Voldemort is not the only one with an unmentionable name.
Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event on Thursday, former NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden revealed, to audience laughter, that the word “Snowden” is never said at the NSA.
“People use the phrase ‘he who will not be named’ ” to refer to the whistleblower, instead, Hayden said.
Hayden also called Snowden’s disclosure of thousands of classified documents the “greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of the republic,” The Hill reports.
These comments come after Al Gore defended Snowden on Tuesday, contending that his crimes pale in comparison to the constitutional violations of secret government surveillance programs and crediting Snowden for initiating an “absolutely essential conversation” about privacy rights.
