Stand back for a minute and look over the ‘vast’ level of maturity in Snowden. He never finishes high school...GED guy. He goes off to the Army, but is let go at some point because of physical issues, so we are told. He retreats to his hometown area around Fort Meade, where he becomes a security guard...mostly because he has a security clearance left over from the Army episode he never finished.
Snowden signs up for some computer classes locally, and eventually is picked up (no degree, just a couple of classes) as a IT-expert for a company doing gov’t work. Then, the CIA steps in and hires him to do an assignment in Switzerland. No one ever explained this giant step....a high school drop-out with a GED certificate...no real demonstrated history....hired by the CIA.
So he goes off and discovers the whole job is about getting into the banking structure of the Swiss banks. Manipulation, breaking into personal email accounts, blackmail, etc. Based on comments....Edward was severely disenchanted with this mission, and felt morally corrupted by it. Everything would point to Snowden likely corrupted at this point as being anti-US gov’t.
My personal guess is that Ed is a gamer, and some Russian KGB happened upon this whole circumstance in Switzerland and wandered just how far they could drag Ed along and get him into the right positions. So a gaming ‘friend’ was established, and kept working on Ed to follow a certain trail.
Ed comes back to the US....gets himself into positions with access, and the rest is history.
On the maturity scale....Ed is thirteen years old. I don’t see any woman desiring a relationship with the guy. From a hiring prospect....why would you ever hire the guy? He’d come in on day one to get the right passwords and get deep into your company’s secrets. He is mostly standing there to be adored by the Germans, and one day wake up to realize that he’s led mostly a loser life.
Actually, he had a girlfriend in Hawaii who is really cute in some of her pictures, but not so cute in others.
According to her friends, she fell really hard for Snowden and was devastated when he bolted to Hong Kong and then Russia.
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” the CIA steps in and hires him to do an assignment in Switzerland. No one ever explained this giant step....a high school drop-out with a GED certificate...no real demonstrated history....hired by the CIA.”
Maybe they hired him because he looked unobtrusive and would blend in well with the rest of the people he would be working around. He’s certainly a drifter through life, I’ll say that.
The alienated type who apparently are ripe for manipulation.
Of course, I don't have access to Anna's BAC when she posted that.
But she's not just any random hottie. She has also been linked to higher-up boyfriends, such as the emcee of 9May's military festivities in Red Square.
I think you should watch this interview.
Then come back and tell me if you still believe that it's a thirteen year-old's maturity.
Could care less about Snowden’s personal life. Just want to know when the NSA data base containing information on law abiding US citizens will be destroyed.