Former national intelligence head Sue Gordon took issue with Tulsi Gabbard’s push for an Edward Snowden pardon on ‘Face the Nation’
Former principal deputy director of national intelligence Sue Gordon doesn’t like Tulsi Gabbard’s push for Edward Snowden to receive a presidential pardon. She told Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that the request “reflects a lack of understanding of who we are, and it reflects a lack of respect for what we do.”
Gordon continued, “Unauthorized disclosures of intelligence are always bad. Don’t go with the good or bad, any good outcome or whether he was right or wrong. He had no authority, and he had different paths, and he harmed America.”
“He not only harmed intelligence, he harmed our allies and partners, and he harmed our businesses by what it allowed China to assume about that. There is nothing justifiable about what he’s done. None. And so if they vacate it, what they’re basically saying is all those rules you follow in order to be able to serve America, they don’t matter anymore.
