A new, never-before-seen document from the Snowden archives was just published

Sure, there’s a danger in looking at this and becoming guilty of the same sort of misparsing that happened with Climategate when all the denialists would read the word “trick” and interpret it as evidence that the IPCC was lying. This document probably isn’t either official policy but it does reflect the attitude that at least a few members of the intelligence community have towards extra-judicial/illegal activities are their part.