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June 9, 2013

Good Question

Farhad Manjoo asks, in this Slate article, how can we trust the NSA to respect our privacy when it made its most sensitive documents available to Edward Snowden?

According to the Guardian, Snowden is a 29-year-old high-school dropout who trained for the Army Special Forces before an injury forced him to leave the military. His IT credentials are apparently limited to a few "computer" classes he took at a community college in order to get his high-school equivalency degree—courses that he did not complete. His first job at the NSA was as a security guard. Then, amazingly, he moved up the ranks of the United States' national security infrastructure: The CIA gave him a job in IT security. He was given diplomatic cover in Geneva. He was hired by Booz Allen Hamilton, the government contractor, which paid him $200,000 a year to work on the NSA's computer systems.

Filed under Libertarianism,Public Safety | permalink | June 9, 2013 at 10:48 PM

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