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0px;">Seemingly not kidding, the spokesman went on to discuss another charge against Mr. Snowden—the theft of government documents: “The American people have the right to assume that their private documents will remain private and won’t be collected by someone in the government for his own purposes.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;">“Only by bringing Mr. Snowden to justice can we safeguard the most precious of American rights: privacy,” added the spokesman, apparently serious.</div></div></article></div></div></body></html>