Greenwald, a Brazil-based blogger for the Guardian. Both journalists were longtime critics of NSA surveillance with whom Mr. Snowden (under the alias Citizen Four) had been in contact for four months. To provide them with scoops discrediting NSA operations, Mr. Snowden culled several thousand documents out of

ously sent Gellman the PRISM scoop, which the Post published on June 6. He also sent Greenwald and Poitras documents while he was still the anonymous Citizen Four. Neither Gellman nor Greenwald had suggested the need for a face-to-face meeting with Snowden. Even after he had revealed his true identity to Poitra