House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Tuesday that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the extent of government surveillance on Americans, which might explain why Tulsi Gabbard hesitated to call him a traitor during her Senate confirmation hearing.

Jordan told “Finnerty” that Gabbard, a former Democrat representative from Hawaii and President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, recognized the significance of the information Snowden revealed.

“I think she believes that the information we got from Snowden helped us understand what we later learned was the government actually spying on the American people,” Jordan said.

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