The new head of the National Security Agency has distanced himself from previous government suggestions that whistleblower Edward Snowden is a foreign spy. Officials including former NSA Director Keith Alexander have contended that Snowden may have worked with Russian or other foreign intelligence agencies. But at a public forum with Bloomberg News, new NSA chief Michael Rogers shot down that theory.

Reporter: “Do you really believe he — he fundamentally believes in what he did, or do you think he could have been working for someone else as a double agent?”

NSA Director Michael Rogers: “Could he have? Possibly. Do I believe that that’s the case? Probably not.”