David McCloskey

If you stack those up. Okay. He's a system administrator. So he's got access to massive databases kind of read write delete access right so you can see all this stuff so the scraping tools that he uses to do these downloads are more or less completely indiscriminate now he does do some specific searches right but he's scraping through these databases He has no idea what's even on these.

If you stack those up. Okay. He's a system administrator. So he's got access to massive databases kind of read write delete access right so you can see all this stuff so the scraping tools that he uses to do these downloads are more or less completely indiscriminate now he does do some specific searches right but he's scraping through these databases He has no idea what's even on these.

And there's an interesting kind of techie reason for some of this, which is that when senior NSA officials would come from around the world, come from Fort Meade and would log on to computers out at Hawaii, essentially their hard drive, what was on their system, really their user profile rather, in D.C. at Fort Meade would replicate that. out in Hawaii.

And there's an interesting kind of techie reason for some of this, which is that when senior NSA officials would come from around the world, come from Fort Meade and would log on to computers out at Hawaii, essentially their hard drive, what was on their system, really their user profile rather, in D.C. at Fort Meade would replicate that. out in Hawaii.

And there's an interesting kind of techie reason for some of this, which is that when senior NSA officials would come from around the world, come from Fort Meade and would log on to computers out at Hawaii, essentially their hard drive, what was on their system, really their user profile rather, in D.C. at Fort Meade would replicate that. out in Hawaii.

And so a lot of the flashier, sexier PowerPoints that ended up getting leaked initially are because senior NSA policy people had come out, not to meet with Snowden, but for other meetings in Hawaii.

And so a lot of the flashier, sexier PowerPoints that ended up getting leaked initially are because senior NSA policy people had come out, not to meet with Snowden, but for other meetings in Hawaii.

And so a lot of the flashier, sexier PowerPoints that ended up getting leaked initially are because senior NSA policy people had come out, not to meet with Snowden, but for other meetings in Hawaii.

And their files are downloaded there and he pulls them. Okay. Unknowingly, in many cases, off of these databases.

And their files are downloaded there and he pulls them. Okay. Unknowingly, in many cases, off of these databases.

And their files are downloaded there and he pulls them. Okay. Unknowingly, in many cases, off of these databases.

And I do agree with that. And I'm grateful that Edward Snowden did not go the WikiLeaks route. It also bears mentioning that If he had gone the WikiLeaks route and just pushed them out, he would have given Assange and his organization, or something like it, the credit. I think at his core, Edward Snowden, good, bad, and ugly, is a narcissist.

And I do agree with that. And I'm grateful that Edward Snowden did not go the WikiLeaks route. It also bears mentioning that If he had gone the WikiLeaks route and just pushed them out, he would have given Assange and his organization, or something like it, the credit. I think at his core, Edward Snowden, good, bad, and ugly, is a narcissist.

And I do agree with that. And I'm grateful that Edward Snowden did not go the WikiLeaks route. It also bears mentioning that If he had gone the WikiLeaks route and just pushed them out, he would have given Assange and his organization, or something like it, the credit. I think at his core, Edward Snowden, good, bad, and ugly, is a narcissist.

It would have been almost unthinkable for him to just push this stuff out there and not be the face of it. It's actually more strategic for someone who wants to be the face of this thing and to kind of ride this. to have journalists or somebody else writing stories that you can sort of catapult yourself on.

It would have been almost unthinkable for him to just push this stuff out there and not be the face of it. It's actually more strategic for someone who wants to be the face of this thing and to kind of ride this. to have journalists or somebody else writing stories that you can sort of catapult yourself on.

It would have been almost unthinkable for him to just push this stuff out there and not be the face of it. It's actually more strategic for someone who wants to be the face of this thing and to kind of ride this. to have journalists or somebody else writing stories that you can sort of catapult yourself on.

He has a five kilometer high stack, three miles for our American listeners of documents, 1.5 million documents. And he's going to try to give them to journalists. And so I guess, I mean, the question here is, well, who is he going to reach out to? Which journalist is he going to try? And who's really going to help him tell this story?

He has a five kilometer high stack, three miles for our American listeners of documents, 1.5 million documents. And he's going to try to give them to journalists. And so I guess, I mean, the question here is, well, who is he going to reach out to? Which journalist is he going to try? And who's really going to help him tell this story?

He has a five kilometer high stack, three miles for our American listeners of documents, 1.5 million documents. And he's going to try to give them to journalists. And so I guess, I mean, the question here is, well, who is he going to reach out to? Which journalist is he going to try? And who's really going to help him tell this story?