[rcbdev]

> The Snowden stuff is extraordinarily excerpted to that which a contractor (Snowden) was seeing

I highly recommend you read his autobiography. The typical Beltway career in IT is getting clearance and then coming in as a contractor, there is nothing out of the ordinary here.

Adding to that, he was directly employed by the CIA from 2006 to 2009. The "contractor" line is a really sad attempt to discredit him.

[jjtheblunt]

The point is not discrediting but scoping what he was involved in, which for example does not intersect a different area I know personally.