Greenwald was still reeling from a Times decision a decade earlier to delay publication of a 2004 story detailing how the NSA was wiretapping American phone calls without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying. The Times had held the story for a year after the Bush administration argued that it could jeopardize investigations and tip off suspected terrorists. Like Greenwald, Snowden was also furious with the Times for holding the story. That was the reason, Snowden said, that he had not brought the stolen NSA documents to the Times in the first place. He falsely
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