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NSA Leaker Outs Himself: Edward Snowden

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goddamnedfrank6/09/2013 3:00:47 pm PDT

re: #387 Decatur Deb

Where did he get his clearances? TS background check takes some time.

I don’t know, but Booz Allen admitted he’s an employee of theirs. He could be embellishing / lying about a lot of things, for instance the salary still sounds really high, but the story about him being a dropout has been corrected to his having a GED. If he was tested and found to have a real aptitude for digital security systems then it really is plausible that he would be recruited by such a contractor. Also, nobody knows what kind of technical certificates he holds, they just assume it can’t be any because they erroneously think he’s a high school dropout, which is a complete non-sequitor anyways. The technical sector has a history of not standing on ceremony, if you show up and demonstrate you’ve got chops a lot of people will hire you.