[stevedub]

Maybe I haven't read every single article but is there anything we know about Mr. Snowden that would have flagged him during this process?

[tekromancr]

Maybe he would have failed the "commie traitor" check /s

[lukifer]

I'm legitimately concerned that anyone who's ever donated to Ron Paul, etc., will never find their way into a position to leak, ever again. And we know they have a lot of data to scrape in filtering out candidates with strong opinions on human rights, rule of law, etc.