NSA, Snowden Clash Over 2013 Internal Email Release

[MADem]

11. If he raised concerns ten times or more he must have ten documents to support his claim.

You know, any time I had to have a contentious meeting with anyone for any reason, I'd take notes, state and restate my points, endeavor to make clear what my opposite number was trying to say, and then MEMORIALIZE the conversation in a memo that I would share with everyone at the meeting and in the chain of command. It's Ass Covering 101.

And why, if he had "no legal avenue" was he bringing this up at all?

Something stinks--and it smells like it's coming from Snowden, frankly. He's not coming off as believable.

Anyone who talks like he's smarter than everyone else, who knows "the game" better than the rest of the rubes back at the farm, should know that you document, you memorialize, you cross every T, dot every i, and you don't rely on verbal orders. Get. It. In. Writing. Otherwise, it didn't happen.