Michael Hayden: "We kill people based on metadata"
The revelation is about 18 minutes into the debate for those that prefer to simply get to the crux of the matter.
As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, ’metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.’
“When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment ’absolutely correct,’ and raised him one, asserting, ‘
We kill people based on metadata.’”
http://rt.com/usa/158460-cia-director-metadata-kill-people/
Of course he goes on to tell us that we have no need to worry as long as we don't get a call from a terrorist operative (or 'seed number' as they like to call it)....hopefully none of these terrorist operatives will miss dial your cell number...in which case you may want to invest in an anti-drone Kevlar umbrella.
Hayden strikes me as a giddy, animated, evil Mr. Rodgers when he describes the NSA program. I have little doubt he was just as giddy when handing out orders for torture of prisoners in Guantanamo.
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