Posted on 08/18/2014 12:52:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edward Snowden's in-depth interview with James Bamford of Wired offers details about his last job as a contractor for the NSA in Honolulu, which raise disconcerting questions about the motives of the former systems administrator.
While working at two consecutive jobs in Hawaii from March 2012 to May 2013, the 31-year-old allegedly stole about 200,000 "tier 1 and 2" documents, which mostly detailed the NSA's global surveillance apparatus and were given to American journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in June 2013. The government believes Snowden also took up to 1.5 million "tier 3" documents potentially detailing U.S. capabilities and NSA offensive cyber operations, the whereabouts of which are unknown.
We now know more about the larger and more sensitive cache of classified documents. Furthermore, a close reading of relevant reporting and of statements made by Snowden suggests that much of what the rogue NSA employee intentionally took involved operational information unrelated to civil liberties.
While the tier 3 material appears to have not been shared with American journalists, some of it was shown to a Chinese newspaper. And 14 months later, given the uncertain fate of the documents, it is not unreasonable to ask whether they could have fallen into the hands of an adversarial foreign intelligence service.
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His statements and sentiments are identical to those of Bill Ayers and Noam Chomsky.
Still Report #288 - NSA’s Bill Binney - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-WA6XnBuc&list=UUhZRoC9bMegevAxFmee1oSA&index=52
Notice the push to turn the young into vegans. You need protein at some important moments. The Commies always take control of food thereby controlling the people.
Ever notice that broke people aren’t very mobile and cannot purchase things they might need when nudge comes to shove?
Jeff:
You don’t post very often but, at what point does an American become a traitor when he reveals details of a government acting in direct contravention to the constitution?
How does one get that information to his fellow Americans without providing overwhelming evidence?
Said evidence is illegitimate under the constitution. So what is the big deal in exposing it?
Sure he exposed methodology and that will prove useful to enemies and competitors but, what other choice is there?
He becomes a traitor when he reveals far more to his country's two primary adversaries while hiding that fact and those documents from his fellow Americans.
From what I understand, Snowden had a very large number of stolen documents - far too many for him to review in detail to cull the ones most damaging to his country. He has cherry picked a handful to release to the press while, wittingly or unwittingly, passing on all of the rest to China and Russia, who in turn, will likely share portions with countries such as Iran and North Korea. American lives may well be lost as a result of his treachery.
Snowden could have released documents proving the NSA's overreach without endangering his fellow countrymen.
The government has no right to those documents or recordings in the first place.
The massive number of Tier 3 documents and files described in the article detail foreign and not domestic targets. These are the ones that Snowden did not reveal to his press contacts, however, he has likely provided the files to the Russians and Chinese. They are the ones that are so damaging. The Tier 3 files described contain exclusively foreign intelligence and thus certainly are not protected by U.S. laws.
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