This board is slacking: Snowden speaks at SXSW. Crickets chirping on PT.

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"The vast majority of the documents that Snowden – Mr. Snowden – exfiltrated from our highest levels of security, the vast majority had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities," Dempsey said in response to a question from Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas. "The vast majority of those were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures."

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As he hides behind Russian protection. Patriot!!!

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Yeah I would definitely think of him as much more of a hero if he released everything and turned himself it.

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Sniveling cowards sacrifice everything to expose massive, warrantless gov't surveillance of their fellow citizens? Interesting. I think you're more of a sniveling servant to the almighty government.

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you do realize whistleblowers have no protection working in a private contract firm...and that he reportes the abuse many times and nothing was done before he went public, right?

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The National Security Agency’s top watchdog slammed Edward Snowden on Tuesday for failing to follow official protocol in relaying his concerns about wayward intelligence gathering and also faulted Congress for not vetting the details of post-9/11 surveillance programs.

“Snowden could have come to me,” George Ellard, the NSA’s inspector general, said during a panel discussion hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center.

Ellard, making his first public comments in seven years working for NSA, insisted that Snowden would have been given the same protections available to other employees who file approximately 1,000 complaints per year on the agency’s hotline system.

“We have surprising success in resolving the complaints that are brought to us,” he said.

In Snowden’s case, Ellard said a complaint would have prompted an independent assessment into the constitutionality of the law that allows for the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone metadata. But that review, he added, would have also shown the NSA was within the scope of the law.

“Perhaps it’s the case that we could have shown, we could have explained to Mr. Snowden his misperceptions, his lack of understanding of what we do,” Ellard said.

And if Snowden wasn’t satisfied, Ellard said the NSA would have then allowed him to speak to the House and Senate intelligence committees.

”Given the reaction, I think somewhat feigned, of some members of that committee, he’d have found a welcoming audience,” Ellard said in a reference to outspoken NSA critics on the panel, including Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.).

“Whether in the end he’d have been satisfied, I don’t know,” Ellard added. “But allowing people who have taken an oath to protect the constitution, to protect these national security interest, simply to violate or break that oath, is unacceptable.”

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Quite frankly I hope the NSA sees this post right now. Later I'm gonna call my wife and they can listen to that too if they like.

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I love how republicans on here preach small government but as soon as somebody exposes how large and out of control our governement has become, that person is a pussy, a traitor, and should stay and spend the rest of his life in jail. sorry but Tchefuncte I havent seen you in the news for taking arms against the govenment so sorry you are a pussy. Just the way it is, sorry.

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