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The New York Times is reporting:
Edward J. Snowden says he was not merely a "low-level analyst" writing computer code for American spies, as President Obama and other administration officials have portrayed him. Instead, he says, he was a trained spy who worked under assumed names overseas for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
Mr. Snowden's claims were made in a television interview to be broadcast Wednesday evening by NBC News. They added a new twist to the yearlong public relations battle between the administration and Mr. Snowden, who is living under asylum in Moscow to escape prosecution for leaking thousands of classified files detailing extensive American surveillance programs at home and abroad.
"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," Mr. Snowden told Brian Williams of NBC News, in an excerpt released in advance of the full interview.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 01 2014, @11:40PM
It would make sense that Snowden, aka "Snowed in" would serve as a martyr.
But why? Didn't the rest of you think it was suspicious that Petraeus [wikipedia.org] was railroaded out so quickly and suspiciously? There is an internal struggle going on, and we have to blow the lid off that bitch before malevolent interests serve to enslave the American people.
the Evill force working against the best interests of the American people is so powerfull that it had to be exposed in this manner. It was no accident, it is indicative of an internal power struggle.
Cut the head off the snake, and the tail will wriggle some but not too long. Deprive their data-centers of water, deprive them of resources, splinter the CIA and legislate against the NSA. It's your duty as American citizens, people.
And those of you who don't live in America, resist American influence lest you be enslaved.