Former CIA Director Michael Hayden on Monday suggested Sen. Tommy Tuberville was removed from the “human race” because of his restrictions on military legalization.
The shocking suggestion from the retired US intelligence official came in response to a question from a user on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), who asked if Tuberville (R-Ala.) should be “thrown from his committee.”
“What about the human race?” replied Hayden.
Some on social media accused the former top CIA officer of calling for Tuberville’s “assassination”.
“Former CIA Director Michael Hayden called for the assassination of Sen. Tuberville because the senator was performing much-needed oversight of the US Military,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist, said in a tweet.
Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, listens during a hearing before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, February 5, 2008.BLOOMBERG NEWS
“Them: The media and the inner state don’t want to get Republicans, that’s a conspiracy theory. CNN National Security Analyst and Former CIA Chief Michael Hayden: Tommy Tuberville should be killed,” tweeted Logan Dobson, vice president of GOP strategy firm Targeted Victory.
Tuberville, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has for months blocked the rapid and bulk confirmation of hundreds of military officers to key leadership roles in protest of a Pentagon policy that pays for military out-of-state travel for reproductive services — including abortions and in-vitro fertilization.
Tuberville’s veto prevented the Senate Armed Services Committee from quickly approving the nominations by unanimous vote, forcing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to send several promotions to the full Senate floor for a vote.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) arrives during a Senate procedural vote on a short-term government funding bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 26, 2023.MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
A spokesman for Tuberville told NBC News over the weekend that the former Auburn University football coach has no plans to back down from his sanctions despite Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel.
Hayden, a retired Air Force general who also served as director of the National Security Agency between 1999 and 2006, overseeing the agency’s domestic mass surveillance program, has taken shots at Tuberville in the past for his tenure in military promotions.
“Tommy Tuberville is a fool!” Hayden tweeted in May 2022, in response to a video of the Alabama senator grilling Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about US involvement in Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russian aggression.
Tuberville speaks to members of the media near the Senate floor of the US Capitol on September 23, 2023. WILL OLIVER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
“Tuberville is totally racist,” Hayden said in another tweet last month, in response to a user who asked if it was “wrong to call Sen. Tommy Tuberville a racist?”
Hayden was also among dozens of retired military and State Department officials to sign an open letter in August protesting Tuberville’s “reckless” protests.
“Risking the planning and readiness of our military, and the security of our nation to make a political point is way out of line,” the letter said. “The world is too dangerous to surrender our leadership, which is why we are calling on Senator Tuberville to immediately end his sanctions and respect the nation’s service members and their families.”
Hayden is also one of 51 former intelligence officials who tried to discredit The Post’s 2022 report on Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by falsely claiming in an open letter that the first child’s emails were Russian disinformation.
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