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Edward Snowden may have been aided by the Russians, say House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
Three top lawmakers suggested Sunday that Edward Snowden may have had help from Russia when he leaked documents on National Security Agency surveillance activities.
Snowden “was a thief who we believe had some help,” Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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“I believe there’s a reason he ended up in the hands — the loving arms — of an FSB [Russian security] agent in Moscow. I don’t think that’s a coincidence,” Rogers (R-Ala.) said. “I believe there are questions to be answered there. I don’t think it was a gee-whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow.”
Snowden, a former government contractor, has gained temporary asylum in Russia. He left the United States last June after disclosing reams of documents that exposed widespread surveillance by the NSA.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), also on said “Meet the Press” that Snowden “may well have” had help from Russia.
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) made similar allegations.
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“I personally believe that he was cultivated by a foreign power to do what he did,” he said. “I don’t think … Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself.”
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