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Originally Posted by fintstone View Post
No. The federal agency hires a contractor to do their IT (not by choice, but because elected officials demand it). The contractor hires "losers like Snowden".

Snowden didn't do collection and analysis. He was a low level IT guy.

When you run a pro baseball team in a tough league, but the voters, through Congress, require you use little leaguers in key positions...disaster cannot help but happen.
So, the government hired him as an IT guy. The government is still responsible for his employment, and his access to the information, and the security of that information.
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