Rep. Mike Rogers and Sen. Dianne Feinstein seem to agree that Edward Snowden had help stealing NSA data. Possibly from Russia.

(The Snowden remarks start at the 3:30 mark.)

This synopsis courtesy of Raw Story:  

On Meet the Press Sunday, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Michigan Representative Mike Rogers (R), said that he believes Edward Snowden may have been working for agents of the former KGB. 

“Let me just say this,” Rogers said. “I believe there’s a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms, of an FSB agent in Moscow. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.” 

He accused Snowden of being an amateur, saying “it’s like having the janitor at a bank who figured out how to steal some money deciding matters of high finance. This was a thief who, we believe, had some help to — who stole information the vast majority of which had nothing to do with privacy.” Rogers was referring to the idea, popularized by Glenn Greenwald, that Snowden’s central concern wasn’t with sharing state secrets so much as informing Americans as to the scope of government intrusion into their lives. 

When NBC’s David Gregory pressed Rogers on the question of who helped Snowden, Rogers said “that are certain questions we have to get answered…he didn’t look for information on the privacy of Americans, he was stealing information that had to do with how we keep Americans safe.” 

“Some of the things he did were beyond his technical responsibilities,” Rogers said, suggesting that Snowden lacked the technical capability to acquire the information he did. Also suspect, according to Rogers, was “how [Snowden] arranged travel before he left, how he was ready to go. He had a go bag, if you will.”

As you can see Dianne Feinstein essentially backs up Rogers assertion, and they say that the evidence is leading them to believe that Snowden is no hero, and may in fact have distributed information, information that we as of right now know nothing about, that is potentially very detrimental to the country and the military overseas. 

I have never run into a story that I have found to be as mercurial as the Snowden story, but if these two intelligence experts are to be believed much of the beatification  bestowed on Snowden may be premature and in fact history could prove him to have a significantly villainous nature.

Let me know your take.