Will Congress agree to a Skype testimony from Edward Snowden?

The title is misleading. The use of Skype specifically is only in the last sentence of the article, No problem, say his allies - if Rogers is ready to move beyond name-calling. Skype is only a computer click away. This is not in quotes, and is sourced blindly to "his allies."

There's a period, not a semicolon, between the "No problem" clause and the "Skype" clause, weakening the attribution. Because of that, I think the article author may have made that leap. In my opinion, "Skype" is used by sources as simply common parlance for "some kind of secure video conferencing", and the author perhaps unintentionally, and unfortunately provocatively, overemphasized Skype as the literal option to be used. For security, Skype is a touch radioactive, and Microsoft knows it. That's one of their published reasons for centralizing its server architecture. I would expect Congress, and Snowden, to prefer to use something better, and more securely routable.

Skype, backdoored by M$ & the NSA? At least they'll know exactly where he is if they need to send a drone strike.