The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to the president opposing a pardon — with every Democratic member signing. The committee, which compiled a classified report on the effect of Snowden's leaks, unanimously concluded that most of the documents he took "have nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests — they instead pertain to military, defense and intelligence programs of great interest to America's adversaries." The United States, it said, will have to "spend billions to attempt to mitigate the damage."