Mediagazer: Booz Allen Has Fired Edward Snowden And Says His Salary Was Only $122,000 (Adam Taylor/Business Insider)

11:10 AM ET, June 11, 2013

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Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA — Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information …

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Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel — WASHINGTON — As Justice Department officials began the process Monday to charge Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician, with disclosing classified information, he checked out of a hotel in Hong Kong where he had been holed …

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Adam Taylor / Business Insider:

Booz Allen Has Fired Edward Snowden And Says His Salary Was Only $122,000 — In an updated statement on their website, security firm Booz Allen have announced that they have fired NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. — The statement is below, with the updated information in bold:

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Parody site ‘Kochifies’ L.A. Times stories — “Kochify the News” is part of a campaign by a group called Forecast the Facts to discourage Tribune Co. from selling its newspapers to the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, who are reportedly considering their purchase.

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