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If they didn't know they wouldn't destroy Guardians' hard disks but would take them with them to check out the data.

I thought the Guardian destroyed their own hard drives, to prevent them from being taken?

That's not what the Guardian says happened. "But once it was obvious that they would be going to law I preferred to destroy our copy rather than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-fil... Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245419