Former CIA chief supports Clinton: Analyst
Former CIA director Michael Hayden’s criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump does not hide the fact that he prefers the former secretary of state, says Myles Hoenig, a political analyst in Baltimore.
Hyaden, a Republican, said Sunday that he will vote for a third party candidate in the upcoming US presidential election because he is “uncomfortable” with Trump and Clinton.
In an interview with Press TV, Hoenig doubted that Hayden would really break out of the two-party system for anything other than personal interests.
“Hayden is taking an unusual tact than most who support a third party do,” said Hoenig, who is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate in Maryland.
“Instead of just supporting a different party because of their values matching his own, he sees it as more personal against Clinton and Trump yet sees his vote denying either of them a mandate as not a good thing, as he believes one of them will win,” the analyst added.
Pointing to the spymaster’s “approval of torture,” Hoenig argued that Hayden is most likely a Clinton supporter.
“She is drawing from a large pool of neo-con war mongers who are not supporting Trump but still feel a need to support the two-party system,” Hoenig said of the former first lady.
Hayden, a retired US Air Force four-star general who led the CIA from 2006 to 2009 as well as the NSA from 2006 to 2009, has called Trump “incoherent” and a threat to national security.
He has also heavily criticized Clinton for using a private email server to exchange classified data. Nonetheless, he prefers Clinton to Trump and thinks she is better prepared to run the country.
Hoenig doubted that by a third party nominee, Hayden meant Jill Stein, who is the Green Party’s nominee in the race.
“It would seem highly unlikely that it would be the Green Party as they oppose our gulag in Guantanamo, never ending war and torture, and more for an openness of the press, not its subservience to its corporate controllers,” he said.
Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson is the other third party nominee to launch a campaign so far.
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