Michael Hayden(IV)

Former CIA director (2006-2009), Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2005-2006) and NSA director (1999-2005).

[observation, 2017, on the role of a CIA Chief] Your job is to tell the President things he does not want to hear. But you've got to walk them to the truth. You can't slap them in the face with it and run out of the Oval Office.