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Superhero Snowden Trashed In Absurd WSJ Op-Ed

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Epstein discusses the Fable of Edward Snowden

At the forefront of Epstein's claims is the fact that Snowden lied. "As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his dealings with Russian intelligence," says Epstein.

Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft of secrets from the National Security Agency and his journey to Russia via Hong Kong in 2013, none is more provocative than the claim that he never intended to engage in espionage, and was only a "whistleblower" seeking to expose the overreach of NSA's information gathering. With the clock ticking on Mr. Snowden's chance of a pardon, now is a good time to review what we have learned about his real mission.

Mr. Snowden's theft of America's most closely guarded communication secrets occurred in May 2013, according to the criminal complaint filed against him by federal prosecutors the following month. At the time Mr. Snowden was a 29-year-old technologist working as an analyst-in-training for the consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton at the regional base of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Oahu, Hawaii. On May 20, only some six weeks after his job there began, he failed to show up for work, emailing his supervisor that he was at the hospital being tested for epilepsy.

This excuse was untrue. Mr. Snowden was not even in Hawaii. He was in Hong Kong. He had flown there with a cache of secret data that he had stolen from the NSA.

Well la-de-friggin da. The idiocy of those opening paragraphs is obvious to the world.


www.universityofreason.com/a/29887/KWADzukm