@glitterbag,
Quote:You don't have to agree with me, but a contractor stationed in Hawaii for 10 weeks of employment who allegedly collected the entire arsenal of intelligence collection is hard to swallow. Especially for those of us actually retired from the agency.
Sure it is not hard to swallow not at all as a matter of fact.
Long before the internet there have been such large holes in the US government security that people had been able to walk out with large suitcases of top secret information such as Jonathan Pollard and then we have the Walker spy ring where for over 20 years a navy non-commissioned officer and his friends and family was able to give/sell the Russians the encrypted keys to our top level ciphers that control among other things our missile subs communication and such other information as to where our ocean beds sonar listening posts was located. Oh, I forgot the US overall military plans in case of nuclear war with the USSR.
Then we have the case of another college drop out working not for the government but for a contractor selling information about our spy satellite programs by the name of Christopher John Boyce for years.
None of them seems nearly as bright as Snowden.