With Snowden, the federal government's current policy of hiring temporary contractors whenever possible essentially backfired. According to an article at Bloomberg Businessweek, "
Snowden's Access to NSA's Deepest Secrets Disputed." Quoting from the article --
Snowden, who leaked a PowerPoint deck on the NSA’s secret Prism spying program and a trove of other classified information that he stole from the agency, has depicted himself as a highly skilled mole who exposed the NSA’s deepest secrets to the world. News coverage of the leaks has helped promote this storyline. Yet current and former intelligence officials familiar with his role within the agency present a different picture—one of a 30-year-old outsider with a talent for self-promotion, whose junior position kept him at a distance from the NSA’s most sensitive spy operations.
With that in mind, let's take a look at the fun editorial cartoonists are having with Snowden's current situation: he was last seen 'hiding out' at the Moscow airport.
From
Jeremy Nell at Cagle, "Where's Snowden:"
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From
Chip Bok, also at Cagle, "Snowden in Moscow:"
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From
Christopher Weyant at politicalhumor.about.com, "NSA Like Me:"
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From
Scott Stantis at the Chicago Tribune, "With 'Friends' Like These:"
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And my personal favorite, from
Walt Handelsman at USNews:
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According to
Huffington Post, 38% of those polled at first said Snowden did the right thing, and later said it was wrong (not necessarily the same people, just the same percentage).
-- Marge
