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Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), The Maximum Democrat of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Thursday afternoon that he would not support Tullesi Gabbard for the Director of National Intelligence after her deny —Se into sentence Edward Snowden of the NSA.
Speaking with Lawrence O’Donnell in MSNBC, Warner expressed concern that Gabbard during his Thursday hearing repeatedly refused to label Snowden a traitor after filtering thousands of classified documents and fled to Russia.
“We get about half of our intelligence from our allies around the world. There is no requirement to share it with us. They share it in trust. If this individual cannot say that Edward Snowden, to share our secrets and other secrets, is a traitor, these other countries, our five eye partners, partners from all over the world, the Mossad de Israel will share this information with us. Continuous form? This will make us weaker if they do not share it, “said Warner, referring to the Israeli intelligence unit and the intelligence alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States
“If you are not willing to defend -y, if you are not willing to send a signal, this role of National Intelligence Director, you have 18 agencies, $ 100 billion, if you are not willing to call Edward Snowden as In a traitor, you should not have this job. “
Warner said he was “happy to say -you and your audience tonight that I will definitely vote against Ms. Gabbard”.
His refusal was also considered a smoke to the GOP, and he called into question if his candidacy will move forward.
In private I had it Gabbardintended to assume the senatorsabout their opinions on Snowden.
But there was a key moment during Gabbard’s view when the Sen.James Lankford(R-Okla.) He asked if he considers Snowden as a “traitor”, advising him that members of the intelligence box would feel much better with his candidacy if he did.
Instead, Gabbard asked two questions about whether Snowden betrayed the nation, saying -the legislators are “focused on the future and how we can prevent something from happening again”, referring to theft of Snowden secret documents.
At another point in sight, Gabbard said that Snowden “broke the law”, a phrase he repeated during Thursday’s hearing, but then quickly turned to talk about “my focus in the future.”
Lankford said it should have been an “easy question” to say that it is “universally accepted when stealing a million pages of more secret documents and deliver it to the Russians, which is a treacherous act.”
