Craig Timberg Barton Gellman (September 3, 2013). "NSA paying out U.S. firms for access to communications networks". Barton Gellman (December 24, 2013). "Edward Snowden, soon after months of NSA revelations, states his mission's attained". Retrieved December 14, 2013. This document, dated eighteen April of this calendar year, obviously reveals that the relation is pretty close in truth, seemingly increasing even nearer.