Snowden didn’t raise concerns internally: NSA

WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency was not able to discover confirm that leaker Edward Snowden ever raised concerns inside about its clearing reconnaissance programs, after a comprehensive inquiry that included erased messages, court archives demonstrated. 

NSA Associate Director for Policy and Records David Sherman said that the organization had dispatched an "exhaustive" examination after media reports were distributed about ordered NSA spy projects focused around data spilled by Snowden. 

As a component of a year ago's test, the NSA gathered and looked Snowden's "sent, gotten and erased email," including that "got by restoring go down tapes" Sherman said in a sworn presentation recorded on Friday. 

"The inquiry did not recognize any email composed by Mr Snowden in which he reached organization authorities to raise worries about NSA programs." 

Hunt down the messages incorporated the records from the's Office of General Counsel, Office of the Inspector General and Office of the Director of Compliance. 

The discoveries repudiate Snowden's case in a meeting with NBC News in May that he did raise concerns through "inner channels" inside the NSA and was advised to "quit making inquiries" before eventually choosing to release the mystery records. 

Sherman, who has worked with the NSA since 1985, has the power to order data as "top mystery". The NSA made its affirmation in light of a Freedom of Information Act claim recorded by VICE News against the NSA not long ago. 

The main applicable correspondence revealed was an at one time discharged email in the middle of Snowden and the Office of General Counsel asking about material in an instructional class he had finished. 

Congressperson Dianne Feinstein, who seats the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at the time that the trade "represents an inquiry regarding the relative power of laws and official requests — it doesn't enlist worries about NSA's brainpower exercises." Snowden has recommended that there was more correspondence than that solitary email, telling The Washington Post at the time that the "oddly customized and inadequate" discharge "just demonstrates the NSA feels it has something to cover up