Snowden responds: House report filled with ‘obvious falsehoods’

Published December 22, 2016 4:44pm ET



Edward Snowden said Thursday that a House committee wasted its time and money producing a report that criticized him for stealing more than 1 million documents, back when he was a National Security Agency contractor.

“Unsurprising that HPSCI’s report is rifled with obvious falsehoods,” Snowden tweeted of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s report. “The only surprise is how accidentally exonerating it is.”

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