Posted on 06/12/2013 1:58:38 PM PDT by servo1969
NSA leaker Ed Snowden claimed to have broken both of his legs while training for Special Forces.
"In 2003, he enlisted in the US army and began a training program to join the Special Forces. Invoking the same principles that he now cites to justify his leaks, he said: "I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression"."
That is simply not true as the statement from the Special Warfare Center & School below clearly points out.
"Snowden was never a student at SWCS. He broke his legs while at Fort Benning. His intent was to enter the X-ray program – but that never happened and would not have happened because he only had a GED. Hope this helps.
Janice Burton
Deputy
Office of Strategic Communications"
The 18 X-ray program is a way to go directly from the street to the Special Forces course. You first would attend basic and advanced individual training and then airborne school. Upon successful conclusion of those you head to Bragg for some prep training and the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course. If you pass all of those, then and only then do you start Special Forces training.
Mr. Snowden wasn't even eligible for this program as he didn't even graduate from High School. So the claim that he broke his legs in Special Forces training is BS and that makes him a poseur. Well actually not even a poseur, he claimed to be training to be SF, so that makes him a poseur wannabe, or a wannabe poseur. I'm not real sure how the semantics of that work out. But either way, not really a great way to build credibility. He also made this claim that never rang true when I first read it.
"He recounted how his beliefs about the war's purpose were quickly dispelled. "Most of the people training us seemed pumped up about killing Arabs, not helping anyone," he said."
Right, so the people who weren't training you for Special Forces also happened to be knuckle-dragging troglodytes who were simply looking for a chance to go smoke some A-Rabs. Well I'm not buying it Eddie. I ran into plenty of your types in the military, disaffected losers who never actually finish anything but always have a bucket-load of excuses and who were always whining about how the system sucks. They were never responsible for their own failures, it was always oppression by the man. They were just too smart for the fools running things to recognize their brilliance. Sound familiar? They were also all varying flavors of bats**t as well. Check out Ed's spymaster tradecraft.
"WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel. If all seemed well, the source would walk past holding a Rubik’s Cube."
A Rubik's Cube, now there is a really good way to remain nondescript. Or this bit of counter-surveillance expertise.
"He is deeply worried about being spied on. He lines the door of his hotel room with pillows to prevent eavesdropping. He puts a large red hood over his head and laptop when entering his passwords to prevent any hidden cameras from detecting them."
A red hood? Even the writer who is taking in all of this BS and peddling it to the public is making fun of you dude. Why do I get the feeling Ed also had a ninja outfit and throwing stars?
Whether or not Ed has any information that the government was doing illegal or even improper things is a completely separate discussion. The fact that Ed is a BS-peddling wannabe poseur is now established and ought to be taken into account when judging his words and actions.
UPDATE: Jonn Lilyea at This Aint Hell is also looking at the other things about Snowden that seem to have an air of barnyard ordure about them and had a pretty good idea the PNG wasn't in the Q course earlier this week.
In Mr. Snowden's case, I think "douche-nozzle" covers all the semantic bases.
Is the IRS Lois Lerner to be trusted?
Did Clapper lie?
Do you think that SWCS can be trusted?
Do you think that any part of the federal gov’t - directly or in directly - can be trusted right now?
Do you think that a massive ad hominem attack against Snowden is possible, and/or a circling of the wagons, pro-Obama style?
Maybe he is a Clapper wannabe and this version of events was his attempt at giving “the least untruthful version.”
Don't you remember poor Linda Tripp and her arrest as a youth?
I don't give a damn about this man. All I want is his information. The concentration on him as a person is irrelevant.
I don’t really care about Snowden, I’m more concerned about our growing and oppressive government.
[Well actually not even a poseur, he claimed to be training to be SF, so that makes him a poseur wannabe, or a wannabe poseur.]
A dumb poseur. The military stores service records forever.
"NSA leaker Ed Snowden claimed to have broken both of his legs while training for Special Forces. "
The article treats the above statement like "while training as part of the special forces". While Snowden could have meant "while training to get into Special Forces".
Maybe he got snookered into proposing to the ballerina/pole-dancer and figured this as a way out.
Alinsky rules. /sarc
I don’t really care about Snowden, I’m more concerned about our growing and oppressive government.
Exactly!
He’s brought attention to this and that’s a good thing.
I don't know. But if he'll lie about one thing, it is more than likely he'll lie about others.
“He broke his legs while at Fort Benning. “
Broke his legs, how?
“Snowden was never a student at SWCS.”
Is there any way his record (data) could have been altered?
I seem to remember a certain saudi national having his
documents and records altered my Napotlatano so he could
beat a hasty getaway.
Probably jump school. You have to be airborne qualified to be SF. That would have been the first step heading to SF training.
Is this a clapper caper?
So in two weeks we know everything about Snowden - his truths and lies.......five years since obama was elected still we know nothing about obama’s past or his present and
ten+ years since he has actively been involved in politics and we know nothing.
St. Louis fire.
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