Friday, October 25, 2013

Former NSA chief's private talk gets tweeted

Former NSA chief's private talk gets tweeted

USA TODAY - ‎4 minutes ago‎
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Former NSA chief's private talk gets tweeted

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Be careful what you say on the phone in a crowd of people.
Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden learned that lesson on a train Thursday.
Hayden gave background interviews to reporters -- meaning he was not to be quoted by name -- but a fellow passenger on an Amtrak Acela train tweeted out his comments to the entire cyber-world.
"Former NSA spy boss Michael Hayden on Acela behind me blabbing 'on background as a former senior admin official,' sounds defensive," tweeted Tom Matzzie, founder of the Ethical Electric Company.
Matzzie, upset at criticisms of President Obama by the former George W. Bush administration official, also tweeted: "Michael Hayden on Acela giving reporters disparaging quotes about admin. 'Remember, just refer as former senior admin.'"
Another entry: "Hayden was bragging about rendition and black sites a minute ago."
Friends of Hayden no doubt alerted him to the broadcast of his background interviews, and he went over to talk to Matzzie.
Matzzie tweeted that out, too.
"I just had a very nice conversation with Michael Hayden," Matzzie wrote. "He was a gentleman and we disagree."
The two men even posed together for a picture -- which was tweeted.
Hayden, by the way, told Reuters that he didn't criticize Obama:
"I actually said these are very difficult issues. I said I had political guidance, too, that limited the things that I did when I was director of NSA. Now that political guidance is going to be more robust. It wasn't a criticism."

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Former NSA chief's private talk gets tweeted

This is part of the problem with the whole 5th estate information war going on all over the globe now. When you take any private conversation (out of context) and make it public, problems are going to arise in literally anyone's life on earth. Things can be twisted to mean almost anything in a public context.  So the saying, "Figures don't lie but liars use figures" comes into meaning more fully in this information age during the information War of everyone against everyone.

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