The hearings for Gen. Michael Hayden as the new CIA director are an example of how successful the Bush-Cheney Regime has been with its media allies in crafting confirmation hearings for sensitive posts.

This was also the case with Bush Cabalist John Negroponte as the new head of intelligence as well as Bush Cabalist Porter Goss as the previous head of the CIA.

The Regime has effectively sidelined news on confirmation hearings into smaller media outlets.

In the Hayden confirmation hearings, the only media to provide full coverage, or so-called door-to-door coverage, was C-SPAN-2 and PBS. Only 13% of people even get PBS as part of their cable or satellite subscription.

Now they have ensured that almost all of the questions that members of Congress intended to ask in open session could not be asked because the Regime had declared such questions to be matters of "National Security."

Therefore, this was a hearing that was nothing more than a lot of pabulum, where nothing of any policy interest was really discussed.