[LATIMES] Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden has denied intimations from U.S. politicians that he colluded with Russian intelligence operatives to steal classified information from the National Security Agency."Nah. I just generically kinda spied. Anybody could have the data, as long as it hurt that U.S."
In a rare interview said to have been conducted via encrypted email from his refuge in Moscow, Snowden told the New Yorker magazine that "this 'Russian spy' push is absurd."
Snowden was accused by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of being a "thief, who we believe had some help."
"I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms -- of an FSB agent in Moscow," Rogers said during a Sunday interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." "I don't think that's a coincidence."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
(D-Calif.) was asked by "Meet the Press" host David Gregory if she too thought Snowden had been assisted in his dramatic absconding with a trove of secret files from the NSA.
"He may well have," said Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But she added that U.S. authorities "don't know at this stage."