>>4295138 pb
Missed that connection.
Question is if ES can in some way redeem himself.
Q def wants him come in from the cold.
Was ES using our fear of bad optics, the bad optics of gis eliimination by going public?
Otherwise could just eliminate him.
Is a debrief necessary? They know what he took but maybe still don't know his contacts and recruiters?
But then again, sometimes when you already know something, you don't want others to know, so that they either think they are safe, or are worried and covering their tracks. And covering tracks can mean eliminating contacts which, interestingly, creates tracks.
His recruiters contacted him at a real point in time in his career for his mission.
When and where?
During military service? After miltary service?
They would be looking for a guy with the skills(already had?) to pull it off, or someone they thought they could teach(giving him all the skills needed) to impress an employer(and also to complete the mission). You wouldn't just train someone up to entry level skills and say, "good luck after you get in to your job. Hope you are able to learn what you need to accomplish the mission after you get hired".
I would look at the Snowden movie as a reworked sequence of events to retain plausibilty but something to be scrutinized further, with an eye looking for the time to insert when he was recruited, and looking for when and where he received full training for his mission. Real people. Real places. Events- not so real.