The US is doubling down on Snowden, insinuating that he is a spy again…just as Snowden said they would.
White House rejects clemency for Edward Snowden over NSA leaks
….Pfeiffer told ABC’s This Week that no clemency offers were being discussed following Snowden’s appeal in a letter released by a German lawmaker who met him in Moscow.
Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California, remained implacable. "He’s done this enormous disservice to our country. I think the answer is ‘no clemency’," she told CBS’s Face the Nation.
The former NSA contractor could have blown the whistle on excesses by contacting the House and Senate intelligence committees, Feinstein said. "We would certainly have seen him … and looked at that information. That didn’t happen."
…Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former FBI agent. He **echoed Feinstein’s response on Face the Nation, saying the leaker had violated an oath of secrecy and stole information. “**He needs to come back and own up,” Roger said.
Rogers also accused Snowden of cooperating with Russian intelligence – “the Russians are not allowing him to stay in the country just because they think he’s a nice guy” – and of helping three al-Qaida-linked groups to change the way they communicate in order to evade US intercepts, putting troops’ lives at risk in Afghanistan.
Rogers, the NSA’s strongest congressional supporter, said the media and public’s focus should be not on supposed surveillance excesses but on efforts to counter terrorism and cyber attacks. "The bad guys candidly are not US intelligence agencies," he said. “They are the good guys at the end of the day.”
