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In reply to the discussion: Snowden Fan Club, Sorry, But Snowden Lied about the email to the NSA General Counsel [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)The one email that has come out, thus far (and unknown if there are more) does NOT say what ES claimed he said.
It's not a "challenge to authority" about anything. It's a very politely worded question asking about precedence when it came to government documents. He got a politely worded response (that anyone taking high school civics could have answered, really--which makes me wonder if ES isn't a well spoken one-subject savant, frankly) and the OGC invited him to ask away if he had more questions.
Hardly a "Fuck you" by any means.
WORSE, the date of the inquiry was well after he started plotting with GG, et. al., to hand over all those documents he'd been stealing.
That email dealt a huge blow to ES's credibility, and it made GG and LP look like co-conspirators, not intrepid reporters.