The NSA Said Edward Snowden Had No Access to Surveillance Intercepts. They Lied.

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47. And then there is this ...

Snowden's statement on the documents he stole:

“I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn’t turn over, because harming people isn’t my goal. Transparency is.”

When a cache of Snowden’s documents wound up in the hands of Der Spiegel, they declined to publish some of them: “SPIEGEL has decided not to publish details it has seen about secret operations that could endanger the lives of NSA workers."

So much for Snowden's "careful evaluation".

And ironically enough, Mr. Smarter-Than-Everyone didn't bother to "get his hands on" the emails he now claims he sent to his superiors in which he raised concerns about the legality of NSA activities. Those would be the same emails he initially denied ever sending, because to do so would have been pointless.

It was, IMHO, a calculated move. Change your story as to having sent emails, then wait for the NSA to deny having received them - then accuse the NSA of deliberately withholding emails that were never sent.