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.

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 ...

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be Director of National Intelligence, refused to call Edward Snowden a traitor at her ...

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 ...

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.

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?” ...

“Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United ... someone who can’t answer whether Snowden is a traitor five times?” … “I’m questioning her judgment.” Republican Sen.

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 ...

In a back-and-forth Thursday that at times ... pardon Snowden, or whether she considered him a traitor. On the last question, Gabbard repeatedly declined to answer. “Yes or no, is Edward Snowden ...

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked a vast trove ... This was an apparent reference to a New York Times story this week that reported that shortly after her ...