If you thought your civil liberties were in peril now, mes amis , just wait until Gen. Michael Hayden becomes the director of central intelligence. The general has been reported as President Bush's likely choice to fill the spot from which Porter Goss was pushed on Friday. And if he name is unfamiliar to you, that's just the way the administration would like it, since he's the man who has done its dirty work in the spying on Americans conducted -- without warrants -- by the National Security Agency (NSA) which, until recently, was led by Hayden. ( Media Matters has done some in-depth work on the nature of the scandal and its misreporting by many of the major news outlets.) Then there's the idea of having a military man lead a civilian spy agency. The Pentagon already has its spy shop, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), not to mention the off-the-shelf operations created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during his tenure. Oh, yeah -- and the NSA itself is...