Posted on 06/25/2013 4:26:06 AM PDT by servo1969
NSA leaker Edward Snowden admitted to taking a job at Booz Hamilton in order to gather evidence on US spying. Snowden was fired from Booz Allen on June 11. Active content removed Active content removed
The South China Morning Post reported:
Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contractor for one reason alone – to obtain evidence of Washington’s cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal.
For the first time, Snowden has admitted he sought a position at Booz Allen Hamilton so he could collect proof about the US National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programmes ahead of planned leaks to the media.
“My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” he told the Post on June 12. “That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.”
During a live global online chat last week, Snowden also stated he took pay cuts “in the course of pursuing specific work”. He said: “Booz was not the most I’ve been paid.”
His admission comes as US officials voiced anger at Hong Kong, and indirectly Beijing, after the whistle-blower was allowed to leave the city on Sunday.
And how many other Booz-Allen employees did the same thing?
There’s something wrong with this whole mess, from the prospective of security.
Okay lets not make the story fit the circumstances to turn yourself into a hero. Probably a story planted by the administration to make it looks like hes trying to paint himself as a hero to the Amercan public and you know how well that would go over with the left. Its daily psychological warfare against the American people with this administration. It gets harder and harder to tell what is truth or fiction.
Snowden = separate issue.
The NSA needs to be forced to open it’s files so EVERY innocent American can see the dossier the government has collected against them.
The NSA is the biggest threat to America, freedom, and our way of life. Not Snowden, not terrorists.
True or not true, regardless of his motivation, honorable or dishonorable, if it were not for Snowden we all would still be in the dark, about how the NSA and without a doubt many other government agencies are dead set on destroying America.
I still remember Nikita Krushev saying we will destroy America from within.
“There’s something wrong with this whole mess, from the prospective of security.”.
Ya think?????
Says a lot about how the NSA screens their prospective vendors and vendor’s staff. A high school drop out making six figures plus, top secret security level, traveling around the world (that gets expensive so who paid for all that travel?). And the list goes on. SOund like the kid was smarter than all the rest of the people above him INCLUDING the NSA.
The major reason they want him (dead or alive) is he made them all look stupid. Now its “revenge” time.
I don’t place much credibility on this story.
> I don’t place much credibility on this story.
I dont either.
How is that a negative? PS: the movie and book are going to be top money makers!
This person is an Obama supporter. A liberal. He is ostensibly a libertarian, but he said he supported Obama in the last two elections. Ron Paul would have been bad enough, but actually supporting someone like Obama says volumes more about his intellectual capacity, grasp of issues and morality.
The most dangerous threat to this country is not the CIA monitoring telephone numbers (though it IS a threat)
The greatest danger to this republic is pervasive liberalism and the accompanying socialist and Marxist underpinnings. Those underpinnings will destroy this country more thoroughly and completely than any monitoring program possibly could.
Monitoring programs and invasion of privacy can be stopped via oversight if there is the political will on the part of the citizenry and the government to do so.
Advocating and supporting liberal left policies that have as a goal the destruction of property rights and the ability to keep the fruits of your own labor will demolish the “political will on the part of the citizenry and the government” because destroying our wealth is the equivalent (with respect to freedom) to a farmer destroying the seed for next years crops.
Once that is gone, liberty and freedom go with it.
Because this person Snowden is like a blind squirrel that finds a nut by accident isn’t going to make me support or admire him. I think it is a fine circumstance that he did see fit to spill his guts, but I wouldn’t trust him or admire him.
I view him the same way I view an enemy traitor in a time of war who provides my side with information. The traitor may have all kinds of reasons for his actions (I felt I wasn’t getting the appropriate recognition or promotion, I didn’t agree with the direction of the war, etc) but he still supports the basic beliefs of the side he betrays.
In this case, the guy may be a disenchanted Obama or Ron Paul supporter, but by all accounts, he still believes in everything a radical Obama believes in, and that makes him my enemy. Such a time we live in, where I have to admit to myself that I can view some Americans as enemies, but it is true that I do, as in “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”.
Enough with the hs drop out bs. His father was on FOX last week and explained the matter. In 10th grade, Snowden got mono and was out of school for months so took his GED and continued his education at a community college. I’d say that was pretty good move for a teenager.
See #11.
And I suppose Rosa Parks rode the bus to make a point, not just to get home from work.
“Snowden Admits Taking Booz Hamilton Job to Gather Evidence on NSA Surveillance”
Working at NSA requires, even for contractors, a CI poly.
One of the questions asks if you have an ulterior motive.
Seems Snowden is another example, among many, of the guilty escaping detection by the poly.
That is, if he is telling the truth.
Working at NSA requires a CI poly.
He either is lying now, saying he joined to collect info and passed the poly. . .or he is not lying and is another example of a spy “passing” the poly. . .and that requires training.
“He either is lying now, saying he joined to collect info and passed the poly. . .or he is not lying and is another example of a spy “passing” the poly. . .and that requires training.”
Bingo. And practice too. Lots of practice. Deceiving a poly, especially one that tracks pupil dilation, is very difficult without training. He’s a spy, and we should kill him.
I don’t think we disagree on the danger - we just come at it from different angles. If this data is available to them, the Marxists/Socialists will use it for their own gain.
A data set like this must never exist anywhere. If you must gather data on an American citizen, get a warrant.
Government can never....never never never be trusted with data like this. No matter who is President, no matter who controls Congress, it must never be allowed to exist.
As for Snowden.....as I said - separate issue. I am not sure I believe anything the government press releases about him. I suspect he’ll eventually face the music. I cannot in good conscience condemn someone for participating in the political process even if I disagree with them vehemently.
One thing we will never be sure of as long as the NSA is allowed to exist with data like this - Which politician has been compromised/blackmailed by the “security” bureaucracy? Who in the press will report the story if they know they’ll have embarrassing personal details about their lives released to the public domain if they critically examine an NSA bureaucrat or their budget?
This is the power that the NSA has - and they have already proven that they cannot be trusted to be truthful to the American people. James Clapper, DNI is a proven liar.
No, fighting terrorism cannot be reduced to an IT problem, nor can it be expanded to indict and surveil every American, as is being done today.
The NSA should be forced to open their files on every innocent American. Let the light of day cleanse the sociopaths from the bureaucracy - the outrage of Americans who once and for all realize that they are ALL seen as enemies of the government will see to it.
Why isn’t anybody asking what software, what company’s programs Booz Hamilton is using? It seems to me that people have to have everything pointed out to them by the MSM before they notice. I have two candidate companies in mind, which I won’t list here, not wanting to spread any more rumours than I’ve already done, one private, one that’s become foreign in recent years.
That “admission” (the same as Bradley Manning has made, that his job was taken to get revenge on the military) is an admission of ESPIONAGE, not whistleblowing.
He’s another frustrated Obama voter.
Then again, the Obama administration doesn’t care about the left wing activism histories of fellow travelers.
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