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Ex-NSA Chief Mocks Snowden Fans: ‘Twentysomethings Who Haven’t Talked To Opposite Sex In 5 Years’

by Evan McMurry | 4:09 pm, August 6th, 2013

Calling their demands ‘unsatisfiable,’ former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden wondered if those sympathetic to leaker Edward Snowden’s plight might respond to his arrest with cyber-attacks. In a speech on Tuesday, Hayden also criticized the lifestyle of the hackers themselves.

“If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?” Hayden said, calling them “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.”

“Who are they going after?” Hayden asked. “Who for them are the World Trade Centers?”

Hayden, who ran the NSA during the early years of the Patriot Act, was speaking on cybersecurity at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“Certainly Mr Snowden has created quite a stir among those folks who are very committed to transparency and global transparency and the global web, kind of ungoverned and free,” he told the crowd. “And I don’t know that there’s a logic between trying to [punish] America or American institutions for his arrest, but I hold out the possibility. I can sit here and imagine circumstances and scenarios, but they’re nothing more than imaginative.”

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