Well, looking at ES family…. I think it's a fair assessment that they might keep things in the family.. digging some more…
Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983,[4] in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.[5] His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett,[6][7] was a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard who became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.[8] Snowden's father Lonnie was also an officer in the Coast Guard,[9] and his mother Elizabeth is a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.[10][11][12][13][14] His older sister, Jessica, was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Snowden said that he had expected to work for the federal government, as had the rest of his family.[15] His parents divorced in 2001,[16] and his father remarried.[17] Snowden scored above 145 on two separate IQ tests.[15]