Marc Andreessen, the famously outspoken Facebook board member and founder of Netscape, called Edward Snowden a "textbook traitor" in a CNBC interview that was posted on Thursday.

“Obviously he’s a traitor," Andreessen said. "If you look up in the encyclopedia, traitor, there’s a picture of Edward Snowden."

The entrepreneur conceded that his opinion of the NSA leaker was in the "distinct minority" in Silicon Valley. He defended his position by implying that it was a traitorous act to provide national security secrets to the world and saying that American tech companies may lose overseas business simply because they're from the same nation as an agency that spies on everyone else — from its own citizens to the leaders of allied governments.

You can watch the full interview, below.

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Andreessen's comments fall on the one-year anniversary of the first NSA leaks. Those leaks, provided by former NSA contractor Snowden, have revealed that the United States surveillance agency stores the phone conversations of American citizens, monitors web cam activity, collects text messages and so much more.

His comments also clash with an open letter written by tech company executives from Apple, Google and others — including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — that was directed at members of the Senate and published in the New York Times and the Washington Post on Thursday.

In the letter, tech giants call for the Senate to push for greater restrictions on the NSA's capability. The Senate intelligence committee will meet on Thursday to discuss legislation passed by the House of Representatives that would stop some NSA practices but would not curtail the agency's bulk data collection.

Part of the reason Andreessen isn't upset by the Snowden leaks, he says, is because he thought most people knew what the NSA was up to.

"I think if you actually followed the NSA, if you read the books and the articles and understood the history, I think you generally assumed they were doing pretty much everything that’s come out," he said. "The biggest surprise for me was that people were so shocked."

But just because he doesn't see eye-to-eye with others in Silicon Valley doesn't mean he's a big fan of President Obama's administration. He seemed shocked by the White House's response to the leaks, mostly because he feels officials have no idea of how to handle the situation.

“They’re letting the NSA, I think, hang out to dry," Andreessen said. "I think they’re letting the American tech industry hang out to dry. I have not met anybody in the American technology industry who feels like the White House has a plan."