The Japanese Anime Company Ryuhana where Snowden went to work in 2002 is being talked up on the LRC blog as an example of his work in the private sector.
Let’s see. In my previous blog, I showed that Snowden (and his parents) have been life-long employees/contractors of the state he claims to detest. He signed up, in turn, for the army, the special forces, the NSA, the CIA, and then for defense contractors tied to the CIA and the defense establishment (including Booz Allen). Some private sector poster boy. That is, out of a working life of about a decade, all but two years were spent sucking at the teat of the security state.
True, he was a webmaster at an (ostensible) anime company in 2002.
But, by 2004, the company had wound up its business.
That means it was open for business for all of two years. And guess where it was? At Fort Meade in Maryland, right next to the National Security Agency:
“Ryuhana closed in 2004 as the primary proprietors went off to college and opened a new business in California, according to the website. Other contributors to the site could not be reached for comment.
The defunct company listed an address in Fort Meade, Md., next door to the National Security Agency.”
Somebody really needs to check out whether this anime company had more going on with it than just cartoons.