Do U.S. Intelligence Officials Want NSA Leaker Edward Snowden To 'Disappear'?

Washington Dulles International Airport main terminal. Wikiedia

Intelligence Officials Overheard Joking About How NSA Leaker Should Be 'Disappeared' After Handing Classified Documents To Press -- Daily Mail

* Editor-at-large of The Atlantic Steve Clemons tweeted the 'disturbing' discussion after overhearing it at Washington's Dulles airport on Saturday
* The four men were speaking loudly and 'almost bragging'
* They said both the leaker and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, should be 'disappeared'
* Comes after National Intelligence director James R Clapper defended the surveillance programs for keeping America safe
* NSA filed criminal report with Justice Dept. in relation to leaks to The Guardian and The Washington Post

A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be 'disappeared.'

Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the 'disturbing' conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington's Dulles airport.

'In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit,' he tweeted at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday.

According to Clemons, the men had been attending an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

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My Comment: The editor .... Steve Clemons .... is not sure of who are these men .... but if true, it certainly reflects on how unprofessional the U.S. intelligence community has become. But with hundreds of thousands of employees I can only hope that the "bad apples" are a few in number and not representative of the entire community.