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In reply to the discussion: NSA Releases Email Snowden Sent Before Leaks [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)"tried" to whistleblow and was thwarted.
Now, it's time for Ed to prove his claims. You don't get to make accusations without being challenged to prove them. That's not how it works.
And that "email" in the OP isn't an email at all--it's a form submission, probably after he finished up that class.
He's going to have to put up or be regarded as a bit of a blowhard--at a minimum.
This isn't about any one else save Ed Snowden and the accusations that Ed Snowden is making. It's not about other whistleblowers, or cops, or drugs, or any of that stuff. You can argue about the justice/injustice re: those issues all you want, but just don't try conflating them with this issue because it doesn't cut it.
It's about Ed Snowden's insistence that the NSA knows what you are thinking before you finish typing, that they're listening to you through your phone, they're spying on you through your computer, etc., etc. It's about his assertion that he first said there was no recourse for him, and now is saying that he tried "ten or more" times to get resolution...yet the only email we are seeing is about course work in a class he took (on a form submission, too) and his questions are very generic and don't even SPEAK to the legalities of metadata collection or any of the things he has been griping about.
He has a LONG way to go before he approaches credibility in terms of his "whistleblowing" bona fides. In fact, the simple reality that he was sending encrypted emails to Greenwald at the same time he's emailing a form submission to the OGC makes him look like a bullshitter. It hurts him, it doesn't help him.