Furious backpedaling going on here

In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappearedrecorded a bit

— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) June 8, 2013

@billbindc other possibilities are that they could be top intel guys at private firms (see INSA dinner list) who were former intel staff

— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) June 9, 2013

@gn192 @kgvm @billbindc was not plot. They were engaged in bravado. They talked about disappearing him as half joke half serious in my view

— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) June 9, 2013

So first they were US Intel officials threatening leaker and reporter, then maybe not government officials at all, then, whoever they were… maybe they were just joking around.