U.S. House Intelligence Chairman Accuses Reporters Who Worked With Edward Snowden Of Illegally Selling Stolen NSA documents

Senior US Congressman Mike Rogers: Glenn Greenwald Is 'A Thief' -- The Guardian

* Rogers accused journalist of illegally selling NSA documents
* Congressman is chairman of the House intelligence committee
* Greenwald denounces Rogers for 'fabrications and lies'

A senior US legislator has accused the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald of illegally selling National Security Agency documents provided to him by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.

“For personal gain, he’s now selling his access to information, that’s how they’re terming it … A thief selling stolen material is a thief,” Politico quoted Rogers as saying after a committee hearing on Tuesday. Rogers said his source for the information was “other nations' press services”.

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