British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said.

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Michael Hayden played a pivotal, leading role in American intelligence until he was replaced as director of the CIA shortly into the presidency of Barack Obama.

In a wide-ranging talk on the fourth day of the Hay festival, Hayden addressed CIA torture, targeted killings, what he thinks about Edward Snowden and how Facebook is perhaps a greater threat to privacy than government.

Hayden said the security services were changing faster in the US than the UK. "You as a population are far more tolerant of aggressive action on the part of your intelligence services than we are in the United States," he said.

The privacy revelations quickened a conversation which had "Hit the beach" in the US but it "Has not hit the beach here in Great Britain".

Hayden was asked about how much information we give to social media companies and whether the public is naive in trusting Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook more than the NSA. "I have my views on that," he joked.

Hayden said he believed Islam was going through the crisis that Christianity went through in the 17th century as it was in an internal crisis.

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