Edward Snowden Was Suspected Years Ago

[Atreides]

         

It turned out that Edward Snowden’s former boss warned his CIA bosses four years ago that he thought the techie was a security risk.

Media sources somehow managed to get their paws on Edward’s CIA personal file and revealed that his supervisor had written a derogatory report back in 2009. The report read that the boss noticed a distinct change in Edward’s behavior and work habits and suspected him of abstracting documents.

Indeed, the CIA suspected Edward was trying to break into classified PC files and took a decision to send him home from his foreign assignment. However, the red flags were apparently ignored and Snowden left the CIA to turn into a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA).

It seems that the supervisor’s warning, along with the CIA’s suspicions, weren’t forwarded to the NSA or its contractors. As a result, his personal file surfaced only after the investigators started looking at Snowden’s record. This was when the well-known leaks began.

According to media reports, the story emerged after talks to half a dozen law enforcement, intelligence and Congressional officials, who had direct knowledge of the supervisor’s report. As we can see, officials admitted the spooks missed opportunity to review Edward’s top-secret clearance or at least put his future work at the National Security Agency under much greater scrutiny. Guilty, to put it shortly.