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US Intel Officials keep Talking about Killing Snowden, then say "trust us with your data"

US Intel Officials keep Talking about Killing Snowden, then say “trust us with your data”

contributors 01/19/2014

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(By Mike Masnick)

The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can’t Be Trusted (via Techdirt)

We’ve mentioned things in the past like former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden “jokingly” talking about how he’d like to put Ed Snowden on a “kill list” while simultaneously suggesting that the NSA should be a part of determining who to target.…

 

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RT reports, “Knee-Slapper: Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list”

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