Gen Hayden Confirms My Assertion Regarding Unclassified Emails

This morning on WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall" radio program, former Director of the NSA, retired Air Force 4-star General Michael Hayden was being interviewed by hosts Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor about the current conflict between Apple and the FBI with regard to unlocking the cell phone used of one of the San Bernardino shooters.

At the end of the interview, O'Connor asked the former director a thinly veiled question referring to Hillary Clinton that went something like this: When you were director, if a foreign official had classified information on an unsecured server, is that something you would have been all over? Hayden replied: Not just classified. If an official from a hostile foreign country had information on an unsecured server - even unclassified information - I would have moved heaven and earth to get at it because of the valuable intelligence it would contain.

I'd have to say, Gen Hayden verifies my assertions in my 14 Feb post, wouldn't you?

Too Many Unasked Questions Surround Edward Snowden

       The Guardian published a letter by Dr Agnes Callamard (Executive director, Article 19) on August 6th arguing on behalf of more than 150 civil society organizations that the US should leave Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower, alone. While I'm not thrilled by the NSA's intrusion into the private communications of American citizens, I think it is extraordinarily dangerous to just accept at face value that Snowden is some noble whistleblower as Callamard and many others appear to have.
       There are so many unanswered questions surrounding Snowden. More importantly, there are a lot of unasked questions. Specifically, I think the following questions that I don't think I have heard asked need to be asked and answers need to be obtained. How did this guy get jobs (either as a government employee or contractor) with the CIA, NSA and defense contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton? Positions with these organizations are extremely competitive. Snowden is a high school dropout! There were rumors he got his GED at Anne Arundel Community College but a college spokesman was quoted in The Capital as saying that the school has no record of him receiving a GED from them. Likewise for the cyber-security coursework he supposedly completed. How did he get a security clearance - especially in positions that usually require passing a polygraph examination? Did no one verify claims on his resume regarding his education? Did those performing his background checks not do their job? Or did they falsify information? These questions allude to a far more sinister situation. Was Snowden's access to all this highly classified information and sensitive programs the result of those charged with checking his background failing to do their job or was it a case of some person or persons who have infiltrated our security community, paving the way for a spy?
       We need to know these answers. That is why Snowden doesn't deserve to be "left alone".