Congressional investigating committees have invited mafia hit men to testify in highly publicized hearings. Why not whistleblowers? REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Will Congress Agree To A Skype Testimony From Edward Snowden? -- Jeff Stein, Newsweek
Of all the vituperation directed at NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, some of the harshest has come from Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "A traitor," Rogers called him, a "liar" who "overinflated his position... overinflated his access, and he's even overinflated what the actual technology of the [NSA] programs would allow one to do. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."
At a panel discussion early this month, Rogers laughed at a joke by former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden about his dark fantasy of putting Snowden on a kill list. "I can help you with that," he chuckled, as the audience howled.
And yet this week Rogers, a former FBI special agent, very carefully indicated that he's willing to talk to Snowden, the 30-year-old ex-NSA and CIA computer technician who has unloaded a startling cache of documents about NSA spying - with much more to come, according to his associates.
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My Comment: This NSA surveillance scandal story is not dying .... if anything ... it is escalating. I concur with Jeff Stein's analysis .... it will only be a matter of time before Edward Snowden finds himself in front of a Congressional committee explaining NSA operations and scope .... and if not the U.S. Congress .... then from some other body and forum (the EU, the German Bundestag, the United Nations, etc.).
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