FBI's Mueller Pledges To Get Snowden for Exposing Snooping Secrets
The feds are embarrassed
FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Thursday that the U.S. government is doing everything it can to hold confessed leaker Edward Snowden accountable for splashing surveillance secrets across the pages of newspapers worldwide.
Mueller said at a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing that Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, harmed national security when he divulged the secrets.
"As to the individual who has admitted making these disclosures, he is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation," Mueller said without naming Snowden.
Mueller added: "We are taking all necessary steps to hold the person responsible for these disclosures."
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