Tulsi Gabbard arrives to testify during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Gabbard pushed back that Snowden "broke the law" and does not agree with his leak of intelligence.
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"Mr. Vice Chairman, Edward Snowden broke the law. I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it. There would have been opportunities for him to come to you on this committee, or seek out the IG to release that information. The fact is, he also, even as he broke the law, released information that exposed egregious, illegal and unconstitutional programs that are happening within our government," Gabbard responded.
Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong, in a June 9, 2013, photo. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)
"If it wasn’t for Snowden, the American people would never have learned the NSA was collecting phone records and spying on Americans," she said on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast at the time.
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Gabbard appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning as part of her confirmation process to serve as the second Trump administration's director of national intelligence.
Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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