Take that Fox News 1 YEAR AGO 8 MOUTHS BEFOR YOU GUYS WHEN YOU WHERE LOOKING AT BRITNEY OR KIM KARDIONS RT WAS DOING REAL REPORTING
Focs was on Apr 13 2013 RTS was on May 8 2012 1 year and a day late shows you where there interst lies now i dont take me worng fox can be ok form time to time but OMG did that Punt this one big time
Mr. Snowden said his decision to leak N.S.A. documents developed gradually, dating back at least to his time working as a technician in the Geneva station of the C.I.A. His experiences there, Mr. Snowden said, fed his doubts about the intelligence community, while also convincing him that working through the chain of command would only lead to retribution.
He disputed an account in The New York Times last week reporting that a derogatory comment placed in his personnel evaluation while he was in Geneva was a result of suspicions that he was trying to break in to classified files to which he was not authorized to have access. (The C.I.A. later took issue with the description of why he had been reprimanded.) Mr. Snowden said the comment was placed in his file by a senior manager seeking to punish him for trying to warn the C.I.A. about a computer vulnerability.
Mr. Snowden said that in 2008 and 2009, he was working in Geneva as a
telecommunications information systems officer, handling everything from
information technology and computer networks to maintenance of the
heating and air-conditioning systems. He began pushing for a promotion,
but got into what he termed a “petty e-mail spat” in which he questioned
a senior manager’s judgment.
Several months later, Mr. Snowden said, he was writing his annual
self-evaluation when he discovered flaws in the software of the C.I.A.’s
personnel Web applications that would make them vulnerable to hacking.
He warned his supervisor, he said, but his boss advised him to drop the
matter and not rock the boat. After a technical team also brushed him
off, he said, his boss finally agreed to allow him to test the system to
prove that it was flawed.
He did so by adding some code and text “in a nonmalicious manner” to his
evaluation document that showed that the vulnerability existed, he
said. His immediate supervisor signed off on it and sent it through the
system, but a more senior manager — the man Mr. Snowden had challenged
earlier — was furious and filed a critical comment in Mr. Snowden’s
personnel file, he said.
He said he had considered filing a complaint with the C.I.A.’s inspector
general about what he considered to be a reprisal, adding that he could
not recall whether he had done so or a supervisor had talked him out of
it. A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Snowden’s account of
the episode or whether he had filed a complaint.
But the incident, Mr. Snowden said, convinced him that trying to work
through the system would only lead to punishment. He said he knew of
others who suffered reprisals for what they had exposed, including
Thomas A. Drake, who was prosecuted
for disclosing N.S.A. contracting abuses to The Baltimore Sun. (He met
with Mr. Snowden in Moscow last week to present an award to him for his
actions.) And he knew other N.S.A. employees who had gotten into trouble
for embarrassing a senior official in an e-mail chain that included a
line, referring to the Chinese Army, that said, “Is this the P.L.A. or
the N.S.A.?”
Mr. Snowden added that inside the spy agency “there’s a lot of dissent —
palpable with some, even.” But he said that people were kept in line
through “fear and a false image of patriotism,” which he described as
“obedience to authority.”
He said he believed that if he tried to question the N.S.A.’s
surveillance operations as an insider, his efforts “would have been
buried forever,” and he would “have been discredited and ruined.” He
said that “the system does not work,” adding that “you have to report
wrongdoing to those most responsible for it.”
Mr. Snowden said he finally decided to act when he discovered a copy of a
classified 2009 inspector general’s report on the N.S.A.’s warrantless
wiretapping program during the Bush administration. He said he found the
document through a “dirty word search,” which he described as an effort
by a systems administrator to check a computer system for things that
should not be there in order to delete them and sanitize the system.
“It was too highly classified to be where it was,” he said of the
report. He opened the document to make certain that it did not belong
there, and after he saw what it revealed, “curiosity prevailed,” he
said.
After reading about the program, which skirted the existing surveillance
laws, he concluded that it had been illegal, he said. “If the highest
officials in government can break the law without fearing punishment or
even any repercussions at all,” he said, “secret powers become
tremendously dangerous.”
He would not say exactly when he read the report, or discuss the timing
of his subsequent actions to collect N.S.A. documents in order to leak
them. But he said that reading the report helped crystallize his
decision. “You can’t read something like that and not realize what it
means for all of these systems we have,” he said.
Mr. Snowden said that the impact of his decision to disclose information
about the N.S.A. had been bigger than he had anticipated. He added that
he did not control what the journalists who had the documents wrote
about. He said that he handed over the documents to them because he
wanted his own bias “divorced from the decision-making of publication,”
and that “technical solutions were in place to ensure the work of the
journalists couldn’t be interfered with.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html?pagewanted=2
i know theres a rt intervewed with him but i seam to not beabile to find it atm
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