The same day our story was published, the New York Times reporter Charlie Savage ?" who had previously spent weeks documenting that this claim about Snowden never had any journalistic basis to begin with ?" confirmed the authenticity of the new documents. As Savage wrote: "The documents show [Snowden] stayed in both the Icon and then, starting on May 21st, the Mira, under his own name, using his own credit cards. So there is no mystery gap, and the credit card records obviously were readily available to American investigators all along."