Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

It looks like Edward Snowden gets to join the ranks of Jesselyn
Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney, Bradley Manning. Best of luck to
him....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/10/190293209/who-is-edward-snowden-the-nsa-leaker

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant who has
of explosive leaks about was among "thousands upon thousands" of such
analysts hired to manage and sift through "huge amounts of data,"
NPR's Tom Gjelten .

He's "what we'd normally call a geek," Tom added.

Indeed, about the young man who it says was behind last week's leaks
concerning National Security Agency programs that sweep up data on
phone calls and Internet activity. It paints a portrait of a mediocre
student with a GED degree who joined the Army in 2003, but was
discharged after breaking his legs in a training accident. Snowden
says he later wound up working with the CIA and then a contractor
because he's skilled at computer programming.
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