Ray has since called Clark’s attention to the clip (see below) of Michael Hayden telling a supine, sleepy audience at the same National Press Club on Jan. 23, 2006 that the 4th Amendment does not say “probable clause.” How easily NSA came to mean No Such Amendment!
You have to see it to believe it. Thanks are due Jonathan Landay for asking the question that elicited Hayden’s extraordinary interpretation of the 4th Amendment.
Gen. William Odom, one of Hayden’s predecessors as NSA Director, had already told an interviewer (on Jan. 4, 2006) that Hayden “should be court-martialled” and that President Bush “should be impeached.”