The 13 Most Bizarre Things from Edward Snowden’s NBC News Interview

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36. My opinion on what to believe or not to believe in Mr. Snowden.

Personally, I believe that what he was most of all was an extremely good "hacker" for the CIA and NSA. His educational history and past work experience leads me to believe that his career has been based on this. Our intelligence community would see Mr. Snowden as a very valuable asset in both gaining access to other countries intelligence data bases as well as in trying to provide security for our own intelligence data bases. It just seemed rather interesting that he knew so much about so many different intelligence data bases in such a short time not to believe that this was his expertise.

What cannot be disputed, at least in my opinion, is the extreme intelligence of Mr. Snowden. Unfortunately, it may also be his own worst enemy. My guess, if he would have come out at first chance and admitted that he was a professional hacker for the US some of the back story about his personal life either being so spy-like as opposed to being more non-descript, the conversation might just be very different.

As to whether he is a whistle blower or not, he is on certain issues, in particular the data mining on American citizens. Where I believe he may not be a whistle blower is in some of the activities the US has done in relation to foreign intelligence gathering that is as unfortunate as I may feel it is, is for the most part necessary as part of our national security.