<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 1.33em; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; ">U.S. SEEMINGLY UNAWARE OF IRONY IN ACCUSING SNOWDEN OF SPYING</h1><p><img alt="borowitz-snoowden-580.jpg" width="580" height="387" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="e3c7807c-e17c-444b-acf2-f6935267eca1" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7E380FC8-84D9-45C4-83B9-ABA93012E85A@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>WASHINGTON</b>—The United States government charged former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden with spying on Friday, apparently unaware that in doing so it had created a situation dripping with irony. </p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">At a press conference to discuss the accusations, an N.S.A. spokesman surprised observers by announcing the spying charges against Mr. Snowden with a totally straight face.</p><div style="font-size: 16px; "><p>“These charges send a clear message,” the spokesman said. “In the United States, you can’t spy on people.”</p><p>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.”</p><p>“Only by bringing Mr. Snowden to justice can we safeguard the most precious of American rights: privacy,” added the spokesman, apparently serious.</p><p><br></p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></div></body></html>