http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/exclusive-snowden-swiped-password-nsa-coworker-n29006
BY MICHAEL ISIKOFF
NBC News
February 12th 2014
A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his
security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to
use his personal log-in credentials to access classified information,
according to an agency memo obtained by NBC News.
In addition, an active duty member of the U.S. military and a contractor
have been barred from accessing National Security Agency facilities after
they were "implicated" in actions that may have aided Snowden, the memo
states. Their status is now being reviewed by their employers, the memo
says.
The Feb. 10 memo, sent to congressional intelligence and judiciary
committees this week, provides the first official account of a sweeping
NSA internal inquiry aimed at identifying intelligence officials and
contractors who may been responsible for one of the biggest security
breaches in U.S. history. The memo is unclassified but labeled "for
official use only."
While the memo's account is sketchy, it suggests that, contrary to
Snowden’s statements, he used an element of trickery to retrieve his trove
of tens of thousands of classified documents: "At Snowden’s request," the
civilian NSA employee, who is not identified by name, entered his password
onto Snowden’s computer terminal, the memo states.
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