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In reply to the discussion: NSA Releases Email Snowden Sent Before Leaks [View all]Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)79. NSA, Snowden clash over 2013 internal email release
Source: Reuters
NSA, Snowden clash over 2013 internal email release
By Warren Strobel
WASHINGTON | Thu May 29, 2014 9:21pm EDT
By Warren Strobel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An email exchange released on Thursday shows Edward Snowden questioned the U.S. National Security Agency's legal training programs, but provides no evidence the former contractor complained internally about vast NSA surveillance programs that he later leaked to the media.
Snowden responded in an email to the Washington Post that the release by U.S. officials "is incomplete."
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"Many, many of these individuals were shocked by these programs," Snowden said, adding that he was advised: "If you say something about this, they're going to destroy you."
The emails were first released by the office of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Snowden told the Post there were other emails "and not just on this topic. Im glad theyve shown they have access to records they claimed just a few months ago did not exist, and I hope well see the rest of them very soon." The email exchange appears to be the first internal communication by Snowden, while he was working for the NSA, to be released publicly.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0E92DK20140530
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But you were the 1st to get here. Oh, did you get this month's issue yet? I know you're a HUGE fan.
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#9
There is sure t'be a pot o'gold at the far end, if we just follow along as the wee man told us t'do!
struggle4progress
May 2014
#11
The email exchange doesn't "help" Snowden. It makes him look like a bit of a liar.
MADem
May 2014
#24
If there are no emails from Snowden to his bosses about these overreaches, the question HAS to be
MADem
May 2014
#54
Data collection is the issue for me, NSA is a large part of the issue of data collection
Leme
May 2014
#36
Snowden has MADE the story about Snowden, by his actions, by his insistence that he
MADem
May 2014
#39
You're convoluting federal agencies. NSA doesn't have an army, they collect signals.
MADem
May 2014
#68
He's not "complaining" or "whistleblowing." He's asking specific questions about the contents of a
MADem
May 2014
#31
He's insisting there are more emails. He needs to produce them. The onus is on him.
MADem
May 2014
#59
Well since the NSA has spent months saying they didn't have ANY emails, and now it turns ou they do
riderinthestorm
May 2014
#10
Wouldn't a super secret double naught spy keep copies? I mean he stole a million documents. Really?
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#14
Worst Spy Ever, indeed! Ends up in Russia because ooops.. and tries to blame it on the US..
Cha
May 2014
#49
The Insider is reporting that the interview was held only feet away from Putin's office.
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#52
Really?! and, he "has no relations with Russia"?! Did you see that he said he couldn't
Cha
May 2014
#53
I'm catching up today. I didn't watch those smarmy bastards. Can't stand to look...
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#56
How did he manage to get a front-and-center video appearance on the "Ask the Pootster" show?
MADem
May 2014
#88
After the beat-down he gave Ted Shackley back in the nineties, I can't see the CIA cozying up to
MADem
May 2014
#84
Yesterday, many people were insisting it proved Snowden had raised concerns
struggle4progress
May 2014
#16
That view, of course, is reinforced by the fact that Snowden has said he sought his last BAH job
struggle4progress
May 2014
#19