NSA Director Says Agency Wants to Release Transparency Reports of Its Own

National Security Agency Deputy Director Rick Ledgett called former contractor Edward Snowden’s release of documents about his agency’s surveillance programs “inappropriate” and “arrogant” in a video interview from Fort Meade (MD), beamed into the TED conference in Vancouver.

But he acknowledged that the outcry around the Snowden revelations has led the NSA to try to be more transparent.

“The vulnerabilities we find, the overwhelming majority we disclose to the people who are responsible for manufacturing or developing those products,” Ledgett said. “We’re actually working on a proposal right now to be transparent and to publish transparency reports in the same way the Internet companies do.”