Posted on 06/11/2013 12:38:40 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Edward Snowden, 29, a former CIA technical assistant and current employee of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, went to the Guardian and the Washington Post newspapers and spilled national security secrets that he had promised not to divulge. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton puts that effort in the proper perspective:
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The private contractor. You seem to be equally clueless about the fact that Snowden wasn't an employee of the NSA.............
As for why? Maybe it was because of his extensive tech experience..........ya think?
Well I DO for all the DEAF and DUMB....emphasis on DUMB!
So who don't know that?
Idiot....EXTENSIVE???OMG...he’s a 29 year old HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT.....WHO HIRED HIM??
Hong Kong is nominally a communist country/protectorate, and is at the top of the list in economic liberty.
The US is nominally capitalist, and is #10 and sinking fast (now even below Denmark, a Scandinavian welfare state).
I have always had a lot of respect for Bolton but this comment crosses my line for respect. His trying to use the entire lot of citizens to enforce or reference his opinion is reprehensible and shows him as the same kind of person he is accusing Snowden for being. Personally I believe Snowden shows a self sense of morality and ethics that is not usual for ordinary citizens but I myself believe I have a higher moral ground than many other people, especially Obama. As far as taking an oath I do believe that such places one’s honor and consequences at stake but if a person takes an oath to defend the Constitution society gets in a bind if the powers that be really mean the oath is to follow just/everything the powers want and the heck with the Constitution. A person can use morality as a club but they should be wise enough to be careful about yours versus mine.
What's that got to do with anything? You think that only a college degreed geek can succeed in the tech world? If so then you are extremely naieve my ignorant friend.........
I’ve had a total of 6 weeks of programming class 20 years ago, and my rates are in the ballpark of Snowden’s.
The situation is not uncommon.
In certain computer fields, ability trumps all else.
The rate is in line as far as I can see.
There are probably many others at NSA in a similar job desc and payscale as him.
People talk about 29-year old as if he’s a child. He looks young. But at 29 he is a full-grown man, not a teenager.
So were Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Bill Gates (who dropped out of college in his junior year), Al Einstein, Walt Disney, Richard Branson and Colonel Sanders..........
So what again is your point? That unless one has a high school diploma he's too stupid to get a job in the real world? Is that what you're saying?.....Talk about ignorance and bigotry.
Ever see the movie the Recruit with Al Pacino? CIA recruits people from colleges. A former CIA agent wrote an article on how they recruit young people from our colleges. Like Columbia, Harvard, most of the IVY league colleges. He was probably one of those teenage computer geeks and/or geniuses.
After 9/11 and passage of Patriot Act, most folks knew phones and computers were being monitored but only those suspected of terrorism. This kid is a hero. He has exposed the abuse of the Patriot Act at extremes.
OMG....are you equating a JUNIOR in COLLEGE DROP out to a HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT.....if you are, I have nothing more to say to you......BTW, HELLO EDDIE!!
Hong Kong is a unique situation in China.
Which means that he SPECIFICALLY did not go to mainland China.
This should be pretty straightforward.
The Chinese telco/gov’t/military continue to try to hack into my server. You run the whois command to find out who an IP address is assigned to. Typically they come back as a range of IPs that are assigned to a telco, gov’t agency, or military. Usually its a telco.
But Chinese telco IP subnets are known to be used by military.
I worked with a Chinese gal once who was very party line; I worked with another who was simply quiet, shy, and very laid back. She told me everyone in China goes into the army, where you have a job. She wanted to go back to China because it was easy, you could slouch around a lot more. I was working at a fast paced American tech company. The party line gal was obviously a plant, married an American and had children. I once had an office next to a small Chinese telco office in the US. It was all Chinese people speaking only Chinese, there were always a couple on smoke break. Whenever you said hello, they’d just kind of stare and not really acknowledge you. They worked all hours.
The Chinese, like the muslims, have the run of the US government. They don’t need what the NSA has, they could care less which Americans talk on the phone with which Americans.
Chinese are much more into Dept of Commerce and American business and American technology that is the property of the private sector, so they can copy things. It saves design time. Many third-world countries think like that; copy.
They have tons of spies within the US government already; there are about 500,000 TOP SECRET clearances, some of them are undoubtedly agents. The Chinese do not have an urgent need for a public disclosure of what NSA is doing, I’m sure their agents quietly stay in their jobs and blend in very well.
I’d be utterly shocked if they don’t have a few of their agents already working inside the NSA, seeing as how the NSA has well over 10,000 people working for it. Even though everyone has to go through security clearances - history has shown that it’s impossible to be 100% correct in identifying spies.
So the Chinese are probably quite well aware of what NSA is doing. They may have used some of the NSA designs to learn from, but they have already implemented the ultra-snooping/censoring stuff under which their portion of the internet runs.
One has to keep in mind that there are undoubtedly a lot of Chinese spies in the US in business and in universities.
I think he’s in Iceland.
Hey, Pieter, look what surfaced today:
The AP cracks:
Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon [ MANPADS]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3029932/posts?page=21
Ping to you too.
>>>Were Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) a Republican, the media (and others) would be proclaiming Snowden a hero.>>>
He IS a hero. Without him, we wouldn’t even know about the malicious plot by Zero and the Dems.
I am tired of reading their articles in the “hate America” press. I refuse to read any more of them.
>>>yep...>>>
Nope!
>>>What was the facts of his leaving the CIA ?>>>
Who cares? Without him, we wouldn’t even know about the illegal collection of info about everyone.
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