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So yet again we have reason to trust Snowden's word and to further doubt official statements from the NSA.

• ChrisAntaki 12y ago
  > The NSA’s new discovery of written contact between me and its lawyers - after more than a year of denying any such contact existed - raises serious concerns. ^ Something Snowden says, at the start of the article
• k-mcgrady 12y ago
  As he said in the article they continue to contradict themselves. They said no communications existed - and now suddenly they have one. Why should we believe them when they say they don't have any more when they've already lied about it once?
  • mpyne 12y ago
    > They said no communications existed - and now suddenly they have one. There's no contradiction at all. He said he sent emails of a certain category. NSA still says they have no emails of that category—but they do have an email of a different sort, asking a procedural question. NSA probably has lots of emails from Snowden on file, after all. What they've said (and continue to maintain) is that they don't have any reflecting a concern (edit: typo fix) over these programs. The email they released from him certainly doesn't show any concern. Seriously, read the actual question: "I am not entirely certain, but this does not seem correct, as it seems to imply that Executive Orders have the same precedence as law." This is hardly anything even approaching a hard charge of misconduct being done. Especially so given that the General Counsel announced that they agreed with Snowden's interpretation, "That said, you are correct that E.O.s cannot override a statute."