NSA Still Not Sure What Snowden Took, But May Try To Pre-empt
Future Leaks
” We’ve been among those who have suggested that the best way for the NSA to deal with the upcoming NSA leaks is to just stop lying and come clean about what they’re doing. It’s such a crazy suggestion that even former NSA boss Bobby Ray Inman has suggested it as well. It looks like the NSA is considering revealing something, but it’s likely to be pretty limited:
With respect to other information held by Snowden and his allies but not yet publicized, the NSA is now considering a proactive release of some of the less sensitive material, to better manage the debate over its surveillance program.
“We’re working on how do we do that,” says Richard Ledgett, the NSA official in charge of the agency’s response to the Snowden disclosures.”
The NSA knows who Grandma Smith invited to her bridge game last week but six months later they have no idea how many documents Edward Snowden took with him . That’s confidence inspiring .
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