“‘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’. ‘I’m just trying to illustrate that you’ve got a group of people out there who make demands, whose demands may not be satisfiable, may not be rational, from other points of view, may not be the kinds of things that government can accommodate,’ Hayden said.”
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