An Ex-NSA Official Discusses The NSA And What NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Will Be Facing


Advice For Snowden From A Man Who Knows: 'Always Check Six' -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top secret phone and Internet surveillance programs.

His advice for Snowden: "Be lawyered up to the max and find a place where it's going to be that much more difficult for the United States to make arrangements for his return," Drake said. "And always check six, as we said when I used to be a flyer in the Air Force. Always make sure you know what's behind you."

Drake, a 56-year-old former intelligence official at the National Security Agency, was prosecuted under the Espionage Act in 2010 for allegedly revealing classified information about the agency's sweeping warrantless wire-tapping program. The government later dropped all but a misdemeanor charge.

"For me this is a déjà vu," Drake said, adding that Snowden's previous comfortable life was over.

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My Comment: Sober comments from Thomas Drake who should knows Wikileaks founder Julian Assange also has some advice to NSA leaker Edward Snowden .... seek refuge in Latin America.

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