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lls for IT jobs from outside contractors. So it had no need for employing a twenty-two-year-old dropout who did not meet its requisites. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that “he had
o the NSA’s king- dom of global surveillance. Booz Allen held those keys. “He targeted my company because we enjoy more access than other companies,” Booz Allen’s vice-chairman Michael McConnell said with the bene- fit of hindsight. As a result of the theft, he appraised, “an entire gen- eration of intelligence
e America and go public, he could serve as a near-perfect umbrella. “Snowden may have carried out of the NSA many more documents than he knew about,” Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA station chief, said. It @ could also account for the disparity between the claims of Snowden @ and the NSA damage assessment as to t
know they were gone.” However, he was not among the limited number of individuals at the center who had access to these documents. Both the NSA’s and Booz Allen’s employment records showed that Snowden had not yet completed his requisite on-the-job training when he carried out the theft. Consequently, he had no
ogatory comment. He was also threatened with a punitive investigation unless he agreed to quietly resign from the CIA. “It was not a stellar career,” Tyler Drumheller, former CIA station chief told me in 2014. The job in Geneva did have its benefits, however. It provided him a generous housing and travel allowance
were gone,” but, as it turned out, he was not among the limited number of individuals at the Center who had access to these documents, The NSA’s and Booz Allen’s employment records showed that Snowden had not yet completed his requisite on-the- job training at the National Threat Operations Center in Hawaii wh
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Booz Allen
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Oliver Stone
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Mitch McConnell
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Department of Justice
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Hawaii
LOCATIONMorell
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Barton Gellman
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Assange
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Ewen MacAskill
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Barack Obama
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Edward Snowden
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Jacob Appelbaum
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Micah Lee
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Laura Poitras
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Glenn Greenwald
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Woody Allen
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James Clapper
PERSONLindsay
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Ireland
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