Hayden faults Obama's secrecy

on NSA surveillance programs

Michael Hayden, a former NSA chief, appeared to rebuke President Obama for his failure to seek broad public support for the spy agency's covert mass surveillance programs, according to a Guardian account of a talk in London that appears today.

Presidents can do "one-offs" without constitutional authority, Hayden is quoted as saying in the Guardian's paraphrase. But, said Hayden as quoted by the Guardian, "no president can do something repeatedly over a long term without that broad support."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-director-intelligence-public-support

The Guardian has initiated a new NSA section with an editor assigned to post updates from the Guardian and from around the web, where an interesting analysis by Edward Snowden can be found.