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 Interesting: NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden’s 
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 NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden’s story?

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 How did a high school drop-out and special forces failure become entrusted 
 with the NSA's biggest secrets?

 How did a high school drop-out become entrusted with the government's 
 biggest secrets?

 Edward Snowden, 29, leaked details of PRISM, a National Security Agency 
 program he says harvests personal data from internet

 He has fled to Hong Kong from Hawaii, where he worked as computer 
 technician for government contractor on $200,000 a year salary

 Questions over how a man who failed to complete his high school 
 education was entrusted with NSA's top secrets and systems

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 Good question.

Like how did a lowly Lt. Col. named Oliver North get away with what he 
 did? They get fast tracked.

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 "1987: Then U.S. Attorney General William French Smith blew the whistle on 
 a fairly low ranking Marine officer by the name of Oliver North. According 
 to Smith, Lt. Col. Oliver North directly helped draft a plan in 1984 to 
 impose martial law in the United States in the event of an emergency. This 
 secret plan would suspend the U.S. Constitution and turn over control of 
 the government to the little known agency at that time: FEMA. This plan 
 would appoint military commanders to run state and local governments. 
 Implementation of this plan would have been triggered by violent and wise 
 spread internal dissent, disagreement with government policy or national 
 opposition to any U.S. military invasion abroad. Essentially, it amounted 
 to a complete and total suspension of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of 
 Rights.

 "Investigators who uncovered this plan believe that between 1983 - 1986, 
 North's office was the 'central command center' for this informal secret 
 structure which involved more than the illegal sale of arms to Iran and 
 illegal funding of the underground war in Nicaragua under President Ronald 
 Reagan. "Lifers" in the military were shocked, saying at the time that no 
 Lt. Colonel is ever given the kind of power North was apparently given 
 within this secret structure. So great was his authority, he could have 
 the orbits of sophisticated satellites altered to follow Soviet ships 
 around the world or launch high-flying spy aircraft on secret missions. 
 Some even compared this whole operation as eerily similar to the one 
 portrayed in the movie, Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford 
 (1994).

 "North wasn't alone in this secret structure. Others included Reagan's 
 closest advisers: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, CIA Director William 
 Casey and National Security Adviser William Clark. Congressional 
 investigators at the time were shocked by how far along this secret 
 structure and planning had progressed. Arthur Liman, who was the chief 
 counsel of the Senate's Iran-Contra committee stated in a memo that Oliver 
 North was at the center of what he called a "secret government within a 
 government." Prior to those hearings, Liman wrote that a policy decision 
 made at the highest levels during the Iran Contra scandal "...reveals the 
 whole secret government within a government, operated from the Executive 
 Office Building by a lieutenant colonel with its own army, air force, 
 diplomatic agents, intelligence operatives and appropriations capacity."