president of the united states, suzanne. and there seems to be some back and forth whether or not he was actually criticizing the preds. how is hayden responding to all of this? how does he explain his behavior. hayden did issue a statement on this and i ll read it to you had a nice chat with my fellow perjure. not sure what he thinks bashing the administration means. i didn t criticize the president. i actually said these are very difficult issues. i said i had political guidance that limited the things i did when i was director of nsa. now that political guidance will be more robust. it wasn t a criticism. one man saying it was a criticism and one saying it was not. but clearly, these are issues that we have to worry about i guess when we re on trains in public. you don t have the expectation of privacy. you re never alone. got to be mindful of what you re saying on your cell phone and where you are at the time. we ve all been on that assess la train. he should have been in t
disclosing these revelations that perhaps something can be done through laws or through the courts. and he also pointed out if we start lookingt stopping ks at the polic b the president he wants a review, suzanne. and it certainly sounds like the cat s alreadybag. people essentially know what the united states is doing and whether or not they curtail that seems to be thele all uyou. > a man whose job it is to keep america s secrets secret. well, he was overheard on the train this week, a passenger who was not far from him but actually heard the conversation started live tweeting the conversation that he had heard from the former nsa chief michael hayden. quoting here he says former nsa spy boss michael hayden just ended last of handful of interviews bashing the administration. and this one, listening to former nsa spy boss hayden give
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