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We are not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact that the government has
“said it thrice” does not make an allegation true. See LEWIS
CARROLL, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK 3 (1876) (“I have said
it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”). In fact, we have
no basis for concluding that there are independent sources for
the documents’ thrice-made assertions. To the contrary, as
noted in Part III, many of those assertions are made in identical
language, suggesting that later documents may merely be citing
earlier ones, and hence that all may ultimately derive from a
single source. And as we have also noted, Parhat has made a
credible argument that -- at least for some of the assertions -- the
common source is the Chinese government, which may be less
than objective with respect to the Uighurs.