Playing to the edge
by Michael V. Hayden · first published 2016
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"An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and the NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and momentous change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was Hayden's guiding principle when he ran the National Security Agency, and it remained so when he ran the CIA. In his view, many shortsighted and uninforme
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…has been well described by the senior folks involved since at least 2001: * Ash Carter (SecDef) Keeping the Edge: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/keeping-edge * Michael Hayden (chief of NSA and CIA): Playing to the Edge: https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Edge-American-Intelligence-Te...
on “Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense” ↗…and Drake were upset because their Thinthread project was passed over and a much more advanced and expensive project was chosen (that later failed miserably). Hayden directly refutes them in his book "Playing to the Edge". I'm sure you won't take his statements as anything, but you said there was a "lack of denial" from the intelligence community, and his book is full of them.
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