GOP Rep. Reportedly Floated Idea of Charging Snowden with Murder

Mike Rogers, Republican congressman and chair of the House Intelligence Committee, really doesn’t like Edward Snowden. He has called on the government to get Snowden back by any means necessary, charged that he had foreign help, and even targeted one of the journalists who Snowden gave documents to.

And now, according to a report from The Huffington Post UK, he actually proposed that Snowden be charged with murder.

Here’s what Rogers reportedly said:

“The [US] government has pressed charges on Mr Snowden. 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.”

It’s not that Snowden himself killed a man, it’s that, as Rogers argues, his leaking of secret NSA documents put the lives of American servicemembers at even greater risk, and for that he should be considered a traitor.

[h/t TPM]
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