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06-12-2013, 02:27 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
* Editor-at-large of The Atlantic Steve Clemons tweeted the 'disturbing' discussion after overhearing it at Washington's Dulles airport on Saturday
* The four men were speaking loudly and 'almost bragging'
* They said both the leaker and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, should be 'disappeared'
* NSA filed criminal report with Justice Dept. in relation to leaks to The Guardian and The Washington Post
A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be 'disappeared.'
Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the 'disturbing' conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington's Dulles airport.
'In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit,' he tweeted at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday.
According to Clemons, the men had been attending an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
One of the officials was wearing 'a white knit national counter-terrorism center shirt,' Clemons told the Huffington Post. He added that it was clear from their conversation they were among the intelligence community.
Clemons said the conversation initially centered around the event the men had just attended but soon turned to the NSA leaks, which were first reported by Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald.
The term 'disappeared' refers to a secret murder or assassination carried out by dictatorship governments.
Clemons described the discussion on Twitter as 'bravado' and said he believed the disappearing comment was 'half joke half serious.'
'They were loud. Almost bragging. Lacked circumspection about comments & jokes,' he wrote about the conversation in the busy airport lounge
Clemons said he didn't know the identities of the officials or which agency they worked for. He wrote on twitter that he recorded part of the conversation and took a number of poor quality photos, which he said he would post online.
'Was a shock to me and wasn't prepared,' he tweeted.
The dinner was in honor of former NSA director Michael Hayden and chaired by former Ambassador John Negroponte.
* Editor-at-large of The Atlantic Steve Clemons tweeted the 'disturbing' discussion after overhearing it at Washington's Dulles airport on Saturday
* The four men were speaking loudly and 'almost bragging'
* They said both the leaker and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, should be 'disappeared'
* NSA filed criminal report with Justice Dept. in relation to leaks to The Guardian and The Washington Post
A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be 'disappeared.'
Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the 'disturbing' conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington's Dulles airport.
'In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit,' he tweeted at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday.
According to Clemons, the men had been attending an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
One of the officials was wearing 'a white knit national counter-terrorism center shirt,' Clemons told the Huffington Post. He added that it was clear from their conversation they were among the intelligence community.
Clemons said the conversation initially centered around the event the men had just attended but soon turned to the NSA leaks, which were first reported by Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald.
The term 'disappeared' refers to a secret murder or assassination carried out by dictatorship governments.
Clemons described the discussion on Twitter as 'bravado' and said he believed the disappearing comment was 'half joke half serious.'
'They were loud. Almost bragging. Lacked circumspection about comments & jokes,' he wrote about the conversation in the busy airport lounge
Clemons said he didn't know the identities of the officials or which agency they worked for. He wrote on twitter that he recorded part of the conversation and took a number of poor quality photos, which he said he would post online.
'Was a shock to me and wasn't prepared,' he tweeted.
The dinner was in honor of former NSA director Michael Hayden and chaired by former Ambassador John Negroponte.