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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The former CIA director is blaming millennials for the existence of leaks
2017-03-10
[Independent] Millennials have had to get used to being characterised as lazy, selfish and narcissistic. Now this much maligned generation face the more serious accusation of being traitors to their country.
The right front tire of my garden tractor has a slow leak. I blame bros. Charles and John Deere.
In the wake of this week's Wikileaks dump of top secret files, a former CIA director has broken cover to point the finger at the millennial generation for the growing trend in damaging security blunders.

"I don’t mean to judge them all," Michael Hayden told BBC2's Newsnight on Thursday, "But this group of millennials...simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy and transparency than my generation did."

Just so everyone is in no doubt who he is talking about, Hayden named Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning as the worst cases of millennial treachery.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Wait, so he thinks Hillary is a millennial? Because I have little doubt that Hillary was one of the foremost "secrecy" problems that this country has ever had.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-03-10 18:15  

#9  Same folks who used to sniff our internal patent mail at a fortune 50 and beat us to file with addresses in Tyson Corners and McLean - fckem.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-03-10 16:04  

#8  Crap. Referring to the Hayden comment.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-10 15:59  

#7  Crap.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-10 15:58  

#6  Hayden is a stalwart Clinton supporter.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-10 14:50  

#5  I wonder if whomever did this thinks they are liberal or conservative.
Posted by: gorb   2017-03-10 13:53  

#4  this group of millennials...simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy and transparency than my generation did."

So the mandatory security briefings didn't stick?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-10 10:47  

#3  Left unsaid is if the goddamned intelligence agencies weren't traitorous, they wouldn't be having all these problems with leaks.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366   2017-03-10 10:30  

#2  Millennials failed the 'Deep State.' Only about half of all millennials bothered to vote in the last presidential. Of those who did vote, 55 percent voted for Clinton.

If you are not with us, you are against us.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-10 09:12  

#1  Increasing proof that we should just euthanize all "former government employees" for the common good.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-03-10 09:09  

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