| ® | The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing | 183 Moscow that were more embarrassing to America. In June 2015, the WikiLeaks website released another putative Snowden document, two years after he had supposedly wiped his computer clean in Hong Kong. It revealed that the NSA had targeted the telephones of three consecutive presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Francois Hollande. According to a former NSA official, this document, like the 2013 Merkel material, was not among the data on the thumb drive given to journalists in Hong Kong, which Greenwald confirmed. Green- wald suggested to The New York Times that it might have been sto- len by another penetration in the NSA, presumably one who had access to the same secret compartments as Snowden in 2013. Since Greenwald and Poitras had no way of knowing about the documents that Snowden did not give them, it is equally possible that the Rus- sian intelligence services obtained this document from Snowden and later gave it to WikiLeaks. The release on Assange’s WikiLeaks site came in the midst of NATO war games held near the Russian border, which Putin had vehemently denounced. The accompanying article © was co-authored by Assange, who now claimed to have access to ® Snowden’s NSA material. Because Assange had been in telephonic contact with Snowden in Hong Kong, and his deputy, Sarah Har- rison, had spent five months in Moscow with Snowden in 2013, it is certainly possible Snowden was his source. But it seems difficult to believe that Assange waited two years before publishing because he has made it part of his modus operandi to publish documents immediately. Because WikiLeaks receives documents anonymously via its Tor software, any party with access to the Snowden files could have sent it. Subsequently, in July 2016, Assange released via WikiLeaks a cache of politically disruptive documents from the files of the Democratic National Committee. U.S. intelligence strongly suspected they been stol