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Re:On the new Snowden documents by commentereleven on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @07:08AM (#8814249)
Snowden was low-level, but he was basically an admin doing migration to a new system. His job description required the access he was given.

Additionally, one of the lessons learned from the 9/11 attacks was that keeping data too "Need to Know" might prevent people who actually need to know information from knowing about it.

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Re:On the new Snowden documents by ultramancool on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:04PM (#8815754)
I'd recommend you read Greenwald's book, "No Place to Hide". Snowden was not exactly "low-level", he was in training for operations. He backed down to a low-level position by choice when he wanted greater access to documents. He even took a pay cut to do so.
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