eavesdropping might be the former head of the national security agency itself. but no. it turns out there was a mole riding the acela train yesterday listening in on just about every word that michael hayden was saying on a kren fon call. and that conversation was about security issues in the united states. that mole was tom matzzie. and what did he do with the information? he started live tweet it out to the tworworld. here are some of the highlights. former nsa blobing. sounds defensive. next one, hayden was bragging about rendition and black sites a minute ago. next one, michael hayden on acela giving quotes about admin. and on acela, former nsa spy boss just ended last of handful
recent train ride of washington, d.c. he heard michael hayden apparently talking to a reporter on his cell phone so he started tweeting what he heard and no surprise his tweets went viral. cnn s brian todd is in washington covering this story. good morning. good morning, carol. the irony of course the director of the nsa, the former director of the nsa which specializes in listening in on people was listened to himself. now whether he was eeavesdroppe on was another question. tom matsy he said mr. hayden was what he termed that loud guy on the train everyone hears on occasion. here are some of the tweets issued after hearing michael hayden speaking to reporters on the form, we ll read a couple. former nsa spy boss michael hayden on acela behind me blabbing on background as a former senior admim official
saying these things rather loudly, was his conversation, what gave you the right to do that. he said basically you don t have an expectation of privacy. he was being the loud guy on the train. he felt he was justified in doing it. next time he should go into the quiet car. you take the acela from washington 0 new york, nothing noise allowed an. if they were, it would have been worse. he did take a picture with him and hayden. they re both from pittsburgh. hayden offered him an interview. mattzie said i m not a journalist. i don t know if they d have that moment now after this all this fallout. you re going to have a lot more later on this story. generating some buzz out there. thanks very much for that. brian todd. is there any hope for what is called a grand bargain budget deal? lawmakers on both sides of the aisle eem 0 agree to the answer on that. congressman tom cole, he s standing by live. he ll weigh in. i m angela, and i didn t think i could quit smoking
eavesdropping on a former directorer of the national security agency, michael hayden was on a train yesterday having a private conversation on his cell phone. a nearby passenger overheard him, took to twitter live tweeting parts of hayden s conversations. here are a few of the tweets. spy boss michael hayden on acela behind me blabbering on background as a former senior administration official sounds defensive. hayden was bragging about rendition and black sites a minute ago. on acela phone ringing, i think the jig is up. maybe somebody is sell telling him i m here. the man behind the tweets tom mattzie was on n earlier today and defended his decision to tweet. he has no expectation of privacy. he s in a public place.