He wrote a letter to NSA’s Office of the General Counsel asking whether or not NSA directives take precedence over acts of Con- gress. A lawyer from the Office of the General Counsel responded three days later, addressing Snowden as “Dear Ed.” The lawyer said that acts of Congress take precedence over NSA directives. He also sugge

to Rajesh De, just assembling these reports involved thousands of hours of manpower. In addition, the President’s Oversight Board required that NSA’s Office of the General Counsel and Inspector General supply it every 90 days with a list of every single error made by every NSA employee anywhere in the world deviating from proce

ces.” Additionally, che Department of Commerce’s Office of the General Counsel maintains a website, http://www. commerce.gov/os/