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February 14, 2014 12:09 am -05

NSA Fires Employee Who Allegedly Shared Password With Snowden

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The NSA has fired an employee who stands accused of sharing his password to the agency's network with Edward Snowden

The employee is the first victim of the NSA's internal probe to determine whether anyone inside the agency is responsible for the leaks of thousands (or millions) of top secret documents. The NSA revealed the firing in a letter to Congress dated February 10, which was obtained by NBC News on Thursday.

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The unnamed civilian employee, reportedly Snowden's supervisor, apparently gave Snowden his Public Key Infrastructure certificate to log onto the NSA network. That could have given Snowden access to documents he might not have otherwise had access to, wrote NSA director of legislative affairs Ethan Bauman in the letter. Read more...

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