{"id":48986,"date":"2014-05-28T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48986"},"modified":"2014-05-28T07:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:15:26","slug":"snowden-still-embellishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48986","title":{"rendered":"Snowden still embellishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anon in Jax sends us a link to CNN<\/a> which reports that Edward Snowden did an interview with NBC Nightly News during which he tries to enhance his creds with the American people;<\/p>\n

“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word — in that I lived and worked undercover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that I’m not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine,” Snowden said.
\nGreenwald on privacy and journalism
\nPhotos: NSA leaker Edward Snowden Photos: NSA leaker Edward Snowden
\nSnowden questions Putin on camera<\/p>\n

“Now, the government might deny these things. They might frame it in certain ways, and say, oh, well, you know, he’s a low-level analyst.<\/p>\n

“But what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to use one position that I’ve had in a career, here or there, to distract from the totality of my experience, which is that I’ve worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, undercover, overseas.<\/p>\n

“I’ve worked for the National Security Agency, undercover, overseas. And I’ve worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency as a lecturer at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world.”<\/p>\n

Snowden continued: “So when they say I’m a low-level systems administrator, that I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’d say it’s somewhat misleading.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, like he tried to tell us<\/a> that he “trained for Special Forces” when in actuality, he never made it through basic combat training in the Army – you know the training that everyone goes through to be a soldier. He dropped out of high school, he dropped out community college, finally opting to get a GED. And now we’re supposed to believe that he was a James Bond spy and that he was so good at it that he trained other spies.<\/p>\n

Then he uses the story that we’ve heard so often here, that the government will deny it because he’s so super-secret and a special snowflake. Or maybe he’s just a lying sack of shit who has a high opinion of himself and he thinks we’re so stupid we’ll believe him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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