This is a question that has never been answered as it will open too many doors to reveal problems so huge as to destroy any creditability that the socialists controlling our government might have left. The easiest way for the progressives not have to explain their failings is to misdirect the questions about the failures, or maybe set up a smoke screen for their intended operations, and or just plain lie to the American people and the world about what happened.
When Mr Obama and his party of progressive socialist decided to change the country from a representative federation to a socialists democracy, they believed by suppressing individual freedom by executive fiat , executive orders, regulation and laws, they could force the population into dependency and therefore take control of all outcomes.
Apparently our enemies saw thorough this ignorance of reality and took advantage of opportunity to attack us at our weakest moment. Mr Snowden, it seems, is proof the attack was successful.
(This is just part of a larger article - go to the Wall Street Journal to read the entire story)
Was Snowden's Heist a Foreign Espionage Operation?
Those who know the files he stole think he was working for a foreign power, perhaps Russia , where he now lives. WSJ
By
Edward Jay Epstein
May 9, 2014 6:50 p.m. ET
Edward Snowden's massive misappropriations of classified documents from the inner sanctum of U.S. intelligence is mainly presented by the media as a whistleblowing story. In this narrative—designed by Mr. Snowden himself—he is portrayed as a disgruntled contractor for the National Security Agency, acting alone, who heroically exposed the evils of government surveillance beginning in 2013.
The other way of looking at it—based on the number and nature of documents Mr. Snowden took, and the dates when they were taken—is that only a handful of the secrets had anything to do with domestic surveillance by the government and most were of primary value to an espionage operation.
So far, only the whistleblower version has had immense international resonance. The Washington Post and Britain's Guardian, the newspapers that initially published the purloined documents, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. The journalists who assisted Mr. Snowden in this enterprise were awarded the 2014 Polk Award for national-security reporting. Former Congressman Ron Paul organized a clemency petition in February for Mr. Snowden, stating: "Thanks to one man's courageous actions, Americans know about the truly egregious ways their government is spying on them."
Edward Snowden during an interview in Hong Kong in June. Reuters/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/Courtesy of The Guardian
Yet others—until now not often quoted in news accounts—see Mr. Snowden as neither a hero nor a whistleblower. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified to the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2014, that "The vast majority of the documents that Snowden . . . exfiltrated from our highest levels of security had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities." Time magazine on April 3 quoted Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), the head of the House Intelligence Committee, as saying Mr. Snowden was "definitely under the influence of Russian officials."
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