Have you used SharePoint? It is software of staggering stupidity from design to delivery. Because the NSA decided to use it, they were forced to hire 1000's of Snowdens to run it. Microsoft and NSA dug that hole together. Snowden had access to about a million documents in that server and there is evidence that he took them all.
Its what happens when government has to make work for cony contractors.
NSA technical managers should have realized that suitability to task was an issue very early in their evaluation process -- in fact, as part of due diligence during procurement.
The fact that their design would have required 1000's of Snowden's, let alone that 1000's of Snowden's would have had this breadth and depth of access should have been clear long before implementation.
If they didn't understand that during implementation, their security people should have during life cycle. If their security people did not, then counterintelligence people should have.
If I worked for the FSB or the Chinese MSS the first question I would be asking myself is: "How much of what Snowden has is real, and how much of it is horsesh!t I am being deliberately fed?" American Intel cannot possibly have failed on this many levels."
And, given that we know that NSA lies to Congress -- even to the Intelligence Committees -- I would be asking myself that same question as a Senator or Congressman.
Okay, with my tinfoil hat firmly settled on my noggin, I wonder if the snowdon leak was was a planned event? You know, like F&F, IRS, and the administration’s war on freedom.
Nothing seems too far fetched anymore.