so was I....got the kit and everything
Posted on 05/28/2014 7:46:03 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
Edward J. Snowden says he was not merely a “low-level analyst” writing computer code for American spies, as President Obama and other administration officials have portrayed him. Instead, he says, he was a trained spy who worked under assumed names overseas for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas — pretending to work in a job that I’m not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine,” Mr. Snowden told Brian Williams of NBC News, in an excerpt released in advance of the full interview.
“They’re trying to use one position that I’ve had in a career here or there to distract from the totality of my experience,” he said, “which is that I’ve worked for the Central Intelligence Agency undercover overseas, I’ve worked for the National Security Agency undercover overseas and I’ve worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency as a lecturer at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world.”
“The reality is I never intended to end up in Russia,” he said in a second excerpt broadcast on NBC’s “Today Show.” “I had a flight booked to Cuba onwards to Latin America, and I was stopped because the United States government decided to revoke my passport and trap me in Moscow Airport. So when people ask why are you in Russia, I say, ‘Please ask the State Department.' ”
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That’ll come as a surprise to his wife, Morgan Fairchild.
I was a spy too when I was younger. I even got a couple girls to believe it.
Trained by whom to spy for which country?
This fool is trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame into 20 minutes.
Hang him for treason.
One of my dogs is a spy, too. Actually, they both are. And the cat, but that goes without saying.
so was I....got the kit and everything
“I was a spy”
What a pant-load of stinking obama.
Harry: [holding Simon at the edge of an aquaduct] Son of a bitch, Did you think you can elude us forever, Carlos, huh?
Simon: Hey, you got the wrong guy! My name's Simon! Just let me go. There's no need to kill me. I haven't seen your...
[Harry and Gib remove their masks]
Simon: face. No, no, no I didn't see it, I didn't see it! [realizes that it is Harry]
Simon: Oh, it's you! Hey, you still interested in that 'Vette at all?
Gib: Hey, Carlos? Game's over. Your career as an international terrorist is well documented.
Simon: No...
Gib: -Oh, yeah.
Simon: No...
Gib: Oh, yeah!
Simon: No!
Gib: OH, YEAH!
Simon: No, I sell cars! That's all! C'mon, I'm not a terrorist. I'm actually a complete coward, if I ever saw a gun, I'd...
Harry: [Harry takes his gun out and points it in Simon's face]
Simon: [Whining and pleading] Oh God, no, please don't kill me. I'm not a spy. I'm nothing. I'm navel lint! I have to lie to women to get laid, and I don't score much. I got a little dick, it's pathetic!
[Harry and Gib gave Simon a weird look, then Simon pees his pants]
Simon: Wha, uh, oh God. Would a spy pee himself, huh? Please, I'm not worth a bullet. Oh, mercy sir!
Harry: [Disgusted] Get the fuck out of here. Just go, just beat it.
Simon: No, no, as soon as I turn, you're gonna shoot me! You're gonna shoot me, you're gonna shoot me, you're gonna shoot me!
Gib: [Gib and Harry get into their van] Get lost, dipshit. [fires a few rounds into the ground near Simon]
Well I did get seduced by a young lady who turned out to be a North Korean spy once.
She was cute but not much future in it.
The cynicism about Obama and his administration can lead to the election of a constitutional conservative president, if the RINO backstabbers stop treating us as the enemy.
Snowden is a patriot. He gave up a comfortable life when he exposed the NSA for what it is.
I agree. The NSA and our gummint needed to be called out on their overreach. 10 years ago I wouldn’t have said that but enough is enough. As to whether he was a spy? Not so sure.
AGREED
“Snowden is a patriot”
That’s warped. He hates this country.
Once he went beyond talking about what the NSA was doing to our citizenry and he went and spillled shit about how we were handling intelligence internationally, he stepped into treason.
F him.
Is it absolute bullshit?
Tell us all, genius, how he got the level of access to obtain the files he released if his position was as previously portrayed. Why did Russia grant some supposed nobody asylum?
You answer that credibly and I will stop poking well deserved ridicule at you.
You are not some lifelong civilian. You are supposed to use that brain housing group for something more than a hat rack.
Is everyone who claims to be a spy what they claim? No.
But in this case, it fills in missing pieces of the story neatly.
That this was nothing new.
BTW, were you ever in st cloud, Mn? I “met” a spy one drunken night.
Fool is right.
With this statement he sure seems to have moved himself from “innocent whistleblower” into the “treason” column.
“That’s warped. He hates this country.”
Let me get this straight:
You are saying that you would have gone along with what the NSA was doing instead of revealing their unConstitutional activities to the public?
How convenient that you have forgotten that he also revealed some of our international intelligence gathering methods.
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