Former NSA Director Hayden Overheard Bashing The Obama Administration And Tweeted Live To The World

Tom Matzzie and former NSA Director Michael Hayden

The Acela Is a Great Place to Stalk or Overhear Government Officials -- National Journal

A former NSA director isn't the only person to have some issues with being overheard on a train.

Note to reporters with some gumption: Ride the Acela, you'll get scoops.

Note to highly recognizable, but private, former government officials: Avoid the Acela.

Thursday afternoon, Tom Matzzie, a clean-energy entrepreneur (per LinkedIn), and sometime Huffington Post blogger sat behind former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden. The spy was talking to a journalist, who remains unknown, and requested anonymity as he supposedly bashed the Obama administration—which, even for the onetime head of the world's most cloistered agency, is a lot easier to do behind the moniker "Former Senior Administration Official."

Those tweets, and the subsequently amazing picture (which Hayden's office apparently authorized), are here:

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Tom Matzzie on Why He Live-Tweeted a Former CIA Director's Private Conversation, and Whether That Made Him Nervous -- New York Magazine

My Comment: So much for an off-the-record conversation.