Thursday, October 3, 2013

Chief DHS Privacy Officer: Government Called Privacy Office "Terrorists"

Chief DHS Privacy Officer: Government Called Privacy Office "Terrorists"

Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Valentino tweets:
Former DHS Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan: DHS Privacy Office was accused monthly of being "terrorists" by DHS, IC
"DHS" stands for the Department of Homeland Security; "IC" stands for the intelligence community.
This is not an isolated or melodramatic statement.  Rather, it is how the homeland security and intelligence communities look at privacy.
For example, former NSA and CIA boss Michael Hayden compared privacy advocates to terrorists:
“If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?” said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years”.

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