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It's definitely the Defense Intelligence Agency. They do a lot of intelligence collection. I'm disturbed by Snowden's grandiosity in those statements. He fits
by s_q_b 13y ago
It's definitely the Defense Intelligence Agency. They do a lot of intelligence collection.
I'm disturbed by Snowden's grandiosity in those statements. He fits the personality type interrogators would call a "grand egoist." He exaggerates his individual importance and skills to the point of self-delusion.
Ironically, this package of traits is often found in people of extraordinary skill. He has managed to abscond from the country with thousands of our deepest secrets, and prevent his own capture amidst the biggest manhunt in the history of the world.
But at the same time, he seems to be losing his grip under the pressure. There simply is no way that an individual can guarantee he or she won't give away information under threat of torture or under the manipulation of interrogation. The secrets live in his head, and the operating system that runs on our grey matter is eminently hackable.
Deeply, deeply disturbing rhetoric.