Posted by Sir Four at 7:06am Jun 26 '13Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contractor for one reason alone - to obtain evidence of Washington's cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal.
For the first time, Snowden has admitted he sought a position at Booz Allen Hamilton so he could collect proof about the US National Security Agency's secret surveillance programmes ahead of planned leaks to the media.
"My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked," he told the Post on June 12. "That is why I accepted that position about three months ago."
It's pretty clear from this that Snowden was not just a government worker who became uncomfortable with what he learned, and then felt he had to leak word out. He sought the job with the premeditated intent to gain access to classified documents and leak them. This admission will likely prove pretty damning in any future prosecution, if US authorities can get Snowden in their custody.