A former Obama administration official who works for CNN hastily backtracked on a Twitter post calling for people to slash the tires of Canadian truckers protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “Earlier today, I tweeted something that has been used by others to suggest I was promoting vigilantism. I was not. People have the freedom to protest. Governments have the responsibility to protect public safety. That was what I intended to say,” Juliette Kayyem wrote on Twitter Thursday evening. Earlier on Thursday, Kayyem criticized the truckers and called for them to be stopped. It comes as a group of truckers blocked the U.S.–Canada Ambassador Bridge for about five days. “The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a ‘freedom protest,’ is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28 percent of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, …