Hillary Clinton: Can ‘never condone’ what Edward Snowden did

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at an event in Silicon Valley Tuesday that she could “never condone” the actions of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked details of some of the agency’s surveillance techniques in 2013.

“He stole millions of documents, and the great irony is that the vast majority of those documents had nothing to do with American civil liberties or privacies,” she said, The Associated Press reported.

One snooping program that was revealed provides for the bulk collection and storage of information on phone calls made in the United States.

She said the National Security Agency needs to be “more transparent” about its activities and that the U.S. needs to determine “what the rules are and then we have to make it absolutely clear that we are going to hold them accountable,” the AP reported.

Mrs. Clinton was speaking in Santa Clara at the Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women.

The frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 also spoke of a comfortable “purple space” where she’d like to see people gravitate.

“I’d like to bring people from right and left, red, blue, get them into a nice, warm, purple space where everybody is talking and where we’re actually trying to solve problems,” she said. “That would be my objective.”