Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired
United States Air Force four-star general and former
Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy
Director of National Intelligence, and
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden currently co-chairs the
Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative.
[4] In 2017, Hayden became a national security analyst for
CNN.
[5] On May 8, 2006, Hayden was nominated for the position of
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the resignation of
Porter J. Goss, and on 23 May the
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted 12–3 to send the nomination to the Senate floor. His nomination was confirmed by the
United States Senate on 26 May by a vote of 78–15. On May 30, 2006, and again the following day at the CIA lobby with President
George W. Bush in attendance, Hayden was sworn in as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.