C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks

[alp227]

Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man’s behavior and work habits, as well as a troubling suspicion.

The C.I.A. suspected that Mr. Snowden was trying to break into classified computer files he was not authorized to access, and decided to send him home, according to two senior American officials.

But the red flags went unheeded. Mr. Snowden left the C.I.A. to become a contractor for the National Security Agency, and four years later he leaked thousands of classified documents. The supervisor’s cautionary note and the C.I.A.’s suspicions were never forwarded to the N.S.A. or its contractors, and surfaced only after federal investigators began combing through Mr. Snowden’s record once the documents began spilling out, intelligence and law enforcement officials said.

“It slipped through the cracks,” one veteran law enforcement official said of the report.

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[FirstLight]

1. They are building the case...

Of course the info wasn't given to the NSA, because these agencies never do background work... :eyeroll: sorry, sounds like they could be planting evidence against Snowden already...laying the grundwork for when they get hiom back in the US someday...

[DURHAM D]

2. It reflects poorly on the CIA, not Snowden.

[karynnj]

11. It reflects poorly on both -- but I agree that this looks worse for the CIA

This should have been enough to take away his clearance and to forever deny him clearance again. This would have prevented him from being a source of some of the most damaging leaks to the US government ever. (I KNOW many here think the leaks needed and honor him for leaking, but it is true from an objective point of view that those leaks made US foreign policy far more difficult.)

As to Snowden, what he is accused of then, is what he admits to doing later. The clearest thing is that it means that he intentionally sought clearance JUST to violate every promise he made to get it.

[zeemike]

3. Yep...time to cover their ass.

And build a case against him at the same time.
There is nor reason to believe a thing they say...they are in the business of deception.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Perhaps Snowden built his own case, tis true he slipped through the cracks but his

Supervisor at CIA did see action in which Snowden did access and steal information with full intention to proceed in the manner of his choosing, wrong, wrong, wrong.

[eilen]

5. If it is even true. Don't believe everything the NSA and government tell you. nt

[Thinkingabout]

10. I also don't believe everything Snowden puts out, he has proven he is willing to steal

And he did not enter into his employment, sign an oath and then intentionally break the oath, you bet, don't believe the lying Snowden.

[Lonr]

6. “It slipped through the cracks”

Good thing for us that he did

[DallasNE]

7. What Doesn't Slip Through The Cracks

This is the new normal with outside agencies contracted to do the background checks. Their interest is profit rather than security so this is what we end up with.

[AverageJoe90]

8. The C.I.A. needs to get its shit together.....

Although, one must wonder if certain factions of Intel might have actually helped him get thru.....you know, perhaps, maybe, oh, I dunno, maybe the same guys who lied us into invading Iraq in '03? As in, BushCo? (Yes, Snowden fans, I went there. Deal with it.)

[fasttense]

9. How convenient to "find" this derogatory comment now.

It was just misplaced back in 2009, and now, when the NSA needs this derogatory information to make Snowden look bad the CIA finds it for them. Because we all know no one in the NSA would have actually looked at Snowden's personnel file when they gave him such a high clearance. Reading and evaluating personnel files that are easily accessed from another government agency in order to hand out security clearances is just too difficult for the NSA.

It just slipped through the cracks...right.