No doubt, Snowden and his public relations flack Glenn Greenwald will now say the NSA is lying and hiding these emails. But if he really did make these complaints as he claims, wouldn’t he have kept copies? How could anyone in that position not retain their own copies of these complaints, knowing that it would be a major issue of credibility?

Yet, Snowden has not released any such copies, even though he could destroy the NSA’s claims and vindicate himself by doing so. This simply doesn’t pass even a rudimentary smell test, folks.

That’s what bothered me from the very get-go on this. I’ve never been in a whistle-blower situation, but have had times where due to a conflict, clash of personalities, variance on how certain tasks were to be performed, I made sure that I had kept copies of all the documentation on the issue, just in case.

Of course, to the true believer, lack of evidence is the proof.

RBS