Intelligence Sources Float that Obama Should Keep Hayden

by: Matt Stoller

Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 12:06

As President-elect Barack Obama continues to build his national security staff, now focused on intelligence, it is possible that he might ask CIA Director Mike Hayden to stay on for a while, intelligence sources say.

CIA operatives want Hayden for a variety of reasons.  Should Obama pick him, it would be an interesting capstone to the FISA saga.