- Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:43 pm
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WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers briefed Thursday on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs trained their fire on the self-described source of the ***, 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.).
Calling the former National Security Agency contractor a "traitor," Mr. Rogers said: "We need to ask a lot more questions about his motives, his connections; where he ended up; why he is there; how is he sustaining himself while he is there; and is the Chinese government fully cooperating?"
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.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 28698.html
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.).
Calling the former National Security Agency contractor a "traitor," Mr. Rogers said: "We need to ask a lot more questions about his motives, his connections; where he ended up; why he is there; how is he sustaining himself while he is there; and is the Chinese government fully cooperating?"
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.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 28698.html