Well, this was bound to happen. U.S. lawmakers said Thursday that the House Intelligence Committee — the same committee that trashed Chinese telecommunications companies last year — will conduct a “thorough scrub” of connections between China and Eric Snowden. Snowden — a “traitor,” according to Committee chairman Mike Rogers, R.-Mich. — is reportedly responsible for last week’s leaks blowing the top off of the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM data-collecting program. He is now believed to be in Hong Kong.
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From the Inevitable Files: Lawmakers Scrutinize Snowden-China Connections
Posted by: David Vranicar June 14, 2013 11:36 AMWell, this was bound to happen. U.S. lawmakers said Thursday that the House Intelligence Committee — the same committee that trashed Chinese telecommunications companies last year — will conduct a “thorough scrub” of connections between China and Eric Snowden. Snowden — a “traitor,” according to Committee chairman Mike Rogers, R.-Mich. — is reportedly responsible for last week’s leaks blowing the top off of the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM data-collecting program. He is now believed to be in Hong Kong.