of life. In this edition of the Munk Debates, former head of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz square off against journalist Glenn Greenwald and reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to debate the legitimacy of state surveillance. With issues of Internet privacy increasingly gaining prominence, the Munk Debate on the Surveillance State asks: Should government be able to monitor our activities in order to keep us safe?