Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, director of the National Security Agency, today defended how the NSA operates, depicting the agency as one struggling to tell its story under the confines of top secret classification. After becoming agency chief in March 1999, Hayden conducted several press interviews, including television appearances, and testified in open session before Congress in an attempt to discredit reports that the agency was acting illegally. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, however, Hayden has made few...
