Former spy chief overheard giving
off-the-record interview from Acela train
Fellow passenger tweets details as
former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden 'bashes' Obama administrationhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/former-spy-chief-overheard-acela-twitter
Michael Hayden is a
former director of the CIA and NSA. Photograph: Lauren Victoria
Burke/AP
Who will watch the watchers? Some
guy on a train with a Twitter account, it turns out.
The former CIA and NSA director
Michael Hayden ended up on the wrong end of a surveillance stakeout on Thursday
afternoon when, while riding a commuter train, he was overheard
"disparaging" the Obama administration. The over-hearer was a private
citizen – Tom Matzzie, an
entrepreneur who previously worked for MoveOn.org
and John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
Hayden was aboard an Acela train
outside Philadelphia
and talking by phone with a reporter when Matzzie, who was sitting nearby,
recognized him. Matzzie heard Hayden insist to the reporter that he be quoted
anonymously, as a "former senior administration official".
Then Matzzie began live-tweeting
as the nation's former top spy badmouthed the Obama administration, apparently
in connection with the revelation hours earlier that NSA had monitored the
phone calls of at least 35 world leaders' telephone lines.
Tom Matzzie
Tom
Matzzie is the Washington director for the
MoveOn.org PAC, and wad the Washington director for
the MoveOn.org.
Note: George Soros was a
contributor for MoveOn.org., and is
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Lee
H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at BAE Systems Inc.
Michael Chertoff
is the chairman for BAE Systems Inc.,
and the founder for the Chertoff Group.
Michael V. Hayden
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
was a director at the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a director at the National Security Agency (NSA).
National
Security Agency (NSA) was a
grant recipient for the Microsoft
Corporation.
William H. Gates
III is the co-founder & chairman for the Microsoft Corporation, and a co-chair for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John
F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz
Kerry, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and the candidate for the 2004 John F. Kerry presidential campaign.
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