I really feel like there is something going on in the Snowden story that we haven’t heard yet. In a former life I used to have one of those super-specialized clearances, and I have a friend who has one now, and the amount of investigation that is done is just incompatible with what slipped through here. We would be overrun with spies if the system was that sloppy.

I mean seriously - the FBI talked to my friends and relatives and got names of people I didn’t give them, and interviewed them (startling them very much in the process). I had to have an in depth discussion with an agent - in person - of the couple of times I smoked pot in college.

I just can’t buy that no one noticed how sketchy this guy was.