en later said. “It wasn’t until December 2013 that I gave my first interview to Barton Gellman.” (Snowden did not count ® his Internet exchange with Risen in October as an “interview”.) ® In late December 2013, Snowden met with Barton Gellman. It was his first face-to-face meeting with a journalist sin

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