Inside former NSA chief Michael Hayden’s 'interview' with an Amtrak live-tweeter

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By Brian Fung
The Switch
Washington Post
October 24, 2013

He should’ve taken the quiet car.

But that’s not what Michael Hayden did on Thursday afternoon as he boarded 
Acela No. 2170, bound for New York.

Instead, the former NSA director nestled into a regular coach seat and 
soon began what for many travelers is an Amtrak ritual: talking, often 
nonstop, on a cellphone as the train rolled on.

A passenger a few seats away couldn’t help but be intrigued by the 
conversation, which included chatter about President Obama’s 2008 
BlackBerry, specially modified to block foreign eavesdropping.

Could it be James Clapper? Tom Matzzie wondered, referring to the director 
of national intelligence. But why would a sitting official be talking so 
openly about CIA black sites and rendition?

It took nearly half an hour, but then it clicked for Matzzie, a former 
Washington director of the political group MoveOn.org. He whipped out his 
phone and began tweeting.

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