Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden defended former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), President Trump’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, following a fiery confirmation hearing in the Senate on Thursday.

Alina Habba, counselor to President Trump, said she expected Gabbard and other picks to be confirmed. The nominees “are the people he selected for a reason,” she said on Fox N

Any one of those resume bullet points might be enough to sink her precariously perched nomination, but in her confirmation hearing today it was Edward Snowden that dominated the discussion. Judging from the line of questioning from senators in both parties,