re: #17 Norbrook

One of the “interesting” things in the report is this:

I think this counts as “let’s try to close the barn door after that big horse took off through it. “

More seriously, given the number of “holes” in Snowden’s credentials, and his willingness to fudge his qualifications, it really does raise more questions about just how someone gets a security clearance these days. I remember being put through the wringer for mine, and I wasn’t anywhere near “highly classified materials” as part of my job.

I did not even bother applying for the NSA even with a master’s degree in Russian in 1983 because my entire personal record was too suspect: they wanted a complete list of everywhere I had ever lived, for me, that included “various freinds’ sofas in Phoenix, Flagstaff and Sedona” and “the back of a pickup parked somewhere off Arizona State Highway 87”…