“More renditions were conducted under President Clinton than under President Bush.” -- Former CIA/NSA Director Michael Hayden, via Jack Goldsmith, who goes on to make an important point about the selective outrage when it comes to leaks.
Hayden was in the midst of complaining that the press prevents real understanding of public-policy issues, for example by referring to Bush's domestic surveillance program as such instead of describing it as the "terrorist surveillance program," as though characterizing anyone under surveillance as automatically being a terrorist would be less misleading.
Hayden also claimed that referring to John Yoo and Jay Bybee's memos "legalizing" torture as "the torture memos" ended all debate. That's demonstrably false, Hayden's bete noire, The New York Times has been laughably deferential to that "debate."
