May 18, 2006 -- General Hayden's military conduct not brought up in his confirmation hearings for CIA Director. Gen. Michael Hayden's confirmation hearing today before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the second confirmation hearing where his personal conduct as NSA Director has not been addressed, the first being his confirmation hearing to be Deputy Director of National Intelligence. According to a former Air Force officer who worked for the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and CIA, Hayden was officially reported in 2001 to two Air Force Inspectors General for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate female officer. According to the former Air Force intelligence officer, the alleged affair, which the Uniform Code of Military Justice and Air Force regulations would deem as "conduct unbecoming an officer," took place in 2001 at NSA's signals intelligence directorate in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina while Hayden was on a visit to the center. At the time, Hayden was NSA Director. According to the former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, two complaints were filed against Hayden with Col. James Worth of the U.S. Air Force Inspector General's office and Col. Dennis Lange of the 8th Air Force Inspector General's office. No action against Hayden was taken by either IG and the matter was quickly dropped. Last year, Army Gen. Kevin Byrnes, the four-star commander of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), was relieved of command for allegedly having an affair with a civilian woman. Byrnes was legally separated from his wife at the time. In reality, Byrnes was fired for disagreeing with the neocon clique of Donald Rumsfeld. Byrnes was charged with having an "inappropriate relationship" by the Pentagon. In 1997, Air Force General Joseph Ralston was forced to withdraw his nomination as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after he was charged with having an extramarital affair in the 1980s with a female CIA employee after he was legally separated from his wife. The right-wing were behind the operations against Generals Byrnes and Ralston. The right wingers seem to have a different opinion of misconduct when it comes to someone who is carrying the water for their neo-fascist total surveillance agenda.