Exclusive: Snowden Swiped Password From NSA Coworker

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/exclusive-snowden-swiped-password-nsa-coworker-n29006

BY MICHAEL ISIKOFF
NBC News
February 12th 2014

A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his 
security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to 
use his personal log-in credentials to access classified information, 
according to an agency memo obtained by NBC News.

In addition, an active duty member of the U.S. military and a contractor 
have been barred from accessing National Security Agency facilities after 
they were "implicated" in actions that may have aided Snowden, the memo 
states. Their status is now being reviewed by their employers, the memo 
says.

The Feb. 10 memo, sent to congressional intelligence and judiciary 
committees this week, provides the first official account of a sweeping 
NSA internal inquiry aimed at identifying intelligence officials and 
contractors who may been responsible for one of the biggest security 
breaches in U.S. history. The memo is unclassified but labeled "for 
official use only."

While the memo's account is sketchy, it suggests that, contrary to 
Snowden’s statements, he used an element of trickery to retrieve his trove 
of tens of thousands of classified documents: "At Snowden’s request," the 
civilian NSA employee, who is not identified by name, entered his password 
onto Snowden’s computer terminal, the memo states.

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