Snowden's Alma Mater Booz Allen Is Looking For An Insider Threat Analyst To Make Sure There Are No More Pesky Snowdens

Booz Allen Hamilton, Snowden's former employer, has posted a new “Insider Threat Analyst” job for someone with a background in “counterintelligence, information assurance, security, network engineering, or data science” to "develop and implement insider threat program solutions" - aka catch future Snowdens. Somewhat bizarrely, applicants' background checks would be done by the same massive security contractor that supposedly checked both Snowden and the Washington Navy Yard shooter, and which is now under investigation for fraudulently claiming to have done 650,000 checks it didn't do, leaving us to wonder how many they actually did do, and what it cost us, and why bother given that these surveillance programs don't do anything useful except prove what we need security from is primarily them.

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