I'm a little puzzled here. Remember the Outrageous! Outrageous!

[ConservativeDemocrat]

58. Epoxy helps...

...but unless you have a locked case and/or case-alarm configured (and as IT-guy, Snowden was likely to be one of the people involved in setting this up, so he'd know how to disable it), it's trivial to simply open the case and plug in a different header.

Heck, given modern cases, a handy set of pliers is all you need to open it up enough to access the header, no alarm needed.

Now admittedly, I'm not privy to Booz Allen's security procedures, and I'm sure they're undergoing some pretty intense review now. But the expectation that any organization is going to be able to run an absolutely airtight ship against even the most highly trusted people (and Snowden was trusted), is simply unreasonable.

As for the lying to Congress bit. Yup. Clapper did so. I know he has some "I didn't have gay sex in that airport bathroom" sorts of weaseling he's doing, but the simple fact is that any reasonable interpretation of Wyden's question doesn't leave enough room for this to be an interpretative thing.

Now see? The facts don't support my position in that case, but unlike others, I don't go trying to twist reality until it does. All I'll say is that it is up to Congress to decide if this fib was bad enough to warrant punishment. We'll see. But Clapper's day job is to provide information and protect national security, and he was put in a tough spot when reporting on a classified program, and Congress knows that.

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