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String Puller | 73 ment. In addition, the information was in line with what they had previously investigated or written about. None of these journalists had any reason to doubt at this point that their anonymous source was anything but the sincere whistle-blower he claimed to be. They could not have known from his anonymous e-mails that aside from the whistle-blowing documents he promised them, he was in the process of stealing a large number of other documents that con- cerned the NSA’s sources and methods in foreign countries. These documents, to which Snowden never referred in his correspondence with them, had little if anything at all to do with domestic spying on American citizens. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 73 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019561