NSA CIA clearly not talking….
Gee, if only someone had seen the signs of this coming….
Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man’s behavior and work habits, as well as a troubling suspicion.
The C.I.A. suspected that Mr. Snowden was trying to break into classified computer files to which he was not authorized to have access, and decided to send him home, according to two senior American officials.
But the red flags went unheeded. Mr. Snowden left the C.I.A. to become a contractor for the National Security Agency, and four years later he leaked thousands of classified documents. The supervisor’s cautionary note and the C.I.A.’s suspicions apparently were not forwarded to the N.S.A. or its contractors, and surfaced only after federal investigators began scrutinizing Mr. Snowden’s record once the documents began spilling out, intelligence and law enforcement officials said.
“It slipped through the cracks,” one veteran law enforcement official said of the report.
Another Hasan, everyone too afraid to speak up.
Category: Politics
Hell, you go for most gov’t jobs and your entire life is laid bare and incidents that happened long ago are questioned. But be suspected of attempting to obtain access computers illegally to obtain classified information and the answer you give for “So, why did you leave your job with CIA?” is accepted at face value. Great. Just great.
Cracks, hell. You could fly a 777 through the holes that were there.
Just as teachers are too afraid to punish children for fear of parental lawsuits, now employers (even the federal government) is too afraid to make permanent records for fear of discrimination lawsuits.
Just like Hassan…
No wonder it’s damned near impossible to get into a company even if you have a job. It’s not just the shitty economy, it’s a prospective employer making DAMNED sure that a recruit is a good fit, lest it be nearly impossible to fire them later without risking a major lawsuit as a result.
At least this supervisor did his job. That’s saying a lot.
In Iraq we had an S-6 officer who was paranoid about the Bn Cdr’s perception of him, so he planted a program into the BC’s computer that caused all of the BC’s email in and out to be sent to a hotmail address he set up for the purpose. The first time the BC tried to say “I’m not trying to do that” the S-6 said, “yes you are, let me show you” and pulled out his computer showing all the email traffic from the BC he was reading. Yes, really. He was kicked out of country, sent home and discharged from the Army, then got a contractor job with an Engineer unit in Afghanistan as (wait for it…) a Network Administrator for their battalion. Yes, really. After 6-months the paperwork caught up with him and they found out (By some “mysterious” happenstance) that he was kicked out of Iraq and why, so they fired him. But he still had the job for six months.
I have a unit full of Senior NCOs who are passive resistance primadonnas who don’t do anything and get away with it constantly. But their NCOERs don’t show that they can’t manage 15 Soldiers, let alone a Company full of them. Its ridiculous. But again, this supervisor did his part, its on “HR” for both to communicate about something this significant, not just carry on.