NSA: Snowden Is Lying and We Can Prove It
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Not surprisingly the NSA is claiming that Eddie Snowden is full of shit. In the wake of his interviews with the talented Bryan Williams the security agency did their own investigation only to learn that nothing Snowden said was true.
Snowden, a traitor, not a whistleblower, tried to make a case for the latter saying that he had made a number of efforts to inform the spymasters of various abuse but he was ignored, and therefore forced to strike out on his own, finally running away so as not to be brought to book for his crimes.
In his recent interview with NBC, Snowden reiterated that he had raised a number of concerns with his superiors at the NSA and only went to the media after being given the brush off and told to be quiet.
Yesterday, however, the NSA vigorously disputed that, saying that it can find only one email from Snowden, on a relatively technical matter, reports Wired. “The e-mail did not raise allegations or concerns about wrongdoing or abuse, but posed a legal question that the Office of General Counsel addressed,” says an agency statement. It adds that Snowden could have aired his worries via “numerous avenues,” but “we have searched for additional indications of outreach from him in those areas and to date have not discovered any engagements related to his claims.” In other words there is no record of Snowden attempting to report any wrongdoing or abuse.
Not unexpectedly Snowden’s ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner says: “Snowden raised many complaints over many channels. The NSA is releasing a single part of a single exchange after previously claiming that no evidence existed.”
You can read the newly released email in full here. In it, Snowden asks for clarification on whether executive orders issued by the president supersede laws. A government lawyer responds that Snowden is correct in his observation that “E.O.s cannot override a statute.”
After addressing another matter, the lawyer ends with, “Please give me a call if you would like to discuss further,” notesAP. This may not settle much of anything, but at least “Snowden’s claim and the NSA’s response are now good material for his next interview,” observes a post at Mother Jones.
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It isn’t as if any reasonable human still believes the USA is a country. Think about it. Warrant wire taps, definite detention of citizens with charges, disapproval of rendition of prisoners and torture, stop and frisk with improbable cause, search and seizure with a warrant, knock entry, confiscation and destruction of pornographic magazines that might have been used to film children acting legally, police pleasantry, police charity events that go with investigation, freedom of the press, and the civil-rights enhancing “Patriot” Act.
Acts of police behaving legally, without shootings, lasers, and warranted violence now appear almost unnoticable. Rarely are these defenses published. Most often an investigation is fully performed, but never forgotten.
In addition, the USA, with 25% of the world population, has 2% of all of the prisoners in the world. That means the USA has the least people in prison of any nation in history. Even by percentage of residents incarcerated, not just sheer numbers. USA is last .
Does any of that sound like a muslim country?
As Dwight T. Eisenhowers said about capitalism, “It’s like slicing cucumber. First they out off a large slice. That is worth fighting over. Then they take another large slice that isn’t worth fighting over. Then another and another and another and another and another and another. Finally, all you have left is a quarter of a cucumber which will still be useful in a salad or several sandwiches.
Sorry but you couldn’t be more wrong about the police and your allegations are unsupported by the facts. What could possibly make you think that the police have all of a sudden decided to forget about the 4th amendment? It just isn’t true. The police are under more scrutiny today than at any other time in history.
Excuse me Sir but I must respectfully disagree. Your police force and security services have turned your country into a replica of 1980s East Germany and I fear it will suffer the same fate. Your culture of surveillance, distrust, and obsession with – and lack of understanding of – crime serves to only damage you further. How you can believe that you can benefit from living in a climate of fear is beyond me. You may think that it does not affect you because you ‘do not do anything wrong’ but what happens when the government changes the definition of ‘wrong’?
Total BS Martin and since you appear to be judging from a distance why don’t you just visit. Comparing the US to East Germany is just plain silly. There is absolutely no comparison and the police in America are doing a great job given the fact that everyone in the bloody country is carrying a gun and wanting to shoot them.
Well, I don’t know if I believe Snowden per se, but I definitely know I don’t believe the NSA. The U.S. government spies on its citizens. I have taken that as fact, since the Echelon days of the ’80s.
Well yeah David. Doesn’t bother me. They can spy all they want on me. Listen to my calls, hear my barking dogs, and my slurred voice when I’ve had one too many (not so much of that lately). If listening to millions help to stop an attack that could kill millions I have no problem with it. On the contrary. Do your thing NSA and all the best to ya….
Mike, I am leaning your way, especially since they have found that about a hundred American citizens are in Syria fighting with Al Queda. They will have every right to come back to their homes here and then what? Are we going to have to worry about these nut cases attacking us from within our on borders forever?
I am going to wait to pass judgement on that James. According to some earlier reports Snowden has acknowledged that he intentionally got into his position to do just what he did. This makes sense to me because one does not normally jump from security guard to intelligence analyst in one big leap. There were avenues outside his chain of command that could have handled the information much better than the press and possibly the Chinese and the Russians. Regardless of his claims I will not forget the veiled threat of him having the names of all of our foreign agents and he could release them. For the present Greenwald, the writer for the Guardian, and presumably Snowden are making a lot of money off the book that has recently been published. Right now it is up in the air as to who do I trust and I look at who could do me and the country the most harm. While Snowden may have good intentions it was not his call to make.
Wellllll….How would we know if his ‘complaints’ had been conveniently ‘lost’ and, therefore, never existed?
I’m not for one moment suggesting a government body would actually lie…..surely not!
Don’t know. Just saying. Me? Cynical? Never!
Of course, no agency of the government, especially the NSA, would ever lie about anything. So far, no proof has been shown except the NSA says it is true, so it must be true. That sounds a lot like the religious reich, doesn’t it?