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After Edward Snowden's accident during army training, which left him with severe stress fractures, he was forced off the training program. This incident significantly altered his career trajectory. Unable to continue his path in the army, Snowden eventually found his way into the intelligence community. He used his technical skills to secure a position with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This marked the beginning of his career in intelligence and ultimately led to his role as a whistleblower, exposing government secrets.
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When 9/11 happened, Snowden was at the residential quarters of Fort Meade. It was pandemonium all around with the NSA and CIA headquarters being evacuated. Special police, barbed wires, and Humvees with machine guns filled the streets, eventually becoming a permanent part of Fort Meade. America would never be the same again. Over a hundred thousand employees of the Intelligence Community returned to work the next day, knowing that they had failed to keep America safe. The heads of agencies petitioned and got approval for extraordinary security measures. Personally, Snowden's anti-establishment hacker ethos was entirely overwhelmed by a sense of patriotic duty. He signed up for the army, with top-grade scores in the entrance exams to be qualified as a Special Forces Sergeant, an elite track that was usually for existing army soldiers. However, a grievous accident during training left him with severe stress fractures that forced him off the training program. Eventually, he was given a di...
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