“I actually did go through channels, and that is documented,” he said in the interview with NBC Nightly News. “The NSA has records, they have copies of e-mails right now to their Office of General Counsel, to their oversight and compliance folks, from me raising concerns about the NSA’s interpretations of its legal authorities.” ...WaPo
"Intelligence officials" appear to have covered up an effort by Edward Snowden to "raise concerns" about the legality of NSA's eavesdropping.
In an e-mail to The Washington Post, Snowden, who last year leaked large quantities of classified documents to journalists and who is living in Russia under temporary asylum, called the official release “incomplete.”
He said it did not include his correspondence with NSA compliance officials and concerns he had raised about “indefensible collection activities.” He repeated claims that he had shown colleagues “direct evidence” of programs that they agreed were unconstitutional. ...WaPo
Yeah, yeah, responds the "intelligence community." So why didn't he take his concerns to Congress?
Maybe because contractors are not covered by whistleblower protections.
Many observers of Snowden seem to be more than a little interested in him physically. He comes off as nerdy, perhaps a little weak. A small person, not our vision of a patriot.
Quiet. Perhaps overly careful. Articulate. Maybe a narcissist? You know. Weird.
And all this says more about the commenter than about Snowden himself.
Mr. Snowden spoke lucidly, without remorse or emotion, expressing himself politely and calmly, without an “um” or a “like.” He was so fluent it almost seemed acquired – like Eliza Doolittle, of whom Zoltan Karpathy said in “My Fair Lady, “Her English is too good, he said/which clearly indicates that she is foreign.”
There was a tinge of superiority to his tone, telling Mr. Williams when his questions were “fair” and answering others as impersonally as possible. ...NYT
We should not allow this fella to get away with being articulate and inscrutable. It's unAmerican.
