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The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA speculated on Tuesday that hackers and transparency groups were likely to respond with cyber-terror attacks if the United States government apprehends whistleblower Edward Snowden.
If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do? said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who havent talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.
They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States, Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. So if they cant create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida.
Hayden provided his speculation during a speech on cybersecurity to a Washington group, the Bipartisan Policy Center, in which he confessed to being deliberately provocative.
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OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)What a freeper/teabagger. He is a good representative of the pro-NSA spying crowd though.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Goes to show, we are living under rule by the vastly unqualified. But then we knew that. It's still shocking to see a new example of it though. It's too bad we stopped valuing competence and ethics, there was a time when we knew better.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Hayden is a blabbering idiot...SO GLAD he is not in charge anymore! No wonder the NSA is a joke!