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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019508)" |
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| 20 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS |
| applied only in this capacity, which entailed a five-year employment |
| agreement, the minimum requirement for an intelligence technol- |
| ogy job was an associate's degree awarded by a two-year community |
| college in electronics and communications, engineering technology, |
| computer network systems, or electronics engineering technology. |
| Candidates had to have had a final GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale |
| from a fully accredited technical school or university. Snowden, as |
| we've seen, did not meet these standards. If a candidate lacks these |
| qualifications, the CIA can make an exception only if he or she has |
| at least two years' civilian or military work experience in the tele- |
| communications and/or automated information systems field that is |
| comparable to one of the requisite degree fields. Snowden in no way |
| qualified in this way either. |
| Under extraordinary circumstances, even the minimum require- |
| ments might be waived if the applicant had a distinguished mili- |
| tary career and an honorable discharge. Snowden, however, did not |
| complete his military training at Fort Benning and received only an |
| administrative discharge. |
| The CIA, to be sure, had needed computer-savvy recruits to ser- |
| vice its expanding array of computer systems since 1990. By 2006, |
| however, there was no shortage of fully qualified applicants for IT |
| jobs who met the CIA's minimum standards. Most of them had uni- |
| versity course records, work experience at IT companies, computer |
| science training certificates from technical schools, and other such |
| credentials. The CIA, like the NSA, also obtained technicians with |
| special skills for IT jobs from outside contractors. So it had no need |
| for employing a twenty-two-year-old dropout who did not meet its |
| requisites. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief |
| in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- |
| tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that "he had some pull." |
| In 2006, Snowden's grandfather, who had attained the rank of |
| rear admiral, was certainly well connected in the intelligence world. |
| After twenty years' service in the Coast Guard, Barrett had joined |
| an interagency task force in 1998, which included top executives |
| from the CIA, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. |
| It had been set up to monitor any gaps in the U.S. embargo on Cuba, |
| and Barrett, as one of its leaders, was in constant liaison with the |
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