NSA says Snowden e-mails exempt from public disclosure and secret

[MADem]

329. What you are terming a "lie" is not that at all.

If you said that you had exchanged "national security" emails with a government agency, and the only emails they had on file were your personnel emails, medical leave emails, disciplinary emails, and they refused to release those, I wouldn't say they were "lying" when they didn't acknowledge their content. I'd say they were protecting your privacy.

They have said, repeatedly, that he did NOT raise national security concerns in any emails. Asking for clarification of a definition following a training class is not raising concerns--even he said as much.

This is about Snowden, in that, if he wants to be believed, he has to cough up some proof of his claims. Surely, a guy who is "smart" enough to steal all those goodies over a period of many months is "smart enough" to take the few bits of proof that could exonerate him?

Why doesn't he just DO it? Release the kraken, now--he keeps playing games, it's PAST time for the Big Gotcha--so why hasn't he played his "Ah HA!!" card? Maybe those emails are all in his head, and were never put in writing?

As I said, Linda Tripp got six hundred thousand bucks because someone who wasn't authorized had a peek at her personnel file. He wants to let it all hang out, he needs to issue a release, and then we'll be able to see EVERYTHING he has written. Let's do! If he doesn't want it all hanging out, he needs to release the stuff himself. It's put up or shut up time.