An Insiders' NSA: Latest Documents Aim to 'Broaden Access' to Snowden Archive

Deeming their release “in the public interest,” The Intercept on Monday published a large, download-ready batch of NSA internal document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Though the release comes with a promise that even more files from the Snowden archive will be released in this manner over time, the journalists said today’s document release—re-formatted pdf versions of the NSA’s SIDToday, the agency’s internal newsletter for its clandestine Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID)— is designed to give other journalists and the general public better access to the source material first entrusted to them by Snowden in 2013.

“We at The Intercept have constantly sought out new ways to get as much of the archive provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden into the hands of the public as is consistent with the public interest,” the outlet said in a press statement. “Beginning today, we are publishing batches of documents provided by Snowden, beginning with the NSA’s internal SIDtoday newsletters. We are starting with the oldest SIDtoday articles, including 166 documents from 2003, and working our way through the most recent in our archive, from 2012.”