Repubs speculate CIA Chief Hayden is cozying up to Dems - aligning himself for 2008

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/321812,CST-EDT-novak01.article

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Politics at CIA

Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director, conferred privately with two Democratic committee chairmen -- with no Republicans present -- the night before the March 16 House hearings on the Valerie Plame CIA leak.

Hayden talked to Rep. Henry Waxman, whose Oversight and Government Reform Committee conducted the hearing, and Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the Intelligence Committee chairman.

Waxman the next day quoted Hayden's description of Plame's status with the agency after the CIA's repeated refusal to discuss this subject with Republican chairmen before the 2006 election.

Hayden, a career Air Force officer, has assured complaining Republicans he is not a Democrat. However, these Republicans speculate that Hayden is angling to move a step up as director of National Intelligence under a Democratic president who might be elected in 2008.

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