Wait, should I believe that the NSA doesn't know what documents were taken? Because I hold the belief that they do know, down to the PowerPoint slide, what resides in Snowden's Cache. I believe that the NSA is either incapable of telling the truth, or believes that lying about what they know is an advantage somehow.
Is there some way to decide this quandry logically?
Because I hold the belief that they do know, down to the PowerPoint slide, what resides in Snowden's Cache.
Why? When it happened, they almost certainly didn't. By now they may have restored all their backups to that point of time, and recreated their network to see exactly what he could have possibly taken, but beyond that it seems likely they don't know..
I'd imagine they are slowly working out what documents he has. Everytime a new one appears they go "oh, shit" and look at what other docs were nearby.
They have probably checked multiple times a few critical documents to see if he had access to them.
Saying this while discussing material leaked from the NSA is beyond ironic