Lawmaker: 'Traitor' Snowden deserves death penalty

Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan, said Thursday morning that he's hopeful that Edward Snowden can return to the U.S. and get the death penalty for revealing secrets about the U.S. domestic surveillance program.

Pompeo said on C-SPAN that "the traitor Edward Snowden," a former National Security Agency contractor, put people's lives at risk by divulging secrets about U.S. intelligence gathering.

"He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence," he said.

"Having put friends of mine, friends of yours who serve in the military today an enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers," Pompeo added.