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David McCloskey

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

Well, no, I don't buy it. There's a very kind of critical period in the middle of 2012 that's kind of essential to this. But up until that point, I mean, it is probably worth us talking a little bit about that kind of access he had. Because he does end up in a unique position to take a massive trove of documents.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

Well, no, I don't buy it. There's a very kind of critical period in the middle of 2012 that's kind of essential to this. But up until that point, I mean, it is probably worth us talking a little bit about that kind of access he had. Because he does end up in a unique position to take a massive trove of documents.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And he's kind of pulling together it is, you know, because again, in Hawaii, I mean, I think he'll say he had like 30 minutes of work to do a day of actual work. So he starts kind of pulling together what is this program called Heartbeat, where he's essentially trying to create a centralized repository for a lot of the documents he's going to end up stealing.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And he's kind of pulling together it is, you know, because again, in Hawaii, I mean, I think he'll say he had like 30 minutes of work to do a day of actual work. So he starts kind of pulling together what is this program called Heartbeat, where he's essentially trying to create a centralized repository for a lot of the documents he's going to end up stealing.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And he's kind of pulling together it is, you know, because again, in Hawaii, I mean, I think he'll say he had like 30 minutes of work to do a day of actual work. So he starts kind of pulling together what is this program called Heartbeat, where he's essentially trying to create a centralized repository for a lot of the documents he's going to end up stealing.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

Well, if you enter Edward Snowden on Google, his tagline will say NSA whistleblower. Yeah. And that's how he pops up. But I think this is... Deadly sin number two.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

Well, if you enter Edward Snowden on Google, his tagline will say NSA whistleblower. Yeah. And that's how he pops up. But I think this is... Deadly sin number two.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

Well, if you enter Edward Snowden on Google, his tagline will say NSA whistleblower. Yeah. And that's how he pops up. But I think this is... Deadly sin number two.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So this is impure motives.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So this is impure motives.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So this is impure motives.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

This is critical to understand because lost in all of the memoirs, a lot of the very positive reception that Snowden's leaks received is a very critical piece of the timeline, which is you get to June of 2012. Okay. He's in Hawaii and Snowden has a massive fight with his supervisors over what else? A software patch that gets deployed. It fails. Right.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

This is critical to understand because lost in all of the memoirs, a lot of the very positive reception that Snowden's leaks received is a very critical piece of the timeline, which is you get to June of 2012. Okay. He's in Hawaii and Snowden has a massive fight with his supervisors over what else? A software patch that gets deployed. It fails. Right.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

This is critical to understand because lost in all of the memoirs, a lot of the very positive reception that Snowden's leaks received is a very critical piece of the timeline, which is you get to June of 2012. Okay. He's in Hawaii and Snowden has a massive fight with his supervisors over what else? A software patch that gets deployed. It fails. Right.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And there is a fight on his team between supervisors over why this happened. And. Essentially what Snowden does, which is similar to what he did in his very kind of first months at CIA, is in this back and forth fight, he sends a note like three or four levels above the chain to a senior NSA employee at Fort Meade. And keep in mind, Snowden is a contractor working for Dell.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And there is a fight on his team between supervisors over why this happened. And. Essentially what Snowden does, which is similar to what he did in his very kind of first months at CIA, is in this back and forth fight, he sends a note like three or four levels above the chain to a senior NSA employee at Fort Meade. And keep in mind, Snowden is a contractor working for Dell.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And there is a fight on his team between supervisors over why this happened. And. Essentially what Snowden does, which is similar to what he did in his very kind of first months at CIA, is in this back and forth fight, he sends a note like three or four levels above the chain to a senior NSA employee at Fort Meade. And keep in mind, Snowden is a contractor working for Dell.

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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So rightly or wrongly, he's not a blue badge NSA employee working at the fork. So he's elevated this issue massively. This obviously doesn't go well for him. There's a note that comes back. He gets a quick rebuke from Washington. His behavior is, quote, totally unacceptable. Unacceptable in all caps. And so you can only imagine what's going on in the cubicle form out under that pineapple field.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So rightly or wrongly, he's not a blue badge NSA employee working at the fork. So he's elevated this issue massively. This obviously doesn't go well for him. There's a note that comes back. He gets a quick rebuke from Washington. His behavior is, quote, totally unacceptable. Unacceptable in all caps. And so you can only imagine what's going on in the cubicle form out under that pineapple field.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So rightly or wrongly, he's not a blue badge NSA employee working at the fork. So he's elevated this issue massively. This obviously doesn't go well for him. There's a note that comes back. He gets a quick rebuke from Washington. His behavior is, quote, totally unacceptable. Unacceptable in all caps. And so you can only imagine what's going on in the cubicle form out under that pineapple field.