Attorney General William Barr said he is “vehemently opposed” to pardoning “traitor” Edward Snowden a week after President Trump floated the idea of granting a pardon to the National Security Agency leaker and fugitive living in Russia.

“He was a traitor, and the information he provided our adversaries greatly hurt the safety of the American people,” Barr said in an interview with the Associated Press. “He was peddling it around like a commercial merchant. We can’t tolerate that.”