Thanks to another one of the cornerstones of our democracy, Freedom of the Press, here is an article to refute your point.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mb9mza/exclusive-snowden...
>Five days later, another email was sent — this one addressed to NSA director Mike Rogers and copied to 31 other people and one listserv. In it, a senior NSA official apologized to Rogers for not providing him and others with all the details about Snowden’s communications with NSA officials regarding his concerns over surveillance.
>The trove of more than 800 pages [see the pdf at the end of this story], along with several interviews conducted by VICE News, offer unprecedented insight into the NSA during this crisis within the agency. And they call into question aspects of the U.S. government’s long-running narrative about Snowden’s time at the NSA.
In short, it would seem that there is pretty ample evidence that some significant conversations took place between Snowden and the NSA.
You can even view the FOIA requests that revealed this information at the end of the above article.