New Documents Reveal That Edward Snowden Did Contact NSA Officials To Express His Concerns Over Mass Surveillance

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Jason Leopold, Marcy Wheeler, and Ky Henderson, VICE News: Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal

On the morning of May 29, 2014, an overcast Thursday in Washington, DC, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Robert Litt, wrote an email to high-level officials at the National Security Agency and the White House.

The topic: what to do about Edward Snowden.

Snowden's leaks had first come to light the previous June, when the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman published stories based on highly classified documents provided to them by the former NSA contractor. Now Snowden, who had been demonized by the NSA and the Obama administration for the past year, was publicly claiming something that set off alarm bells at the agency: Before he leaked the documents, Snowden said, he had repeatedly attempted to raise his concerns inside the NSA about its surveillance of US citizens — and the agency had done nothing.

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Update #1: Edward Snowden Had Greater Government Interaction Than Initially Revealed, Investigation Finds (IBTimes)
Update #2: Snowden Tried to Raise Concerns over Mass Surveillance, Documents Reveal (Sputnik)

WNU Editor: Kudos to VICE News for doing this report. It puts into question the entire NSA case that Edward Snowden did not properly inform NSA officials his surveillance concerns ....when in fact he did. Another NSA twisting of the truth .... it looks like it.

This Edward Snowden story has now been going on for 3 years, and this blog has been extensively covering it since day one. During this entire time everything that Edward Snowden has put forward and discussed has been proven right. Much .... if not everything from the NSA, White House, Congressional oversight committees, etc. on the Edward Snowden issue .... has been proven wrong and/or a lie.

I am someone who does understand the importance of secrets. and the need to monitor and conduct surveillance of our adversaries. I am also someone who values our need for privacy ... and the need to find a balance between the two. But how the NSA has handled the Edward Snowden case .... and the revelations on their surveillance programs over the past 3 years .... I have lost my trust and faith in these national security institutions .... because it is clear to me that they have lost trust and faith in the American people.