In a brief statement issued on Wednesday, lawyers for Mr. Martin said: “We have not seen any evidence. martyr,” but because it was a continuing law enforcement case and the hope was that Mr. Martin would cooperate. The official said investigators suspected that Mr. Martin might have taken the material before Mr. Snowden’s actions became public. Along with Mr. Snowden’s revelations, the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks in 2010 disclosed hundreds of thousands of State and Defense Department documents. memo calling for a “surge” of intercepts at the United Nations — it had not experienced a mass leak until Mr. Snowden’s disclosures.

Source: New York Times October 05, 2016 16:07 UTC