We also don't want any situation where we do it, we have to move, but we do it because

we can't have to scramble around and do the Chinese fire drill.

We don't have a appropriate meal, we spot you that thing. We want to make a count after all the

training that's put into it.

FBI agent, Graydon Ridd, had a secret message for his informant.

An FBI team had been given the green light by the Justice Department to ambush a planned meeting

between a reporter and a source.

And the informant's job was to let the FBI know when and where the meeting would take place.

The reporter whose meeting they planned to ambush was me.

This is intercepted.

I'm James Ryzen, Senior National Security Correspondent for the Intercept.

Back in January 2014, I was an investigative reporter in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, focusing on national security.

The FBI wanted to stop me from obtaining documents revealing the details of massive spying operations by the National Security Agency.

The FBI was convinced that I was in contact with someone they had secretly nicknamed the Second Snowden, who was about to give me an archive of documents.

They went far beyond what former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had leaked about the agency spying operations the year before.

The FBI's plan to grab my source at our scheduled meeting was approved by top officials at the FBI and the Justice Department during the Obama administration.

According to digital recordings, I obtained of several phone conversations between the FBI agent Ridd and his informant.

This is Ridd.

I have been looking into the device issue.

On the one hand, I have support from on-time to do that sort of thing.

There are some price issues.

LV risks of certain things in ways that may not have been real obvious, so I'm not sure how it's going to shake out. Among other things, it makes the chances of the New York having to testify because it's going higher.

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