> He was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type filesHe was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type files.
I wish he were a participant on HN so he could chime in here and defend himself.
My impression is that he held several jobs over a few years which gave him access to more of the breadth of what was going on.
Surely after the revelations more security checks would have been implemented. But the other instances of large caches of leaked material suggest that there are not effective internal controls.
As a thought experiment, I'd suggest that the small size of teams required to maintain security, combined with a 'need to know' rule, results in an environment where creating an internal audit trail puts operational security at risk, and so it is avoided. All the anti-Trump leaks suggest that this is true, since surely Trump would have asked who had access to the leaked information, and the list would have been small enough (b/c of need-to-know) that he could have made a spectacle of the leaker.
Well, putting aside the observation that the documents speak for themselves, and ignoring the inaccurate claims made by leaders to the American people about surveillance, what impression should I have?
I believe that was a (not so nice) way of saying that Snowden had intentionally exaggerated his history in order to establish himself as more of an authority on these matters regarding things he did not actually have access to.
Personally, even if I disagree with most of what he did, I think that specifically was an understandable move as he seemed to be genuine about his beliefs and desire to spread his message.
He was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type files. This is why you don't see raw intelligence from his leaks.
From my own experiences working at the agency, GP is correct in that very few people can task FISA data.