Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has already made it clear that he thinks former NSA contractor Edward Snowden committed treason, but now the congressman says that Snowden should be charged with murder.
“The government has pressed charges on Mr. Snowden,” Rogers said during a meeting with the House of Commons in London, according to the Huffington Post UK. “We are treating him, as I would argue, the traitor that he is.”
“And by the way, and this is important, I would charge him for murder,” he added.
Rogers argued that Snowden’s actions led to the deaths of American and British soldiers.
“He took information that allows force protection, not only for British soldiers, but for U.S. soldiers, and made it more difficult for us to track those activities. Meaning it is more likely that one of those soldiers is going to get their legs blown off or killed because of his actions,” he said. “Anybody that provides information to the enemy is a traitor, period, pure and simple.”
He said that Snowden didn’t only take materials related to the National Security Agency’s spying practices, but also information “about tactical things, military plans and operations.”
