A 'puter geek with four years inside NSA as a consultant????
He probably has a few bags of those chips....
(Sheesh, no wonder the Biggies around DC have all vanished...this could well and truly be the week the SHTF, and it's actually happening to them for a change.)
System Administrators see everything. If they didn't how could they do their jobs? I say this as a guy who has had access to everything from credit cards to passwords to authentication mechanisms. You can't debug that garbage unless you can rebuild from scratch and look at everything that comes in on a hex code level.
I'm sure this guy has got lots of nice stuff secreted away.