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Title: Snowden had been invited to a pole dancing competition in China ... he queried security officials --- about whether they could attend.
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URL Source: https://news.vice.com/article/edwar ... urveillance-concerns-exclusive
Published: Jun 4, 2016
Author: Jason Leopold, Marcy Wheeler, Ky Hender
Post Date: 2016-06-04 18:14:09 by BorisY
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Snowden's email, which would go on to spark so much debate at the highest levels of government, from the NSA to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to Congress to the White House, was inspired by a question on a training test. The NSA portrayed it as an innocuous question that elicited a direct response when it released the email in 2014. But the declassified documents tell a somewhat different story, with multiple people from different departments becoming involved in formulating an answer. On April 5, 2013 — a year before the Vanity Fair story came out — Snowden clicked the "email us" link on the internal website of the NSA's Office of General Counsel (OGC) and wrote, "I have a question regarding the mandatory USSID 18 training." United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18 (USSID 18) encompasses rules by which the NSA is supposed to abide in order to protect the privacy of the communications of people in the United States. Snowden was taking this and other training courses in Maryland while working to transition from a Sysadmin to an analyst position. Referring to a slide from the training program that seemed to indicate federal statutes and presidential Executive Orders (EOs) carry equal legal weight, Snowden wrote, "this does not seem correct, as it seems to imply Executive Orders have the same precedence as law. My understanding is that EOs may be superseded by federal statute, but EOs may not override statute." About 20 minutes after Snowden sent the email, an OGC office manager forwarded it to the Signals Intelligence Oversight and Compliance training group — the people who had designed the test. "OGC received the question below regarding USSID 18 training but I believe this should have gone to your org instead," the office manager wrote. "Can you help with this?" The office manager also cc'd Snowden. But the next working day, April 8, the email and question were sent right back to the OGC. The woman who did this would later explain to NSA investigators, "Although I felt comfortable answering his question, I thought it was more appropriate for OGC to respond since the authority documents include legalities and the individual wanted them ranked in precedence order." So she forwarded the email to two OGC attorneys who "had recently provided the hierarchy of the authorities" in the training program to which Snowden was referring. Snowden's email was unusual, the lawyer recalled. Indeed, a Security & Counterintelligence official said in an email a year later that officials had spoken to "the lawyer who responded to Snowden's inquiry and she remembered considering calling Snowden since the inquiry was out of the ordinary. However, she decided not to and instead in her email invites him to call her if he wanted further discussion. She does not recall any actual telephonic contact by Snowden." When one of the lawyers responded to Snowden that Monday, she cc'd five people: three in the Oversight and Compliance Office (referred to at the agency with the acronym SV), as well as two other OGC lawyers. The lawyer who responded to Snowden explained to him in an email, "Executive Orders (E.O.s) have the 'force and effect of law.' That said, you are correct that E.O.s cannot override a statute." Snowden read this email, then put it in a folder in his inbox. In a recent interview with VICE News, Litt, who in 2014 had expressed misgivings about the email before reversing himself, said: "To the extent Snowden was saying he raised his concerns internally within NSA, no rational person could read this as being anything other than a question about an unclear single page of training." Less than six weeks after he sent the email, Snowden would be on a plane to Hong Kong with thousands of highly classified government documents. In a report on the subsequent investigation, a special agent pointed out what Snowden had already done by the time he sent his email. About three hours before Snowden's email was publicly released — and while Hayden, De, Litt, and the NSA's public affairs team continued to debate the merits of the release — a special agent assigned to the NSA's counterintelligence division sent an email to other counterintelligence officials about additional Snowden emails found within divisions at the NSA Snowden said he had contacted with his concerns. There were about 30 emails discovered from the security office that Snowden either sent or received. The special agent said many of them were "blast emails" from a redacted source to an email list to which Snowden belonged. There was an email thread asking Snowden to call and discuss an issue he was having with his access card. And there was a thread in which Snowden wrote that his girlfriend had been invited to a pole dancing competition in China; presumably, he queried security officials about whether they could attend. They were "counseled against... going," according to the special agent. Poster Comment: spy if get
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The correct title should be : Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal In case that's to difficult for you to understand Boris, it means that Snowden did what any patriotic American should be expected to do in that situation. spy traitor weakling jerk egomaniac Snowden is a hero. you get make love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Snowden is a hero, I can think of few others that stick their neck out openly. Most prefer to get their pensions, and kiss ass.
Less than six weeks after he sent the email, Snowden would be on a plane to Hong Kong with thousands of highly classified government documents.
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#2. To: BorisY, A K A Stone (#0)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
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