Peter King Blasts Rand Paul Over Snowden: ‘What’s Happening To Our Country When This Traitor Is A Hero?’
On CNN Sunday afternoon, New York Representative Peter King denounced NSA leaker-turned international fugitive Edward Snowden and those, like Rand Paul, who are defending him.
“I wish all Americans, including Senator Rand Paul, would realize that [Snowden] is no hero,” King said emphatically. “I know on CNN today Rand Paul compared Snowden to General Clapper. I don’t know what’s happening to our country when people are making this traitor and defector into some kind of hero, and at the same time castigating a true American hero.”
Earlier on Sunday, Paul told Candy Crowley, “Mr. Clapper lied in Congress in defiance of the law in the name of security. Mr. Snowden told the truth in the name of privacy. So I think there will be a judgment because both of them broke the law, and history will have to determine.”
Like Chuck Schumer, thinks Putin had to have approved of Snowden’s arrival in Moscow. “They would not have sent him to Russia unless Putin had agreed in advance with the Chinese and with Hong Kong to allow Snowden in there and to expedite whatever’s happening Ecuador,” King said.
“We can’t allow Russia to do this without diplomatic consequences,” King continued. “The opportunity will come over the next several months or year, when Russia will need us with something involving trad,e involving diplomacy, involving finance, where the U.S. will basically say no, and we will make it difficult for Putin. He should know now not to expect any favors.”
Watch the exchange here:
