Re: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

Also:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/10/190320993/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-showed-battlefield-courage

- ferg



On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:

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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