Posted on 06/24/2013 4:44:22 PM PDT by frickin_frackin
Edward Snowden said he accepted a job at contractor Booz Allen Hamilton to gain access to details of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, a Chinese newspaper has reported. Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for roughly three months at an NSA facility in Hawaii, is now the subject of an international manhunt after leaking the highly classified documents. He told the South China Morning Post earlier this month that he gained the job as a systems administrator because of the access it afforded him, it said in an article published on Monday. 'My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,' Snowden said, according to the article.
'That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.' He previously said that he took a pay cut to work for the company, where he was employed as a computer systems administrator.
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Folks like the NSA tend to like their seniority, their perks and their turn at the through.
How come he got to skip all the rungs?
Good for him, thanks Ed, for stickin’ it to the American-style-Gestapo-Stasi.
Oh noes... he broke his promise not to keep secret that the United States Government has trampled the constitution and violated every Americans’ right to privacy. He dared expose the dirty little secret that this government could give a rats’ ass about your constitutional rights.
He showed the hypocrisy of the Right’s belief that the Constitution is scared document and not a living breathing one. His existence exposes our spineless defense of the writers who wrote several amendments covering the rights of privacy to prevent tyranny.
For we folded like a deck of cards and are more alarmed about a the person that exposed the massive uncontrolled crushing of our privacy rights than the action itself. I guess all the articles and amendments of the Constitution should come with a disclaimer, “If fighting terrorism all the above is null and void.”
Let’s not defend the Constitution but worry about what Eddie had for breakfast, much more important.
Sniffer, his plan was to stick it to fed.gov by exposing TS information to their enemies.
LOL...
He ratted the traitors out!
I still think Mr Sniffer is a sickening licker. Riddle me this: does the NSA violate the 4th or not? Why do you defend Constitutional violations against the American people? How much are you being paid to commit treason against your fellow citizens?
Exactly.
If I was a congressman investigating this, I imagine the questioning might go something like:
NSA witness: Snowden is a liar, a cheat, a snake in the grass who faked all of his credentials and purposefully set out to harm the United States.
Cong. ASB: And who hired him?
NSA witness: It was a third party contractor.
Cong. ASB: And who vetted him for security?
NSA witness: Uhm, I’ll have to check on that.
Cong. ASB: And who placed him in that position after only one month?
NSA witness: Uhm...
Cong. ASB: So which is it? Is this a superspy or is security at this most secret of installations so porous that a high school dropout with a background that screams security risk able to hack the system, walk out with flash drives full of data and bring down this operation in less than a month? You can decide for me which situation it is.
I don’t think this proves or disproves anything.
If MLK rode a train to a protest where a riot ensued, someone could say “He bought a ticket specifically for the purpose of starting a riot”.
Presumes all sorts of facts not in evidence. We don’t know anything, and most of us aren’t lawyers. Why not let the situation unfold before judging?
I would also be taking a long hard look at the contract process that keeps these politically connected companies firmly attached to the taxpayer nipple.
Booz Allen gets nearly $6 billion per year on this contract alone. Funny how no one wants to talk about the fact that James Clapper was once an executive with the company.
From what I’ve read, we pay out nearly a half trillion per year to government contractors.
By telling the American people their corrupt lying government was 50x more corrupt and sick than previously thought?
By telling the law abiding American people they were being monitored, wire tapped, spied on, while other government departments were threatening, intimidating, undermining, lying to, auditing, demoralizing and investigating law abiding Americans?
Pelosi, Boxer, Obama and the sell out republicans all agree with your position here.
/johnny
Good question. He was a system administrator. Not the highest level job, and he wasn’t the only one. Assuming nothing else, just consider that a 3-month employee was able to not only find the mens room and the water cooler but all this evidence of spying on citizens, and learn enough about the security systems to be able to make copies and ferret information out of a high security installation without getting caught. If he’d worked there for years, that would be one thing, but no matter how sharp he might be, 3 months isn’t much time to do all this, and to do it on his schedule, and without any alarms going off.
If nothing else, doesn’t this make you wonder if the NSA isn’t being run by the same state cops who ran security around Bill Clinton when he was governor?
Except that his damage favors 0 and his motives too much, despite Snowden’s objections. Snowden is destroying the country and making it harder to pursue others who are causing harm to Americans.
The sooner he gets pulled in or rendered incapable of leaking, the better. If he really didn’t like the environment, he would have done well to quit or ask for a non-clearance role - while not disclosing his work that he promised to not disclose. If he wanted to cause damage, the response is to figure out how to identify and prevent others from following. It’s all fun and games until the leaks empower the US’s enemies, causing harm to all in the United States.
The evidence is not in his favor, only the narrative.
The Chinese and Russian “real” leadership have to be laughing their butts off in private.
When they think about how many moles they have inside NSA and CIA.
And NSA and the WH are trying to make Snowden out to be a “spy”.
ROTFLMAO. That’s funny.
Thousands of spies currently in place throughout government agencies, defense contractors and major US businesses, nonchalantly funnelling back all sorts of technical and financial information to via their handlers.
Little ol’ Ed simply releases the ice cold bucket of water in the face of America - that NSA is SPYING ON THE GOOD GUYS ! Law-abiding, patriotic Americans.
He reveals only that ALL Americans’ communication records are used to create maps of human relationships. And the definition of “domestic terrorist” is set to be “patriotic Americans”, “small government”, “raw milk”, “free enterprise”, “Jesus”, “lower taxes”, etc. And then NSA searches their datapile of everyone’s communication data to find a) likely suspects and b) everyone they communicate with. Voila ! The short list of terrorist suspects to sick government agents on is prepared.
So not only are NSA and CIA an enormous waste of money - they are actually working against America.
frickin_frackin
Since May 26, 2013
Well by golly, that nails it. We all need to back off and quit picking on Obama and his friends. They had our best interests in mind when they ignored our constitution and violated the civil rights of all Americans.
Bottom line is: He told the American people that our government has been trashing our constitution and destroying our rights as citizens.
The man is a hero.
They are all just as complicit as Snowden.
I really don't have a clue what Snowden is up to but the traitors have been allowing the destruction to the US since 2008.
It’s all fun and games until the leaks empower the US’s enemies, causing harm to all in the United States.
It's like that old horror film.
THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.
Why isn't NSA, et. al doing something about it unless they themselves are complicit?
Bullshit.
The exposed operation was causing harm to all in the United States. Period.
Agree...
He told the truth about what the corrupt gov was doing to the American people.
It’s why they want him dead
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