Former spy chief overheard giving off-the-record interview from Acela train

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.