But for some lawmakers another issue looms just as large: Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who released reams of classified data on American surveillance programs in 2013 and then ...

Hours before Tulsi Gabbard appeared for a combative hearing on her nomination as director of national intelligence on Thursday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave some public advice to the ...

Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled President Donald Trump's DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard over her previous remarks praising whistleblower Edward Snowden.

“Edward Snowden’s disclosure of this program to journalists was in the public interest.” Oh, his disclosure of one NSA program to some trusted journalists? Is that all Ms. Gabbard believes ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence, repeatedly refused to call Edward Snowden a “traitor” during her Senate confirmation hearing.

In 2020, then-Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced legislation calling on the federal government to drop all charges against Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor ...

“Edward Snowden broke the law,” she said. “He also exposed information that revealed the United States’ government’s illegal activities.” Snowden’s leaks prompted Congress to pass ...

“Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America? That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high.” Throughout her testimony, Gabbard insisted she believes ...

But it was her statements about Edward Snowden, the prolific leaker of national secrets, that generated the most colorful moments of her three hours of public testimony. Senators from both sides ...

Warner, the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, took aim at Gabbard’s past praise for Edward Snowden – the former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified ...