Posted on 06/24/2013 8:43:26 AM PDT by RummyChick
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 Agencys 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 global online chat last week, Snowden also stated he took pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work.
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.
Snowden is understood to be heading for Ecuador to seek political asylum with the help of WikiLeaks, which claimed to have secured his safe passage to the South American country.
Snowden, who arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, first contacted documentary maker Laura Poitras in January, claiming to have information about the intelligence community. But it was several months later before Snowden met Poitras and two British reporters in the city.
He spent the time collecting a cache of classified documents as a computer systems administrator at Booz Allen Hamilton.
In his interview with the Post, Snowden divulged information that he claimed showed hacking by the NSA into computers in Hong Kong and mainland China.
I did not release them earlier because I dont want to simply dump huge amounts of documents without regard to their content, he said.
I have to screen everything before releasing it to journalists.
Asked if he specifically went to Booz Allen Hamilton to gather evidence of surveillance, he replied: Correct on Booz.
His intention was to collect information about the NSA hacking into the whole world and not specifically Hong Kong and China.
The documents he divulged to the Post were obtained during his tenure at Booz Allen Hamilton in April, he said.
He also signalled his intention to leak more of those documents at a later date.
If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published.
Two days after Snowden broke cover in Hong Kong as the source of the NSA leaks, Booz Allen Hamilton sacked him.
With all of these capabilities there has to be a reason why the Obama adm. isn’t stopping terrorist attacks.
They are trying to create the impression there is very little if any preparation phase of the terrorist attacks.
That is the attack is planned and carried out in short order without any need for a long preparations phase during which the attack could be picked up by the intel community and stopped.
They are trying to make it appear as if the “spontaneous” lie with Benghazi was correct.
This is starting to set off my BS detector.
It’s 16.94 right now. Stock Code BAH.
I don’t know if he is in cahoots with Obama and/or Hillary, but I doubt he has acted alone.
Maybe Snowdon should write a “well-researched fictional novel”. It’s not treason.....yet.....to write a novel, is it?
it might be true..think about this.. The US is pretty scared about what he might have...Feinstein says they have no idea how bad it might be...
So, he might have had access but to me that means he might have had a higher level clearance
Some randon guy just can’t go in and get that kind of clearance.
We know he had been working with the CIA .
I still don’t know what to make of all of it.
The Caryle Group (manages $170B) owns 2/3rds and they sold a minority interest to Mubadala Development Co., an investment fund affiliated with the government of Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates...
https://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/meet-some-of-the-contractors-who-analyze-your-personal-data/
They sold the shares to the Islamists last year.
.45 Long Colt ~:” I dont know if he is in cahoots with Obama and/or Hillary, but I doubt he has acted alone.”
That’s my thought as well !
Right before Snowden “leaked “ this info, Obama was out telling everyone how important the internet social networks had become to the terrorist in planning their attacks.
I’m not much of “just a coincidence” kind of guy when it comes to left wing trash and their talking points.
The left has talking points before something happens, it’s for a reason.
LOL. I'm not disagreeing. I just find use of the word future amusing.
Well to be certain, that is what we are being told. Am not certain here. Something still doesn’t make sense. Maybe it is me.
Kinda like the story that Mercedes has uncontrolled engine ejection as a safety feature.
What did he reveal that we didn’t already know from previous whistleblowers, who one might add stayed and took their punishment because they were true patriots, people like ourselves who only wanted to fix the system and make it less costly than the boondoggle it became...This guy, despite what the MSM and journolists are writing, is a double agent, he confessed it himself. No wonder they called each other comrade in their emails...
That’s interesting. I was on vacation when the Snowden story broke, so I missed that detail. You may be correct. All I’m convinced of at this point is that there is a lot more to the story than meets the eye. I don’t trust any of them.
You mean you don’t believe flying engines make the world safer?
All this attention on Showden telling us what we already knew has to be a ruse or coverup. Can be no other explanation. There maybe are two sets of ruses being run. Anyone with common sense should be suspecting such but our lame-stream drive by media is either too stupid or saying exactly what they are being told to say. I vote the lame-stream drive by media is saying what they are being told to say. Nobody is checking on what the obama crowd is doing and if one tries ... well Katie has a big door well locked you have to try to get through.
To refer to him as a high school drop out is just plain silly.
Just look at the pattern.
Under Clinton the attacks were never stopped by the Clinton adm. using any intel gathered. It was always stopped by someone low level and just by luck.
Under Bush there was 9/11, but it was planned and the preparations were mostly under Clinton. Then the attacks stopped.
Under Obama there is the one attack planned for NYC subway that was stopped but only after the Brits warned Obama and AF 1 had flown over NYC as if there was another attack planned for NYC which there was.
The attempted car bombing in NYC wasn’t stopped, in fact prior to the attack the Obama WH and all his allies on the left including the MSM went into a talking points campaign claiming the TEA Party were the real threat to the country.
When the bomb turned out to be a fertilizer bomb like McVeigh used the left claimed their talking points were correct about the TEA Party.
We’re supposed to believe the terrorist are simply picking up on dem talking points and planning their attacks around them. The attack is just “spontaneous”.
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