Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Consultant Justin Amash adamantly claimed that now not best did Edward Snowden reveal necessary details about NSA surveillance to the general public, but in addition to many lawmakers as smartly.

“Without his doing what he did, contributors of Congress don’t have truly known about it,” Amash said. “There’s allegations that this knowledge used to be given to Congress—of course Congress handed the Patriot Act, passed the FISA amendments act—but contributors of Congress weren’t really aware, on the whole, about what these packages were getting used for, the extent to which they were being used. Contributors of the Intelligence Committee were instructed, but members who’re rank-and-file participants in point of fact didn’t have the guidelines.”

This used to be similar to Glenn Greenwald’s observation this morning on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, by which he said that participants of Congress had informed him they have been studying about the program through his reporting.

“So you continue to believe him to be a whistleblower?” host Chris Wallace asked. “Because…?”

“He is also doing things overseas that we might in finding not easy, that we’d in finding unhealthy, we’ll in finding those facts out over time,” Amash mentioned. “However so far as Congress is worried, he’s a whistleblower. He instructed us issues we need to understand.”

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