Posted on 03/08/2014 10:52:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents revealing the agency’s surveillance operations, said he raised his concerns to more than 10 officials, “none of whom took any action to address them,” before he decided to give the documents to journalists.
Mr. Snowden’s comments, in written answers to questions by members of the European Parliament that were released on Friday, amplified previous assertions that he initially tried to raise concerns internally about surveillance collection he believed went too far.
An N.S.A. spokeswoman declined to comment, but the agency has previously said its internal investigation, including interviews with co-workers, found no evidence that he had brought concerns to the attention of anyone.
But in his written testimony, Mr. Snowden insisted that he had, adding that his efforts had elicited two types of responses. Some people, he said, responded with “well-meaning but hushed warnings not to ‘rock the boat’ ” for fear of retaliation like being investigated by the F.B.I. as a suspected leaker.
“Everyone in the intelligence community is aware of what happens to people who report concerns about unlawful but authorized operations,” he wrote.
Other people, he said, told him to “let the issue be someone else’s problem.”
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It would have been nice if he stayed there a little longer until he got all the info he could on Barry Soetoro. But then again, if he did he wouldn’t be alive right now.
You know I was thinking maybe that’s why. Bambi talked for two hours and an hour yesterday to Vlad. Maybe he was told what to get in order to have Vlad lose that data.
hello Barry I have this copy of your Birth certificate from Snowdon, trade you his death and all the info for Ukraine and wait call me tomorrow.
if we believe him and we have no reason not to then this is scarier than anything else going on.
I wonder if he will name any of the people he tried to alert
They’ve been crushing whistleblowers for years. A lot of us didn’t care before 2009.
We lost our country about a generation ago.
Impossible. I’ve been told many times on FR that instead of running off to a foreign country the right thing would have been for Snowden to raise his concerns his supervisory chain and they would have seen to it that the improprieties were dealt with...
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Impossible. I’ve been told many times on FR that instead of running off to a foreign country the right thing would have been for Snowden to raise his concerns his supervisory chain and they would have seen to it that the improprieties were dealt with...
Yeah. My mom said the same, and since she gets all her news from Fox, they must have been bleating the same. Right. It can’t be that our government is a little corrupt, can it. Naw.
Just look at the Whistleblowers in Benghazi. Tore to shreds and shipped to American Sibera(Chicago).
That's pretty much what I was thinking. Poppy loved the jackboots. But, it was inevitable. People fear and despise liberty.
More like people merely abuse it to one extent or another.
It’s unlikely the story is true. If he had he must have informed them by note while he was in the air to Hong Kong.
Had he informed his superiors in regards to NSA data tapping abuse on a country wide scale ... he would have been immediately suspect, and if he worked with the family jewels he would have been having his exit interview and reminded of the penalties for violating his non-disclosures.
Of course, Sandy Berger walked into a archive library and made off with confidential documents so your mileage may vary.
If you wonder how something like this could happen in America, look @ FR. We have about a dozen posts on this issue. How many do we have on Obama/Aretha Franklin?
So, who do I believe? The NSA? Or Snowden. I think I’ll go with Snowden.
And lots of posters who still think Snowden should be shot are starting to keep quiet.
1989
That’s pretty much what I was thinking. Poppy loved the jackboots. But, it was inevitable. People fear and despise liberty.
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Boy I would love to hear the story behind those words.
Snowdon looked at everyone. The scary thing is that he could not find anyone in our government clean enough to go to. Not in the Executive, Judicial or Legislative branch. Think about it.
You’ve noticed that too, eh?
Some of these “law and order conservatives” are finally starting to remedy their cranial/rectal compaction issues.
I've always believed there were people like Mr. Snowden who were unidentified and undetected, working in our government. I also naively thought they were plentiful and well connected enough to keep things in good order. That, unfortunately has probably been proven with the whole Snowden affair to be completely wrong headed and absolutely false.
Not in the Executive, Judicial or Legislative branch, can we expect to find supporters of liberty. Or to be more specific, tolerance for whistle blowers or adherents to constitutional restraints.
I hope you meant to write "the crown jewels," 'cause if you didn't, then...well, just damn...
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