This Snowden guy has a few cracks in his resume.

[MADem]

73. I read somewhere that he suffered SEIZURES. That he had EPILEPSY...

Yes, here it is: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/09/edward-snowden-guardian-interview/2405873/

Snowden, who learned after seizures last year that he suffers from epilepsy, is a former technical assistant for the CIA who spent the past four years at the NSA as a contract employee of several companies, including Dell and Booz Allen, the newspaper reported. He copied the documents last week at NSA's Hawaii office and then told a supervisor he needed time off for medical treatment, the newspaper said.

I don't know if he's on depakote (common anti-seizure drug) but it also has an off-label use as a treatment for bipolar/schizophrenic affect. Works well with some patients, too. All that was pure speculation, and it was the "seizures" thing that triggered my memory of the off-label use of the drug (I know someone who is using the drug in this fashion, to good effect, too, when she stays on the drug--when she goes off, she gets grandiose--her family is now attuned to notice the signs and make sure she stays "medically compliant&quot .

So...yeah. It crossed my mind that he may have been using a fake diagnosis of epilepsy to get that drug, and actually be on the med for another reason. With a clearance that high, surely he'd have to do the old lie detector every now and again...? How the hell would he pass that? Nerves of steel? Sociopathic personality? Valium?

I found your comments very interesting and elucidative. I have to say, I feel the same way you do--that this smells like someone is targeting OBAMA, and if this guy knows what he grandiosely claims to know, he could be a real problem and jeopardize the lives of contacts and operatives in the field.

I'd love it if he had next to nothing and he was a grade A bullshitter. I don't think that's the case, though...