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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: 3, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Monday June 02 2014, @12:26AM
> I work for a company that has a SCIF in the building. Kinda creepy, actually.
A SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility [wikipedia.org]) is a just an area cleared to hold specific classified information - it doesn't even have to be sooper-dooper classified information either, just compartmented.
There is really nothing special about them other than the hassle of extra access controls. On more than one occasion, working alone in a SCIF, I pissed in a bottle rather than go through the laborious process of locking up the area just to walk down the hall and take a leak and then open it back up again a minute later.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday June 02 2014, @04:40AM
You admit that you leaked while in a SCIF? Did you also blow a whistle while doing it?
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