The Obama administration and former intelligence contractor Edward
Snowden offered divergent accounts Thursday of his efforts to raise
concerns about National Security Agency activity more than a year ago,
as each side tried to shape the debate over whether the massive leak of
classified information was avoidable.
Intelligence officials released a brief e-mail that Snowden wrote in April 2013 inquiring about legal authorities but raising no concerns about any particular NSA program or law. The suggestion was that the e-mail did not make Snowden a whistleblower. U.S. officials said the NSA had found no other evidence that he had expressed concerns to anyone in a position of authority or oversight...
... Congress is weighing legislation to carry out President Obama’s call to end one program — the NSA’s mass collection of data about Americans’ phone calls.
“Ultimately, whether my disclosures were justified does not depend on whether I raised these concerns previously,” Snowden said. “That’s because the system is designed to ensure that even the most valid concerns are suppressed and ignored, not acted upon.”
On Thursday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also released the e-mail exchange. The panel last month had asked the NSA for any communications between Snowden and the agency relating to the legality of NSA programs.
more at Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/e-mail-snowden-sent-to-nsa-counsel-is-released/2014/05/29/4cc43410-e760-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html
Intelligence officials released a brief e-mail that Snowden wrote in April 2013 inquiring about legal authorities but raising no concerns about any particular NSA program or law. The suggestion was that the e-mail did not make Snowden a whistleblower. U.S. officials said the NSA had found no other evidence that he had expressed concerns to anyone in a position of authority or oversight...
... Congress is weighing legislation to carry out President Obama’s call to end one program — the NSA’s mass collection of data about Americans’ phone calls.
“Ultimately, whether my disclosures were justified does not depend on whether I raised these concerns previously,” Snowden said. “That’s because the system is designed to ensure that even the most valid concerns are suppressed and ignored, not acted upon.”
On Thursday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also released the e-mail exchange. The panel last month had asked the NSA for any communications between Snowden and the agency relating to the legality of NSA programs.
more at Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/e-mail-snowden-sent-to-nsa-counsel-is-released/2014/05/29/4cc43410-e760-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html
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