Snowden: ‘I Was Trained As A Spy’

Edward Snowden told NBC’s Brian Williams he is a professional spy.

“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,” Snowden said in an interview with NBC’s Brian William for the “Nightly News” released Tuesday night.

“Now the government might deny these things,” Snowden said. “They might frame it in certain ways, and say, ‘Oh, well, you know, he’s a low-level analyst.’ But what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to use one position that I’ve had in a career, here or there, to distract from the totality of my experience, which is that I’ve worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, undercover, overseas.”

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.