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Edward Snowden Is A 'Whistle-Blower,' Rep. Justin Amash Says

Ariel Edwards-Levy at HuffPost politics

Rep. Justin Amash, (R-Mich.), a prominent NSA critic, said Sunday that Edward Snowden is a "whistle-blower" who brought to light intelligence-gathering programs that much of Congress would not have otherwise heard of.

“Without his doing what he did, members of Congress would not have really known about [those programs]," Amash told Fox's Chris Wallace. "Members of Congress were not really aware on the whole about what these programs were being used for and the extent to which they were being used. Members of the intelligence committee were told, but rank-and-file members really didn’t have the information.”