FOR ROSE MCGRATH...SO MUCH FOR PROPER CHANNELS... “The NSA has records, they have copies of emails 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,” he said. “I reported that there were real problems with the way the NSA was interpreting its legal authorities, and the response more or less in bureaucratic language was, ‘You should stop asking questions,’” he said. “These are recent records; this isn’t ancient history. One of my final official acts in government was continuing one of these communications with a legal office.” He also says he raised his concerns with supervisors and colleagues, many of whom were shocked by the programs and agreed with him that the NSA might be going too far but warned him that he would be destroyed if he made an issue of it. Williams said that NBC had so far confirmed that Snowden had sent at least one email to the general counsel’s office raising policy and legal questions. Snowden has said in the past that he raised concerns inside the NSA more than ten times before he took his concerns outside the NSA to journalists.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:55:05 +0000
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