It's possible that Snowden was including reimbursements, a medical/dental plan, a pension, a company car, life insurance, that sort of thing. BAH may also be reporting his pay after taxes.
>He reportedly left his home on May 1
Why does this matter? Has he ever claimed that he went straight from his house to HK?
>Snowden didn't have 'authority' to wiretap anybody/He might not have had the ability to do so, either
How do we know? If he had root access to a mail server, or a single-sign-on server, he could have leveraged that into access to much more of the network. You're not supposed to send passwords over email, but people do it all the time. I don't think he's saying that he could have also gotten away with it, merely that he had the capability to, in contrast to earlier NSA testimony that the NSA did not have the ability to collect those communications.
>Snowden's résumé is fishy
Why does it matter that Snowden is a dropout? He clearly worked for BAH. The only question is what his capacity was there:
>and that the terms Snowden used to describe his agency positions did not match internal job descriptions.
What does this mean? Does it mean, literally, that the job title that he had didn't exactly match what he said in the interview? Why aren't they stating what his actual job title was? Privacy concerns?
It's possible that Snowden was including reimbursements, a medical/dental plan, a pension, a company car, life insurance, that sort of thing. BAH may also be reporting his pay after taxes.
>He reportedly left his home on May 1
Why does this matter? Has he ever claimed that he went straight from his house to HK?
>Snowden didn't have 'authority' to wiretap anybody/He might not have had the ability to do so, either
How do we know? If he had root access to a mail server, or a single-sign-on server, he could have leveraged that into access to much more of the network. You're not supposed to send passwords over email, but people do it all the time. I don't think he's saying that he could have also gotten away with it, merely that he had the capability to, in contrast to earlier NSA testimony that the NSA did not have the ability to collect those communications.
>Snowden's résumé is fishy
Why does it matter that Snowden is a dropout? He clearly worked for BAH. The only question is what his capacity was there:
>and that the terms Snowden used to describe his agency positions did not match internal job descriptions.
What does this mean? Does it mean, literally, that the job title that he had didn't exactly match what he said in the interview? Why aren't they stating what his actual job title was? Privacy concerns?