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

    10/25/2013 8:29:11 AM PDT · by Nachum · 18 replies
    The National Journal ^ | 10/25/13 | By Brian Resnick and Matt Berman
    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...