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.
The only question that needs to be answered right now is whether or not the NSA has been spying on every single American Citizen?
So far all indications are that the answer to that question is YES.
Also, if Snowden lie about his credentials and could still get a job monitoring every single American’s private e-mails, text messages, Face Book posts, Google searches.... Then God only knows how many terrorists, unfriendly governments and blackmailers have the same access.
Right now all I want to know is how much has the government been spying and how long it has been going on and whether John Roberts was blackmailed into approving Obamacare.
LOL, ain’t that the truth. The military can’t even provide all vets with their DD-214 because of a fire a long time ago.
Who gave the orders to stand down in Benghazi and where was 0 that entire night?
“I don’t know. But if he’ll lie about one thing, it is more than likely he’ll lie about others.”
And I guess you’ve never lied about anything... I would guess he has a lot more guts and more honer than you ever did.
Maybe he could be lying about working for/with the NAS as well.
Helping the regime and media to assassinate this man’s name thus redirecting attention away from the criminality of the regime is SOP. Sad to see freepers jumping in to help the enemies of we the people.
Does that make the information he leaked any less valid or is this just an extension of the smear campaign of the Clinton administration?
And I suppose you have never lied about anything?
If he has lied about what the government is doing, then why are they calling his actions treason instead of denying the veracity of his claims?
Besides, doesn't he have documents supporting his allegations?
Do you automatically believe everything that any blogger on the Internet spews?
Maybe the PTB want this to become known, and are asking us if we are ok with what they want to do. Snowden is a patsy sent to ask us the question.
I suppose this is to soften us up, and to begin getting us used to the idea of total worldwide surveillance.
I predict nothing will happen. Same with any of these other scandals.
“I don’t know. But if he’ll lie about one thing, it is more than likely he’ll lie about others.”
Scooter Libby? Yea, they got him the same way. Problem is
pretty much everything he disclosed is true. The question is,
do and should the American people have the right to know
that their government IS data mining every aspect of their
life (public and private) for any purpose they choose?
Sounds to me he just gave an overly broad or abbreviated explanation of what this cryptic X-Ray program was.
Big Obama spy government fan are we? This is how they operate. Remember Ken Starr? Linda Tripp? They attack the messenger, again and again and again...
I bet by the end of the week we’ll know more about Snownden than we’re ever likely to know about Obama.
That the way I read it, must have been in jump school.
Note it does not say what he was doing at Fort Benning when he broke his legs. Could he have been training to try out for SF? Doubtful as he should have know he did not qualify with just a GED.
My guess is he stretched the truth and the military spokes... "person" is dancing around it by saying, or actually not saying, what Snowden was doing when his legs were broken.
[Unless you’re Bill Clinton or John Kerry, in which case a mysterious fire breaks out in the warehouse.]
They did have a fire that got a bunch of records but the military was able to reconstruct them by tracking down duplicates from every command an individual had spent time at. This had to be labor intensive but at the time a lot of veterans were accusing the VA of burning the warehouse so they could cheat people out of their benefits.
And you’re right—a lot of “Vietnam” thespians used that fire to explain why their exploits, or even a record of their enlistment, couldn’t be documented.
It's interesting that the FBI (H0lder) initiated the request.
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