History Of Snowden

Family and education

Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His father, a resident of Pennsylvania, was an officer in the United
States Coast Guard; and his mother, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, is a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.


 He has an older sister, an attorney.
By 1999, Snowden had moved with his family to Ellicott City, Maryland, where he studied computing at Anne Arundel Community College in order to gain the credits necessary to obtain a high school diploma, but he did not complete the coursework.

 He later obtained a GED.Snowden did some work online towards a Master's Degree at the University of Liverpool in 2011.

Before leaving for Hong Kong, Snowden resided in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii, with his girlfriend.

Career

In 2002 Snowden was working for Ryuhana Press, a now-defunct start-up that sold anime art.

On May 7, 2004, Snowden enlisted in the United States Army with the hope of eventually joining the Special Forces.

He said, "I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression" but was discharged just months later on September 28 after, he said, breaking both of his legs in a training accident.

 His next employment was as a National Security Agency (NSA) security guard for a covert facility at the University of Maryland, before joining the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to work on IT security.

In 2007, the CIA stationed him with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for maintaining computer network security.

 Snowden left the agency in 2009 for a private contractor inside an NSA facility on a United States military base in Japan.

At the time of his departure from the US in May 2013, he had been working for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton for less than three months as a system administrator inside the NSA in Hawaii.

 He described his life as "very comfortable," earning a salary of "roughly US$200,000", although his employer disputed this claim on June 10, when he was fired "for violations of the firm's code of ethics and firm policy."

 Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who initially interviewed Snowden and reported Snowden's revelations, later wrote, “It's possible Booz Allen is using a pro-rated figure, or it's possible Snowden talked about his salary at his prior NSA job at Dell.”