Posted on 06/14/2013 5:18:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
While working for U.S. intelligence agencies, Edward Snowden had another secret identity: an online commentator who anonymously railed against citizen surveillance and corporate greed.
Throughout the eight years that Snowden worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency contractors, he posted hundreds of messages on a public Internet forum under a pseudonym.
"I can't hope to change the way things are going by overtly complaining, writing letters, or blowing things up," Snowden wrote in 2003 in response to a discussion about corporate greed on the Ars Technica online forum.
Snowden was employed by an unidentified classified agency in Washington from 2005 to mid-2006, by the CIA from 2006 to 2009, when he primarily worked overseas, and by Dell Inc from 2009 to 2013, when he worked in the United States and Japan as an NSA contractor.
He was also a prolific commentator on technology forum Ars Technica, posting approximately 750 messages using the screen name "The True HOOHA" from late 2001 to 2012.
Snowden told employers he took computer classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, earned a certificate from the University of Maryland's campus in Tokyo, and expected in 2013 to earn a master's degree in computer security from the University of Liverpool in England.
A Johns Hopkins spokeswoman said she could not find a record of Snowden's attendance but he may have taken correspondence courses for which records are not kept. A Maryland official confirmed Snowden attended at least one summer class. A Liverpool spokeswoman said Snowden registered for an online master's degree in computer security in 2011, but did not complete it.
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LOL
I’ve posted a total of 346 threads and 140,332 replies at FR alone since 2003.
Yes.....I see where the NSA has backlogged your posts which dwarf Snowden’s....:)
This is the best the NSA and CIA can recruit?
“This is the best the NSA and CIA can recruit? “
Apparently, his family has connections to these jobs. That is most likely how he got the job. Nepotism. “Sure my son doesn’t meet any of the qualifications on paper, but he’s smart and he knows the stuff anyway.” “All right, Fred, we’ll try him out. Can you give me a Mulligan on that last shot?”
It's possible NSA doesn't really want to tell us what this guy's job was ~ which might have simply been a cover for a spy.
“While working for spies, Snowden was secretly prolific online”
And so it begins. I’m sure the idiot in chief will personally be directing the drone to get this leaker, uh—movie maker, us—spy.
“Railed against corporate greed”
What kind of lefty could lambaste him and discredit THAT? The critic would have to be a complete status-quo, establishment LICKSPITTLE.
Doesn’t graduate from high school but signs up for Master classes. Something tells me he didn’t finish cause he knew more then the content of class Viewed it as a waste of his time
you know what would be funny? Asking MICHAEL MOORE what he thought about Snowden. Or Matt Damon.
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
A spy donning protective color ~ nothing new in that. Now, what did he really know ~ we need to see that. So far the goodies just aren’t showing up.
From the beginning this reminded me of a movie I saw in the 1980s and many times since, and in fact last week it turned up on one of my cable movie channels and I watched some of it againThe Falcon and the Snowman where his dad was head of security and got him his clearance and job:
Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconry—thus, the nickname “Falcon”—gets a job at a civilian defense contractor (TRW, though it is called “RTX” in the movie) working in the so-called “Black Vault”, a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified U.S. operations in the world. Boyce becomes disillusioned with the U.S. government through his new position, especially after reading a misrouted communiqué dealing with the CIA’s plan to depose the Prime Minister of Australia. Frustrated by this duplicity, Boyce decides to repay his government by passing classified secrets to the Soviets
Michael Moore and Glenn Beck are on the same page on this, dunno if that makes your day or not.
This guy’s background sounds manufactured..
” the eight years that Snowden worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency contractors, he posted hundreds of messages on a public Internet forum” = prolific?
LOL
Prolific? heh...
Actually pretty good compared to some of the people I’ve seen.
I don’t buy Snowden’s story.
I’m still of the opinion this guy is an Obama/Clinton operative and this “leak” was planned as part of the Benghazi cover up.
It’s going to be real hard for anyone that has been saying over and over again that Obama using the NSA to sweep up records is necessary to fight terrorism, to then turn and say Obama/Clinton have been collaborating with terrorist.
It appears to me they are using these scandals to create “conditioned responses” the same way an attorney will use “conditioned responses” to sway a jury.
How come it took so long to catch the little faggot who WAS a criminal...Oops...Sorry..He’s gay. No going after gays or muzzies like Hasan or the Boston bombers...Those are the Obama rules.
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