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In reply to the discussion: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' [View all]timdog44
(1,388 posts)33. Let me repost here what I posted elsewhere.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a technical contractor and a whistleblower who released classified material on the United States National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program.
Personal life
In 2003, Edward Snowden enlisted in the United States Army. He was discharged after breaking both of his legs in a training accident. He then went to work as a security guard for a covert NSA facility at the University of Maryland. After that he went to the CIA, where he worked on IT security. In 2007 the CIA stationed him with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for maintaining computer network security. Leaving the CIA in 2009, he worked for a private contractor inside an NSA facility on a United States military base in Japan.
At the time of his departure from the US in May 2013, he was working for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton inside of the NSA in Hawaii. He described his life as "very comfortable", living with his girlfriend and earning a salary of "roughly $200,000." He arrived in Hong Kong and began living in a hotel room, where he provided an interview to The Guardian.
The Chinese lost a valuable asset and the Muslim are calling him a Hero ....
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Jonathan Black - Director, Corporate Affairs, University of Oxford
Rohit Bhagat - Global Chief Operating Officer, Barclays Global Investors
Sir (Francis) Christopher Buchan Bland - Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and former Chairman of British Telecommunications PLC
Chipper Boulas - Venture advisor in Paris, France and former Vice President of Corporate Strategy, eBay
Jonathan S. Bush - President, CEO, and Co-founder of athenaHealth
Art Collins - Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.
Tim Collins - Founder and Chief Executive of Ripplewood Holdings
Edward C. Davies (Ted) - Managing Partner, Unisys Federal Systems
Karen Fawcett - Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia
Richard Gay - Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations for VH1 and CMT, MTV Networks
Rhonda Germany - Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Honeywell
Patrick Gorman - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (SVP/CISO), Bank of America
Gerry Horkan - Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Yahoo! Inc.
Paul Idzik - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Barclays PLC
Abigail Johnson - President of Fidelity Investments
Raymond J. Lane - General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, former President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation and chairman of Hewlett-Packard
Edward J. O'Hare - Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration's's Federal Acquisition Service; former Assistant Commissioner, General Services Administration, and former VP at Dynanet
Torsten Oltmanns - currently Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Assistant Prof. at University of Innsbruck
Todd Y. Park - Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Athena Health
Mark DeSantis - Chief Executive Officer of ANGLE Technology Consulting and Management and former CEO and President of Formation3 LLC
Stan Scoggins - Vice President of Worldwide Digital Assets, Universal Studios
Owen Nieberg - Chief Operating Officer, All About Braces
Deven Sharma - President, Standard & Poor's and VP for global strategy at The McGraw-Hill Companies
Michael Wolf - Former president and COO of MTV Networks
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' [View all]
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
OP
@AP: BREAKING: Newspaper identifies source of U.S. surveillance programs as intelligence agency cont
Hissyspit
Jun 2013
#1
Holy SH#T..... "The Federation of Secret Law" How can we know that what they are doing
midnight
Jun 2013
#3
Getting the permission is the thing that makes this secret more legit in my mind...
midnight
Jun 2013
#82
There is a difference between Candidate Obama who said things he believed. . .
Nanjing to Seoul
Jun 2013
#86
If President Obama will not do what is right out of fear for his life then we might as well
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#133
He is a whistle blower in the sense that he has exposed a secret program that is
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#12
I think some of the more independent Congressional members would be interested.
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#78
I thnk it would be a fine line if they revealed classified information during one minute
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#117
There seems to be some controversy in reference to the point I excerpted. Apparently
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#122
I'm not necessarily saying what he did was wrong. But, becasue he did not go through the
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#130
Unfortunately, he only had two choices to gain whistle blower status. Either inform
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#145
By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications
Katashi_itto
Jun 2013
#115
I don't trust this SCOTUS with its conservative majority to do anything right.
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#31
Google the phrase "fisa court rubber stamp" and you will get better than 23,000 hits. n/t
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#43
I could also google the phrase "cute kitten" and get 68,500,000 results. nt
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#44
"Quantity of Google hits does not equal quality or truthfulness of information." Bingo!!
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#77
Except Obama stated that the feds arent listening in to everyones phonecalls but
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#90
One thing I know, he leaked confidential classified information to the news media. That is a crime
still_one
Jun 2013
#59
You really don't seem to realize there is no difference between govt. and corps.
Psephos
Jun 2013
#55
I mean you no ill, but you're naive. Neither has oversight. And they have partnered up.
Psephos
Jun 2013
#70
The truth will eventually come out. For now I am giving him the benefit of the doubt
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#30
Oh so am I as its to early to tell but if he does you can bet he will be moving up to
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#36
Just because a former CIA officer is saying that doesn't put me in the minority.
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#105
Maybe not....he could be depressed, and thinking that he's on a dramatic personal journey
MADem
Jun 2013
#71
Paul Krugman: Government Tilting Towards ‘Authoritarian Surveillance’ State
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#29
I also agree with Krugman, and I don't understand why anyone would trust Rogers on this issue...
deurbano
Jun 2013
#46
"The U.S. needs to remove nuclear weapons from Turkey and all their allies"
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#42
I sure have mixed feelings on what this man has done. You know when you work
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2013
#57
Its nearly 1:40 am here so am tired to forgive me but I dont see what that video does to prove
cstanleytech
Jun 2013
#106
What is he implying? That the big, evil black Muslim from Kenya is going to kill him?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2013
#119
It seems on a random unscientific poll.....the public is siding with.....
LovingA2andMI
Jun 2013
#121