he returned home from Fort Benning, Georgia, he was twenty-one. He remained unemployed for several months before taking a job as a security guard at the University of Maryland’s Cen- ter for Advanced Study of Language, where he was given his first security clearance. Snowden had to take a polygraph exam to get the job. Accord

orces, he returned to his mother’s condominium in Elliott City, where he remained unemployed for several months. He took a job as a security guard at the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Study of Language. According to his Ars Technica postings, he worked the night shift from six in the evening to six in the mornin