Over the past eight years, Hayes has done little more than spin for the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Hayes was one of the foremost peddlers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda, something that even Doug Feith, one of Hayes’ supposed sources, later disavowed.
Spencer Ackerman wrote that Hayes “has made a career out of pretending Saddam and Al Qaeda were in league to attack the United States”:
CNN Hires Saddam-Al Qaeda ‘Connection’ Fabricator And Cheney Hagiographer
The Israeli police is operating a special department in the occupied West Bank to monitor foreign...
Anderson Cooper is signing off after 20 years.
The CNN anchor, 58, bid farewell to "60 Minutes"...
