Oh, Mike Hayden. I hit his op-ed over at the Washington Independent. Let’s tack on Adam Serwer‘s critique, who sums this stuff up nicely:

Look, who are you gonna believe? A painstakingly prepared Inspector General’s report or a guy who has an interest in making sure he doesn’t go down in history as being associated with illegal and unethical activity that also turned out to be pretty useless in fighting terrorism?

 Your lying eyes, man. They lie to you.