Leaker's Ties to China Probed

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Leaker's Ties to China Probed

By SIOBHAN HUGHES And SIOBHAN GORMAN

WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers briefed Thursday on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs trained their fire on the self-described source of the leaks, Edward Snowden, suggesting he may be cooperating with the Chinese government.

Without presenting any evidence, the top two lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee raised questions about whether Mr. Snowden, 29, has defected to Hong Kong and has any ties to China. "Clearly, we're going to make sure that there's a thorough scrub of what his China connections are," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R., Mich.).

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The comments by Mr. Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D., Md.), the panel's ranking Democrat, followed a three-hour closed-door committee meeting with Gen. Keith Alexander, the National Security Agency director who also is head of the U.S. Cyber Command, who provided more details about two NSA programs whose documents Mr. Snowden revealed to newspapers last week.

Their comments came a day after Mr. Snowden said in a published interview that he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, including hundreds in Hong Kong and on the Chinese mainland.

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(Snowden)...Showed Hong Kong Newspaper Documents Revealing US Hacking Attacks On China (updated 2x)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023001669

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