Booz Allen Fires Edward Snowden, Says They Didn’t Pay Him $200K

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has now been fired.

Booz Allen on Tuesday morning also called into question one detail Snowden gave about himself when it updated a statement it released Sunday evening with a single sentence: “Snowden, who had a salary at the rate of $122,000, was terminated June 10, 2013, for violations of the firm’s code of ethics and firm policy,” the company said.

Snowden had told The Guardian that he had “a very comfortable life” that included “a salary of roughly 200,000.” It’s possible he was accounting for other income outside his work for Booz Allen or that he might have been exaggerating to make a point about the sacrifice he felt he was making by releasing the documents.

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.