Stay updated with breaking news from Matzzie. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Eavesdropping. general michael hayden was talking on his cell phone on a amtrak train thursday, and for a brief period a man tweeted feariously suggesting hayden was giving reporters dispainterview. i feel like i am in the nsa, except i am in public. somebody tipped off hayden, who finished his call and walked over to matzzie and offered him a real interview. hayden later told the washington post he was not criticizing the president, and dismissed the tweets as the story of a liberal activist hearing patches of a conversation. many in china are wearing masks on their faces tonight but it has nothing to do with halloween approaching. amy kellogg looks at the massive ....
he was making political commentary about u.s. intelligence and u.s. foreign policy, and not using all of his credibility to play a political game. that s what matzzie had to say. general hayden seemed to have a sense of humor about it. he was contacted by his office in the middle of this ride, this train ride from washington to newark, is where he got off. general hayden. and then approached matzzie, took a picture with him, which he posted, and when asked for comment, he told us, i had a nice chat with my fellow pittsburgher. not sure what he thinks bashing the administration means. i didn t criticize the president. i said these are difficult issues. i had political guidance that limited what i did as director of the nsa. now it s going to be more robust. it wasn t a criticism. we have had general hayden on my show, the lead, and he has been on the record somewhat ....
He supports the president. after an hour and a half he didn t like what he was saying about the president, what hayden was saying about the president. so he said he was a little bit fed up and started tweeting. hayden pushed back saying he wasn t criticizing the president but matsy in an interview just a short time ago said this about that. there was a very direct criticism he made which is he joked about the president insisting on using a blackberry after he came into office. he was implying that the administration should have known we re eavesdropping on all these foreign leaders because we told him this blackberry device is not secure. we re going to try to protect your communications. so the comments about the black berrill were the most clear thing to me. and matzzie said to me that he felt hayden s comments were undignified and inappropriate. those were the words he used. he believes hayden was borrow aring on decades of his own credibility in order to bash the ....