General Michael Hayden on Security-Privacy Tradeoff

By General Michael Hayden

General Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star General in the United States Air Force; he served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006-2009 and as Director of the National Security Agency from 1999-2005.

Here we go again.  Security vs. privacy.  Round n.  

Of course, I’m referring to the aftermath of the horrific ISIS attacks in Paris.  What did we (the U.S., France and like minded societies) know before the event?  When did we know it?  Could we have known more?  What may have prevented us from gaining the information needed to detect and stop such plotting?

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