House intelligence chair says Edward Snowden backs Russian expansionism

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

House intelligence chair says Edward Snowden backs Russian expansionism

Martin Pengelly in New York and agencies
theguardian.com, Sunday 23 March 2014 14.06 GMT

The chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee, Mike Rogers, on Sunday stood by his claim that the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who last year provided thousands of secret documents to media outlets including the Guardian, had been helped by Russia.

On Saturday, in the latest disclosure from such documents, the New York Times and the German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the NSA had obtained sensitive data form the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

Asked on NBC's Meet the Press if he had been irresponsible in making such a charge without evidence, Rogers said: “First of all, I see all the evidence and intelligence, from everything in the activities leading up to this event to very suspicious activity during the event. When you talk to the folks leading the investigation they cannot rule it out.

“No counter-terrorism official in the United States does not believe that Mr Snowden … is not under the influence of Russian intelligence services. We believe he is, I certainly believe he is today.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/nsa-chinese-company-defends-independence-huawei

[lostincalifornia]

1. I doubt it

[Autumn]

2. The word intelligence should never be used in the same sentence

as the name Mike Rogers.

[tavalon]

8. Thank you, I was about to write that

[LuvNewcastle]

3. LOL!

[sabrina 1]

4. Lol, Rogers surfaced again? Last time he made some ridiculous statement like that he disappeared

when a few journalists asked him for PROOF.

I suppose he thinks people will forget his last disastrous appearance on what passes for the news media here.

He reminds me of an internet troll.

The ones who engage in drive by personal attacks people, and when challenged, disappear for a while then come back with more of the same.

[alsame]

5. ROFL! They have a

new bogeyman for every event now.

[cui bono]

6. Next they'll have pics of him at a pole-dancing strip club in Crimea wearing a Russian uniform

that he got out of one of the boxes in his garage.

omg... how do these morons get elected???

[TheKentuckian]

7. How about the embarrassing folks saying the same crazy shit here?

[cui bono]

22. You mean like a couple posts down?

and that person is completely serious.

[TheKentuckian]

23. EDZACHERY

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. LOL. CYA by blaming the messenger. Classic.

[Whisp]

10. why wouldn't a Russian spy back Russian expansionism? n/t

[G_j]

11. so we can assume you love

Mike Rogers now?

[Whisp]

12. is that Will's Rogers' bro? Whose Mike Rogers?

guess I can't love him then if I don't know who he is.

[G_j]

14. LOL

he is mentioned in the first paragraph of the OP.

[Whisp]

15. oh, THAT Will Rogers. n/t

[grasswire]

16. who is this Russian spy you speak of?

???????????????????????????

Too many cheap novels have apparently clouded thinking.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Snowdenovitch? Snowdenokov? Snowdenokin?

Despite efforts to derive him of his rights, he's an American.

[fascisthunter]

21. I hear he eats babies too!

[Vattel]

13. Rogers is a McCarthyite slimeball.

Asked on NBC's Meet the Press if he had been irresponsible in making such a charge without evidence, Rogers said: “First of all, I see all the evidence and intelligence, from everything in the activities leading up to this event to very suspicious activity during the event. When you talk to the folks leading the investigation they cannot rule it out."

Notice that when pushed he can now only say that they "cannot rule it out." Geez, I cannot rule out that Rogers is a rapist.

“No counter-terrorism official in the United States does not believe that Mr Snowden … is not under the influence of Russian intelligence services. We believe he is, I certainly believe he is today."

No doubt Russian intelligence is trying to get what they can from him. That doesn't mean he is willingly helping them.

He (Rogers) said: “He [Snowden] is under the influence of Russian intelligence officials today [and] he is actually supporting, in an odd way, the brazen brutality and expansionism of Russia. He needs to understand that and I think Americans need to understand that in its proper context.”

So now Snowden "in an odd way" supports Russian brutality and expansionism? I guess that by the same logic Michelle Obama supports, in an odd way, Chinese brutality. Ridiculous stuff.

[grasswire]

17. Does he not care how foolish he makes himself look?

Shameful.

[LittleBlue]

18. Politician says...

You can ignore everything else after those words.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Political speech to I really do not want to pick on the POTUS on this one

but I really do not want to take on the issue either. So will take on somebody who is no longer the issue.