This article discloses some very, very nice human qualities in the NSA whistle blower:
"...an
NSA staffer who contacted me last month and asked not to be
identified–and whose claims we checked with Snowden himself via his ACLU
lawyer Ben Wizner—offered me a very different, firsthand portrait of
how Snowden was seen by his colleagues in the agency’s Hawaii office: A
principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee, and one
who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors
with sheer talent. ...
That kid was a genius among geniuses,” says the NSA
staffer. “NSA is full of smart people, but anybody who sat in a meeting
with Ed will tell you he was in a class of his own…I’ve never seen
anything like it.” ...
As further evidence that Snowden didn’t hijack his
colleagues’ accounts for his leak, the NSA staffer points to an occasion
when Snowden was given a manager’s password so that he could cover for
him while he was on vacation. Even then, investigators found no evidence
Snowden had misused that staffer’s privileges, and the source says
nothing he could have uniquely accessed from the account has shown up in
news reports. ...
Another hint of his whistleblower conscience, aside
from the telltale hoodie: Snowden kept a copy of the constitution on his
desk to cite when arguing against NSA activities he thought might
violate it. ...
The source tells me Snowden also once nearly lost his job standing up for a coworker who was being disciplined by a superior.
Snowden often left small, gifts anonymously at colleagues’ desks."
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