NSA Releases Email Snowden Sent Before Leaks

[struggle4progress]

NSA Releases Email Snowden Sent Before Leaks

Zeke J Miller
2:29 PM ET

... The email, dated April 5, 2013—more than a month before he released a trove of secret documents to reporters but after he had already been in contact with them—shows Snowden asking the agency’s lawyers whether Executive Orders can trump federal statute and whether regulations from the Department of Defense or Office of Director of National Intelligence can take precedence over the other. An employee of the general counsel’s office replied to Snowden three days later, answering that executive orders have the force of law but cannot override federal law, and that DOD and ODNI regulations are treated with equal weight. But the email was sent months after his initial contacts with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald when he first showed interest in leaking documents ...

[grasswire]

1. already posted several times...

...with quite a bit of discussion.

[MohRokTah]

2. WOW! THIS IS A GAME CHANGER!! LOOK AT SNOWDEN OFFICIALLY WHISTLEBLOW!!!!!