Posted on 05/30/2014 7:48:21 PM PDT by Dave346
Fugitive Edward Snowden on Friday challenged the NSA’s insistence that it has no evidence he tried to raise concerns about the agency’s surveillance activity before he began leaking government documents to reporters, calling the response a “clearly tailored and incomplete leak ... for a political advantage.”
“The NSA's new discovery of written contact between me and its lawyers -- after more than a year of denying any such contact existed - raises serious concerns,” Snowden said in an email Friday to NBC News. “It reveals as false the NSA's claim to Barton Gellman of the Washington Post in December of last year, that ‘after extensive investigation, including interviews with his former NSA supervisors and co-workers, we have not found any evidence to support Mr. Snowden’s contention that he brought these matters to anyone’s attention.’”
Snowden’s email followed Thursday’s release by the U.S. Office of the Director of Intelligence of an email exchange between Snowden and the NSA’s Office of the General Counsel. The Washington Post received and published a similar response from Snowden on Thursday.
That email, dated April 5 , 2013, and bearing the subject line “Question for OGC re. OVSC1800 Course Content,” was a request for clarification about a legal point in training materials for a mandatory course regarding policies and procedures restricting domestic surveillance by the NSA. Its primary focus was on the question of whether an executive order issued by the president could trump a federal statute.
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The truth hurting in what regard? The NSA is behaving like the Nazis?
Aren't our enemies and their enemies supposed to be the same enemies?
They’re supposed to be, but they’re not. The NSA is more concerned with Tea Partiers, than Muslim terrorists.
Big whoopee. “I wrote a letter”is hardly striking back. He will die in Russia. Good.
With all due respect, please go pound sand.
Snowden has done this country a great service by exposing how our government is monitoring us in unconstitutional fashion.
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