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posted by NCommander on Sunday June 01 2014, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-tangled-web dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday June 02 2014, @04:40AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 02 2014, @04:40AM (#50078) Journal

    On more than one occasion, working alone in a SCIF, I pissed in a bottle rather than ...

    You admit that you leaked while in a SCIF? Did you also blow a whistle while doing it?

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