For some, Edward Snowden is a hero for leaking information that the government is amassing phone records and the online activity of U.S citizens. For others, he's a traitor. And still for Politico's Roger Simon, Snowden is a loser.
Simon writes in a Tuesday column:
A guy with hardly any qualifications is earning $200,000 a year with access to classified information after less than three months?Is this the American dream or what?
Some would think this is not a bad life for a guy who has been a total slacker. But this is not what Edward Snowden thinks. He has still not saved the world nor become an international celebrity. ...
Sunday, from his Hong Kong hotel room, Snowden continued to communicate with ... [Washington Post reporter Barton] Gellman.
“There’s no precedent in my life for this kind of thing,” Snowden wrote. “I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life — I don’t like being in the spotlight.”
Which is the trouble with spies. You can’t believe a word they say.
Past reports say Snowden, 29, has very little formal education (just a GED) and dropped out of Army training after accidentally breaking his legs. He did, however, have a knack for computers. It's a career path not too unlike that of Steve Jobs who, like Snowden, was a college dropout.
For what it's worth, past columns demonstrate Simon is, at the least, a defender of President Obama.
