Foreign Relations Committee

As a Republican active on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio also called for a similar policy.

"Technically, Dr Machar is under house arrest, but the security officials initially tried to take him away," said Reath Muoch Tang, chairman of the party's foreign relations committee.

Republican Jim Risch of Idaho, who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said that he expects the matter to be investigated.

Against arguments by Senate Foreign Relations Committee members that Snowden had endangered U.S. personnel and interests, Gabbard insisted that the programs that Snowden exposed were “egregious, illegal and unconstitutional.”

"I'm supportive of the Trump administration's efforts to reform and restructure the agency in a way that better serves US national security interests," said Senator James Risch, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.