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I think you missed a lot of the phrasing:

> supposedly gained access

He was an IT administrator who had Sudo access to pretty much everything. I’d be careful of a lot of the stuff you read in 2013. There was and still is a concerted effort to discredit Snowden and make people feel he is a traitor.

Example: why did they cancel his passport after his plane left for Russia? (To say he’s a Russian spy)

There’s a lot of examples of this. Highly recommend some of the documentaries on the subject I and some recent discussion on the topic.




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