Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has launched a new attack on whistleblower Edward Snowden. Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clapper called on Snowden to return all stolen documents to the National Security Agency after causing what he called major harm to U.S. security. Clapper also suggested that the journalists who have published Snowden’s leaks are his “accomplices.”

James Clapper: “Snowden claims that he’s won and that his mission is accomplished. If that is so, I call on him and his accomplices to facilitate the return of the remaining stolen documents that have not yet been exposed to prevent even more damage to U.S. security. But what I do want to speak to, as the nation’s senior intelligence officer, is the profound damage that his disclosures have caused and continue to cause. As a consequence, the nation is less safe and its people less secure. What Snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way, way beyond his professed concerns with so-called domestic surveillance programs.”

Snowden has repeatedly maintained he’s no longer in possession of any of the documents he took from the NSA, having passed them on to journalists to report at their discretion. Clapper was appearing before the same panel he was caught lying to last year about the deliberate collection of Americans’ personal information.