House Intelligence Committee urges no pardon for Edward Snowden

The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him not to pardon Edward Snowden, asserting that the former National Security Agency contractor carried out “the largest and most damaging” leak of classified information in U.S. history.

The letter emerged on the same day that the panel unanimously voted to adopt a classified report on Snowden that, according to a three-page unclassified summary, portrays him as a disgruntled employee whose leak caused “tremendous damage to national security.”