“Amash cautions that you need to have actual facts to support allegations, and in the meanwhile, he’d favor focusing on what previously unknown information is now known to Americans. ‘Members of Congress were on the whole not aware of what these programs were being used for,’ he says, and in that respect, he considers him a ‘whistleblower’ for the time being. ‘He may be doing things overseas that we’ll find to be problematic or dangerous, we’ll find those facts out over time,’ he says, ‘but as far as Congress is concerned, sure, he’s a whistleblower. He told us what we needed to know.'”
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