Snowden’s 2012 NSA theft linked to post‑9/11 “stove‑piping” network integration

The passage outlines how NSA’s post‑9/11 network integration created a shared NSANet that Snowden accessed in 2012, suggesting a systemic security lapse that enabled the theft of documents spanning th Post‑9/11 removal of NSA stovepiping created a shared NSANet with CIA and DoD access. Snowden accessed this integrated network while employed at Dell in 2012. The network’s “reading rooms” allowed sy