Edward Snowden In 2009: Leakers Should Be 'Shot In The Balls' [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
NSA leaker Edward Snowden despised classified leaks in 2009, illustrating that the former Booz Allen Hamilton employee was not always the champion of transparency that he has become.
The technology website ArsTechnica published IRC chats where he railed against a New York Times story about the U.S. rejecting an Israeli request for aid to attack an Iranian nuclear site and the United States' covert efforts to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
"Are they TRYING to start a war? Jesus christ. they're like wikileaks," he said in the chat.
"they're just reporting, dude," said another user.
"moreover, who the fuck are the anonymous sources telling them this?" he said. "those people should be shot in the balls."
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Edward Snowden in 2009: Leakers Should Be "Shot in the Balls" - PolicyMic
Chat logs published by the popular tech news site Ars Technica reveal an Edward Snowden who held very different views about whistleblowers four years ago than his actions this month would imply.
On #arsificial, a channel on Ars Technica's public Internet Relay Chat server, Snowden shared his opinions with other users on everything from life in Switzerland ("God I hate metric. Why can't they use real numbers over here?"to Ron Paul ("He's so dreamy."
It's no surprise, then, that in the course of looking through Snowden's more than 800 posts on Ars Technica, one encounters several comments about the NSA and the state of privacy in the United States. What is absolutely shocking, however, is what Snowden said.
In one remarkable chat that took place in January 2009, Snowden ranted about a New York Times article that described secret negotiations between President Bush and Israel about the Iranian nuclear threat. Snowden was incensed about the fact that the Times had used government insiders, none of whom "would speak on the record because of the great secrecy surrounding the intelligence developed on Iran," as sources.
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