Clapper calls on Snowden to return NSA documents

Published January 29, 2014 7:48pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Wednesday called on former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden and his “accomplices” to return the rest of the secret documents he took before making them public.

Clapper told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday that Snowden’s disclosures of National Security Agency spying have caused “profound damage” by revealing surveillance methods to terrorists, who he says are changing how the communicate to avoid detection.

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