Report: Snowden a ‘serial exaggerator,’ not a whistleblower

Published December 22, 2016 3:51pm ET



Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower, but rather was a “serial exaggerator” and a “fabricator” who mostly stole military, defense and intelligence information unrelated to privacy or civil liberty issues, according to a new report from the House Select Intelligence Committee.

The 33-page bipartisan report also found that the U.S. Intelligence Community has not installed safeguards to prevent future acts of theft like the one Snowden committed in 2013.

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