NSA has neither fired nor admonished any of its personnel in connection with the leak, NSA official says. NSA is conducting an investigation to determine whether specific individuals should be held accountable. NSA has instituted a range of mechanisms to insure that the agency would be able to catch someone who tried to repeat precisely what Snowden did, he says. The leak by former contractor Edward Snowden of details about two top-secret intelligence-gathering programs surfaced based on the Snowden leak. The Senate hearing focused on whether the federal government should limit how it collects metadata on information generated by telephone records.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/whos-to-blame-at-nsa-for-snowden-leak-a-5956