The Acela Is a Great Place to Stalk or Overhear Government Officials

The National Journal ^ | 10/25/13 | By Brian Resnick and Matt Berman

[Nachum]

A former NSA director isn't the only person to have some issues with being overheard on a train.

Note to reporters with some gumption: Ride the Acela, you'll get scoops.

Note to highly recognizable, but private, former government officials: Avoid the Acela.

Thursday afternoon, Tom Matzzie, a clean-energy entrepreneur (per LinkedIn), and sometime Huffington Post blogger sat behind former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden. The spy was talking to a journalist, who remains unknown, and requested anonymity as he supposedly bashed the Obama administration—which, even for the onetime head of the world's most cloistered agency, is a lot easier to do behind the moniker "Former Senior Administration Official."

Those tweets, and the subsequently amazing picture (which Hayden's office apparently authorized), are here:

[Nachum]

No wonder we are going to Hell in a hand basket.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[bmwcyle]

As he drops from natural causes walking home.

[Nachum]

Like some of these people?

http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpool.htm

[HollyB]

Or somehow seeks refuge from the cold in a dumpster like John Wheeler.

[Nervous Tick]

>> As he drops from natural causes walking home.

The fatboy looks like he weighs about three-fifty.

Should be child’s play to fake an unfortunate cardiovascular event that tragically ends his life as a “green energy entrepreneur” (i.e. a leach on the taxpayer).

I’m beginning to think that there are NO good characters in Washington. NOT ONE. This bozo sure isn’t one.

[null and void]

Yeah? Drive a cab in DC.

The only American cabbie I had on my last trip said that no one paid the slightest attention to him when discussing classified information in his cab.

BTW, the vast bulk of Washington cabbies are Somali muslims.

No security risk there...

[444Flyer]

Inside Information - Foreigner

[freekitty]

It sounds planted to me which is a signature of Leftists.

[Nachum]

Song of the moment

[Yaelle]

Love that he got the guy to pose for him - ego knows no bounds. These needy losers are ruling us. How long before we shake them the bleep off?

[no-to-illegals]

will read the thread later ... have my eyes on one in the Philippines. That is a dirty one. May have to call a friend of a friend of a friend. Mess with my Daughter-in-Law will he?

[no-to-illegals]

How long before we shake them the bleep off?

That is a great question. Have no tolerance for a government official, from the Philippines, wanting to mess with my Daughter-in-Law and beat her up. Plane rides are cheap.

[GOPJ]

Tom Matzzie’s NOT a reporter... OK. Is he a dem? Does he work for Obama?

[ntnychik]

Former Washington D.C. Director of Move-on.org.

[GOPJ]

Is that true? Then it's probably as ‘accidental’ as Newt's cell phone call being picked up in Florida years ago... Seems we have two ‘intelligence’ agencies... and one is not a legal entity of the United States.

[ntnychik]

Scott Pelley reported it on CBS Thurs night. Google confirmed it. FWIW.

[ntnychik]

Mediaite, Huffington Post, CNN (Ashleigh Banfield) confirm Matzzie’s Move-on leadership position. Much more on him online.

[GOPJ]

So he’s paid by George Soros? Interesting...