Contractor fires Snowden from $122,000-a-year job

[struggle4progress]

Jun. 11, 2013 12:29 PM

The consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton issued a statement Tuesday confirming that Edward Snowden, 29, was an employee of the firm for less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii.

The statement says Snowden had a salary rate of $122,000 -- and was terminated Monday "for violations of the firm's code of ethics and firm policy."

Snowden, a former technical analyst for the CIA, revealed Sunday that he was the source of leaks detailing surveillance efforts involving National Security Agency collection of phone and Internet data. He has said he is hiding in Hong Kong.

In an interview with The Guardian last week, Snowden described a comfortable lifestyle and $200,000 salary from Booz Allen ...

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/usatoday/article/2411231

[OnyxCollie]

1. Someone got a new assignment!

Smearing Julian Assange AND Edward Snowden. That's moving up in the world.

[struggle4progress]

3. If you want your views to prevail, don't be cute or coy: provide accurate facts and clear analysis

Mr Snowden may not be the ideal poster boy for you, if you want to organize against the dangers of the national security state, because his story lacks credibility in many ways

For example, community college records show him last enrolled in community college courses in 2005, but he never obtained any degree or certification -- yet he has claimed that by 2007 he was posted by the CIA under diplomatic cover in Geneva

Similarly, he has claimed a $200K salary at BAH, but BAH says his salary was only a bit over half that

Such details might suggest he is not terribly careful about providing facts accurately and so might call into question other claims of his, such as his claim that "... Sitting at my desk I .. had the authority to wiretap anyone ... even the president ..."

[KansDem]

2. From $200,000 to $122,000, eh?

That's $78,000: 2.2 Costco jobs or 5 Walmart jobs...

[disidoro01]

4. The truth

is probably somewhere in the middle...He says 122,000, they say 200,000. A federal income tax form can verify.
Regardless, I don't trust what a corporation spins. Monsanto GMO's are good for us? BP cleaned up the gulf completely?