{"id":23370,"date":"2014-05-28T03:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=23370"},"modified":"2014-05-28T03:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:42:50","slug":"edward-snowden-trained-as-a-spy-and-rejects-claims-he-was-a-low-level-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-trained-as-a-spy-and-rejects-claims-he-was-a-low-level-hacker.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden &#8216;trained as a spy&#8217; and rejects claims he was a low-level hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In his first ever interview with a U.S. TV network,      the NSA whistlebower said many of the terms used to describe      him were 'misleading'              Snowden said, he 'developed sources and methods for      keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile      environments'              A one-hour interview with NBC will air on Wednesday      night              Nightly News anchor Brian Williams travelled to      Moscow to meet him        <\/p>\n<p>    By David Mccormack  <\/p>\n<p>    Published: 21:50 EST, 27 May    2014 | Updated: 01:40 EST, 28 May    2014  <\/p>\n<p>      32 shares    <\/p>\n<p>      62    <\/p>\n<p>      View      comments    <\/p>\n<p>    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has hit back at claims    made by the Obama administration that he was merely a low-level    hacker and has claimed that he worked undercover for both the    CIA and the National Security Agency.  <\/p>\n<p>    I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense    of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas -    pretending to work in a job that I'm not - and even being    assigned a name that was not mine, he told NBC News in his    first interview with a U.S. TV network.<\/p>\n<p>    Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia after    revealing details of U.S. spying activities to journalists,    portrayed himself as a technical specialist... a technical    expert.  <\/p>\n<p>    Scroll down for video<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2641269\/I-trained-spy-Whistleblower-Edward-Snowden-rejects-claims-low-level-hacker-says-worked-undercover-CIA-NSA.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\/RK=0\/RS=M8F6I1dochJl_DaAZ2AuOIUAwuM-\" title=\"Edward Snowden 'trained as a spy' and rejects claims he was a low-level hacker\">Edward Snowden 'trained as a spy' and rejects claims he was a low-level hacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In his first ever interview with a U.S. TV network, the NSA whistlebower said many of the terms used to describe him were 'misleading' Snowden said, he 'developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile environments' A one-hour interview with NBC will air on Wednesday night Nightly News anchor Brian Williams travelled to Moscow to meet him By David Mccormack Published: 21:50 EST, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 01:40 EST, 28 May 2014 32 shares 62 View comments NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has hit back at claims made by the Obama administration that he was merely a low-level hacker and has claimed that he worked undercover for both the CIA and the National Security Agency. I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas - pretending to work in a job that I'm not - and even being assigned a name that was not mine, he told NBC News in his first interview with a U.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}