Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident?

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289. You keep saying that

and I am trying to be polite and civil, but you have no idea how easy it is to get these jobs IF you have the clearance. You don't need any other skills at all. I was an instructor at the 35F course at Fort Huachuca for a number of years. One of my former students is a smart young woman but she has zero experience in the IC. She was in the National Guard in Oklahoma in a Combat Sustainment Unit. She has never deployed, and she hurt her back at a training event. She was medically discharged from the Army after exactly 2 years in the Guard. She was not even an NCO. What she did have was a Master's degree in English, a TS/SCI clearance and a charming personality and intellect. She is currently working for Booz Allen (same company as snowden) as a deputy Cyber intelligence manager in San Antonio. That is a job that is usually assigned to someone with 15-20 years experience. Not 2..............She interviewed well and was available immediately, that was why she got the job. They had a contract that needed filling or the contractor company was going to lose their slots. So they hired well below the experience level required to keep the money. It stuns me that people aren't aware of this, the IC hires people like this all the time. No one ounce of experience, but if it helps the contractor keep the money they will hire you. Hell you want to see a train wreck, look at the JIEDDO contract for Afghanistan, they were hiring ex soldiers with less than 4 years experience to defeat the IED threat in Afghanistan. A lot of good people were killed because Raytheon wanted their cut. Snowden was hired because he was right place, right time, I doubt he had anything resembling the skills they needed.