Republicans in the Senate — some, anyway — raised their eyebrows in surprise when Tulsi Gabbard, the president’s pick to lead up national intelligence, refused to say whether Edward Snowden was a ...

transcript Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was repeatedly asked during her confirmation hearing whether Edward Snowden was a traitor for leaking c ...

Kenny Holston/The New York Times “Edward Snowden was an egotistical serial liar and traitor who jeopardized the safety of Americans and allies,” Mr. Cotton wrote on social media in 2016.

In a back-and-forth Thursday that at times grew heated ... she would push to pardon Snowden, or whether she considered him a traitor. On the last question, Gabbard repeatedly declined to answer. “Yes ...

In 2020, then-Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced legislation calling on the federal government to drop all charges against Edward Snowden ... pressed multiple times for a yes ...

Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard’s views on former National Security Agency contractor Edward ... at them. Snowden did just that. Yet you have argued many times that ...

A key issue was her past support for Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed US surveillance programmes and fled to Russia. She said she would not recommend a pardon for Snowden ...

Eric Schmitt (R-MO) twisted himself in knots to avoiding stating whether he considers Snowden — who stole more than a million classified documents — a traitor. “Is Edward Snowden a traitor?” ...

The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin summed up the exchange on X, writing, “Senator Bennet asks four times “Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?” Tulsi refuses to ...

But it was her statements about Edward Snowden ... on multiple occasions that Snowden broke the law, she stood firm in ways that seemed at times to frustrate even some Republicans on the panel.