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Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance

• slg 13y ago
  This isn't going to help the perception of him in the general public or possibly in any eventual trial. What he did sounds a lot closer to espionage if you know that his whole plan was premeditated and he spent months putting it into action and gathering classified material.
  • e3pi 13y ago
    The remarkable Nicholas Easter, with Marley, did the same vast premeditated infiltration of a similar monolithic evil in John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury'. Anybody who can get the entire courtroom to spontaneously stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance, should receive the heartfelt support of all Americans.
  • mpyne 13y ago
    Agreed. It's different than "just doing your job" and uncovering evidence of waste, fraud and abuse. What it sounds like instead is that Snowden decided there must be waste, fraud, and abuse going on and took it upon himself to go on a fishing expedition to find evidence supporting that; exactly the kind of thing we stridently guard against the government doing to us. Now I'm wondering whether Greenwald being so incredibly off about PRISM itself was due to Greenwald being not technically savvy, or due to Snowden himself misunderstanding what PRISM did and leading Greenwald and WaPo astray. And if Snowden was misunderstanding, was it because he was incompetent, or because the evidence he found seemed to support the conclusion he'd already come up with?