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Extraction Summary
3
People
5
Organizations
1
Locations
3
Events
2
Relationships
3
Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book manuscript/proof page (likely from edward jay epstein's book on snowden) included in congressional oversight records
File Size:
1.22 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page (p. 43) from a book manuscript (likely by Edward Jay Epstein given the filename prefix 'Epst' and subject matter) produced as evidence for the House Oversight Committee. The text details Edward Snowden's attempts to secure a high-level Senior Executive Service (SES) position at the NSA in 2012 while working for Dell, his rejection of a lower-level G-13 offer in September 2012, and speculates on his motivations for seeking access to classified documents.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Snowden | Subject |
Discussed regarding his employment history at Dell and attempts to join the NSA.
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| Unnamed Former Senior NSA Officer | Source |
Quoted stating it was unrealistic for Snowden to expect an SES position.
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| Reporter in Moscow | Interviewer |
Person to whom Snowden joked about stealing test answers.
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Organizations (5)
Timeline (3 events)
Late Summer 2012
March 2013
Career move made by Snowden for the purpose of accessing tightly held documents.
Unknown
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
Relationships (2)
Text mentions 'his job at Dell'.
Snowden applied for SES position, was offered G-13, rejected it.
Key Quotes (3)
"“He then walked into the NSA and said you should hire me because I am this good on the test.”"Source
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"“It was totally unrealistic for Snowden to expect to get an SES position,” a former senior NSA officer told me."Source
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Quote #2
"If he was to advance himself now, he had to find a new way."Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,805 characters)
Thief | 43
in a 2013 interview. “He then walked into the NSA and said you should hire me because I am this good on the test.”
The reason why he attempted to gain entry into the upper ranks of the NSA in the late summer of 2012 is less clear. If his Internet posting and libertarian riffs are an indication of his state of mind then, he was hostile to the surveillance activities of the NSA. If so, it made little sense that he would seek a permanent career there. If this is considered in light of the career move he made six months later (in March 2013), which, as he himself admits, was for the express purpose of getting at tightly held documents stored on computers that were not available to him in his job at Dell, then he might have been seeking wider access in 2012 for a more nefarious purpose than an NSA job.
In any case, despite the near-perfect scores, the NSA did not offer him a Senior Executive Service job. “It was totally unrealistic for Snowden to expect to get an SES position,” a former senior NSA officer told me. Snowden’s ambitions might have been disappointed in this instance, but it did not prevent him from later claiming that he had been a senior adviser to the CIA and also a senior adviser to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Instead of an SES position, the NSA offered him a lowly G-13 job as an information technology worker, which was not an improvement on his job at Dell. He took this slight as evidence of the NSA’s incompetence, subsequently joking to a reporter in Moscow that his ability to steal the test answers should have been seen as a qualification for the NSA job. In September 2012, he turned down the NSA offer. If he was to advance himself now, he had to find a new way.
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