[bronxville]

...”New information discovered by Reuters about Snowden’s employment record, online postings and education comes as U.S. lawmakers grill intelligence officials about how a 29-year-old high school dropout managed to gain access to such top secrets as the NSA’s electronic surveillance programs.

According to sources briefed on the matter, 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....

...One of his postings, however, dealt with the now familiar issue of corporate compliance with government eavesdropping programs. On February 4, 2010, while working for Dell, Snowden commented on a discussion about a major technology company that allegedly was giving the U.S. government access to its computer servers.

“It really concerns me how little this sort of corporate behavior bothers those outside of technology circles,” Snowden wrote. “Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types.””
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-usa-security-snowden-online-idUSBRE95D02320130614

I still want to know why they hired this person with so little education. I know some people here excuse it because he was a computer nerd but I know many computer experts who’d have loved that job.

If it’s a classifed agency how come this guy knew about it. Where did he hear about it? This guy is also a “gamer” - “An avid gamer, he posted on the ethics of video game piracy in 2003”... not unlike Stephenson-Benghazi who was also an avid gamer. Can’t get my head around what’s really going on but it sure smells.

[bronxville]

Scrub the “classifed agency” stuff as I misinterpretated the meaning.

[Chickensoup]

I still want to know why they hired this person with so little education. I know some people here excuse it because he was a computer nerd but I know many computer experts who’d have loved that job.

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Why on earth are you focusing on this non-issue. Mark Steyn and Limbaugh did not go to college.

Probably the fact that he wasn’t brainwashed in college is why he was able to tell right from wrong and thing out of the box. He wasn’t a slave.

Education has nothing to do with ethics.

[manc]

who cares about him, it’s what he said what is more dangerous and damaging.

Pointing at him will only take the real issue off the front pages which Obama wants

[hoosiermama]

Have said from beginning he was/ is CIA. Had a teacher in high school who worked for the agency. Not unusual to have a cover job The Bengauzi post was near the CIA station. Stevens iirc had CIA ties on his résumé

Snowden knew the Hong Kong CIA station was located just down the street from hotel at the embassy. If they wanted him they would have picked him up before he checked out the next day

Wouldn’t surprise me if video was recorded earlier and he was still in HI

[familyop]

"I still want to know why they hired this person with so little education. I know some people here excuse it because he was a computer nerd but I know many computer experts who’d have loved that job"

Was that intended to be ironic humor? I've watched quite a few of the more highly credentialed "experts" reinstall images on their corporations' hard drives daily to overwrite viruses. There are also many credentialed sysadmins from Iran, China and the like. Can't get a capable admin for secure systems from a university program alone and certainly not from a well known "IT" corporation (been in many of them, laughed at that).