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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

and civilian employees. A large share of the civilians who ran the computers worked under two-year contract to the NSA’s leading civilian contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton. Keith Alexander, the four-star general who headed the NSA from 2005 to 2014, first learned about the impending story in the Guardian on Ju

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

rets that Mr. Snowden changed jobs to steal. In an interview in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on June 15, 2013, he said he sought to work on a Booz Allen contract at the CIA, even at a cut in pay, because it gave him access to secret lists of computers that the NSA was tapping into around the world. H