Ex-NSA-Chef Michael Hayden wurde im Zug belauscht - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Ex-NSA-Chef Michael Hayden wurde im Zug belauscht - SPIEGEL ONLINE

He was the most powerful spy of the U.S., led NSA and CIA. Now Michael Hayden himself was a victim of a wiretap: He led the train confidential talks on the phone - and a seatmate tweeted the utterances in the world. Hayden responded pissed.

 Washington - Maybe Michael Hayden had to just sit in the quiet zone, then to him the whole episode would have been spared. But as the man who earlier had command of the most powerful monitoring service in the world was even overheard. And the public could watch in real time, as the former head of the U.S. intelligence community NSA and CIA fell victim to a wiretap.

Hayden went on Thursday with the train to New York and it was on the phone several background interviews for current Spähskandal. He insisted several times that you do not call him by name, but should cite only the former government representatives. Too bad that a few seats further Matzzie Tom sat.

Namely tweeted what he overheard from Hayden's statements to the world. A citizen peeking back. Matzzie wrote : "The former NSA spy chief Michael Hayden babbles behind me in the background as a former government official." Over the course of 37 minutes Matzzie wrote a tweet at a time. About this: "Hayden boasts rendition and secret prisons." Rendition was called the CIA abductions after 11 September. Even its own hashtag created Matzzie, a blog gender entrepreneurs. Regarding the Acela train in which they were seated, he tagged his tweets at # haydenacela. ( Click here to read the complete Matzzies tweets in our Storify .)

And so apparently learned of Hayden's office also, so what the boss chatted on the phone. Hayden, the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and then was directed to 2009 head of the CIA, now works as a business consultant. The staff called him to warn him. Hayden then went further and put a few rows Matzzie to task. Matzzie even posted a picture together: