Omg, please do not use Edward Snowden as an example of 'whistle blowing' or any such public service. He was a nobody loser who's grandpa and family got him a job as a lowly IT admin in the CIA, which he needed 6 mos of remedial training to perform. But he screwed that job up by being arrogant and whiny and undisciplined, violating securi…
Omg, please do not use Edward Snowden as an example of 'whistle blowing' or any such public service. He was a nobody loser who's grandpa and family got him a job as a lowly IT admin in the CIA, which he needed 6 mos of remedial training to perform. But he screwed that job up by being arrogant and whiny and undisciplined, violating security and other policies. But again, family prevents the 'derog' report he should have had that would have ended his security clearance. Instead, continued to have a security clearance (this failure by the CIA has never been accounted for publicly). This facilitates his peddling himself as a potential contractor for Dell, Booz Allen etc. he was not a spy of any sort, nor even some kind of hacker or accomplished tech person. He did lowly admin functions, the equivalent of being a digital janitor. He was a loser with very few friends. He dropped out of school at 15 and just stayed home and played video games. Watch this video for more detail on this little loser.
He created a false online persona on Ars Technica and eventually was repping himself as a CIA spy, lol. And many other lies. He's a fabulist, you can see this in how he lied to Poytres and Greenwald about his role and background as an intel agent, which he had to correct later (there is no disputing he lied through his teeth about himself). He also never once engaged any of the whistleblowing channels available to him, as say Binney did - a true American hero. And then most of what he released had nothing to do with domestic surveillance, which is the 'crime' he justified his actions upon. In fact, he did vast damage to us and our allies. The domestic surveillance stuff was also not as clean cut as he presents it.
If you want to know the truth about that traitorous little loser. read How America Lost Her Secrets by Edward J. Epstein. To date, he's the only serious investigative journalist to not give Snowden a tongue bath.
Perhaps leaking gvmt illegal surveillance 'secrets' was Snowden's actual job/role in all this. Looking at Snowden movie, the scene form Hong Kong hotel.. why Greenwald & Co had to call White House and ask whether the story (leak) can (is allowed to) go life? Really? Wtf? What if WH said 'No'? Circus, Smoke and Mirrors and some.
The press regularly coordinates with the DoJ/DoD/CIA and/or the WH on leaks like this to cuz - shocker - it's illegally obtained information. You spin it like they pushed it but that's not what happened at all. This is just errant BS, throwing more dust in the air.
Omg, please do not use Edward Snowden as an example of 'whistle blowing' or any such public service. He was a nobody loser who's grandpa and family got him a job as a lowly IT admin in the CIA, which he needed 6 mos of remedial training to perform. But he screwed that job up by being arrogant and whiny and undisciplined, violating security and other policies. But again, family prevents the 'derog' report he should have had that would have ended his security clearance. Instead, continued to have a security clearance (this failure by the CIA has never been accounted for publicly). This facilitates his peddling himself as a potential contractor for Dell, Booz Allen etc. he was not a spy of any sort, nor even some kind of hacker or accomplished tech person. He did lowly admin functions, the equivalent of being a digital janitor. He was a loser with very few friends. He dropped out of school at 15 and just stayed home and played video games. Watch this video for more detail on this little loser.
He created a false online persona on Ars Technica and eventually was repping himself as a CIA spy, lol. And many other lies. He's a fabulist, you can see this in how he lied to Poytres and Greenwald about his role and background as an intel agent, which he had to correct later (there is no disputing he lied through his teeth about himself). He also never once engaged any of the whistleblowing channels available to him, as say Binney did - a true American hero. And then most of what he released had nothing to do with domestic surveillance, which is the 'crime' he justified his actions upon. In fact, he did vast damage to us and our allies. The domestic surveillance stuff was also not as clean cut as he presents it.
If you want to know the truth about that traitorous little loser. read How America Lost Her Secrets by Edward J. Epstein. To date, he's the only serious investigative journalist to not give Snowden a tongue bath.
Perhaps leaking gvmt illegal surveillance 'secrets' was Snowden's actual job/role in all this. Looking at Snowden movie, the scene form Hong Kong hotel.. why Greenwald & Co had to call White House and ask whether the story (leak) can (is allowed to) go life? Really? Wtf? What if WH said 'No'? Circus, Smoke and Mirrors and some.
The press regularly coordinates with the DoJ/DoD/CIA and/or the WH on leaks like this to cuz - shocker - it's illegally obtained information. You spin it like they pushed it but that's not what happened at all. This is just errant BS, throwing more dust in the air.