(Updated: May 30, 2019)
Last month, The Intercept shut down access to the Snowden documents both for internal together with external research. But where are these files inwards the outset place, together with what should move their hereafter destination? During a podcast interview finally Monday, Snowden himself also commented on this issue.
Screenshot from a Brazilian television receiver report, showing to a greater extent than or less of the Snowden files
opened inwards a TrueCrypt window on the laptop of Glenn Greenwald.
(screenshot past times koenrh - click to enlarge)
The Intercept
The Intercept is a website that was launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of six articles inwards Dec 2016, mainly virtually GCHQ spying operations against launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of Israel together with inwards Africa. It seems at that topographic point have got been no similar collaborations with other unusual journalists.
The decision
With its outset mission evidently accomplished, The Intercept volition at nowadays motion forwards with its long-term mission: "For v years, the companionship expended substantional resources to exceed away on to written report on the Snowden archive, but The Intercept has at nowadays decided to focus on other priorities" - according to First Look Media CEO Michael Bloom.
How this determination was made tin lavatory move learnt from a reconstruction made past times Barrett Brown, which includes a timeline written past times Laura Poitras:
On Tuesday March 12, on a telephone phone telephone with Glenn [Greenwald] and the CFO, I am told that Glenn together with Betsy [Reed, editor-in-chief of The Intercept] had decided to unopen downward the archive because it was no longer of value to The Intercept. This is the outset fourth dimension I am heard virtually the decision. On the call, Glenn says nosotros should non make this determination populace because it would expect bad for him together with The Intercept. I objected to the decision. I am confident the determination to unopen the archive was made to pave to fire/eliminate the query team.
The side past times side day, March 13, Poitras sent an email to Michael Bloom maxim she was "sickened" together with inwards a memo she called on the board to review the decision: "This determination together with the agency it was handled would move a disservice to our source, the risks we’ve all taken, together with most importantly, to the populace for whom Edward Snowden blew the whistle."
This email was leaked to the tidings website The Daily Beast, which reported virtually it the same day. This was probable the agency how Edward Snowden heard of it, every bit inwards the Motherboard podcast interview from Apr 22 he said that he learnt virtually The Intercept's determination from the news.
On March 14, Snowden was called past times Laura Poitras: "He had non been informed past times Glenn or Betsy virtually their determination to unopen downward the archive. I apologize to him."
The reason
Given that firing The Intercept's query squad saves alone 1.5% of First Look Media's non-profit budget, to a greater extent than or less people suspected that at that topographic point may move other reasons for shutting downward the Snowden archive. Pierre Omidyar, for example, could have got preferred to hold his practiced relations with the States of America government.
Michael Bloom yet says that the remaining documents aren't interesing plenty anymore, together with points to the fact that other major media outlets "ceased reporting on it years ago. Many decided that the resources required to exceed away on to function on the archive were non justified past times the journalistic value the remaining documents provide, every bit those documents have got aged."
In 2013, The Guardian, The Washington Post together with Der Spiegel each had betwixt 10 together with thirty reports based upon the NSA files, but that number declined to simply a few inwards 2015 together with since 2016 it was basically alone The Intercept that continued with novel reports, but these were mainly background stories without pregnant revelations.
Copies of the Snowden files
The actual number of documents that Snowden took away from the NSA is silent unclear together with disputed. According to the 2016 report from the States of America House Intelligence Committee, he removed to a greater extent than than 1.5 ane M m documents from 2 classified networks: NSANet together with JWICS.
(Strangely enough, the House Intelligence written report says that JWICS stands for "Joint Warfighter Information Computer System" piece the actual lift of the network is Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System)
Glenn Greenwald launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of television report past times Fantastico)
Partial copies of the files
Besides the consummate sets of Snowden files, at that topographic point are several parties that keep, or have got kept partial copies:
- The Guardian (received from Snowden past times Ewan MacAskill)
- ProPublica (received from The Guardian)
- The New York Times (received from The Guardian)
- The Washington Post (received from Snowden past times Barton Gellman)
- Der Spiegel (received from Laura Poitras)*
Being nether threat from the British government, The Guardian rescued their laid of documents past times providing copies to The New York Times together with the investigative journalism platform ProPublica, where they would move meliorate protected nether the First Amendment of the States of America constitution.
The Guardian's ain laid was eventually physically destroyed inwards front end of GCHQ technicians on July 20, 2013:
Video showing the devastation of the laptop containing The Guardian's Snowden files
The High German mag Der Spiegel published a total of 89 documents from their part of the Snowden trove, including ones that were non disclosed every bit purpose of before reporting. H5N1 outset laid of 53 documents was released on June 18, 2014 together with a instant laid of to a greater extent than or less other 36 documents on Jan 17, 2015.
Besides the tidings outlets with their ain partial copies, Greenwald together with The Intercept also launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of Leaked documents that were non attributed to Snowden.
Protection of the files
In guild to protect the Snowden files, alone make novel laptops with no connectedness to the mesh are used to search, form together with read them. It's non clear whether the files themselves are also stored on these laptop computers, or alone on removable storage devices, similar a thumb drive or an SD card.
In a 2013 Brazilian television receiver report, Glenn Greenwald was seen using to a greater extent than or less pollex drives together with a criterion SD carte du jour piece working with the Snowden documents.
In to a greater extent than or less other television receiver written report nosotros could fifty-fifty run across the covert of Greenwald's laptop with several of the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT documents beingness opened inwards a TrueCrypt window. TrueCrypt was a software application used to fully or partially encrypt difficult drives together with removables drives using the AES, Serpent together with Twofish ciphers.
Data on the external difficult drive that Greenwald's partner David Miranda was carrying when he was detained at Heathrow Airport inwards August 2013 was reportedly also encrypted with TrueCrypt.
Glenn Greenwald working with the Snowden files exterior his household inwards Rio de Janeiro
(screenshot from a launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of television report past times Fantastico)
The hereafter of the files
What tin lavatory or should occur with the Snowden files? Wikileaks, Cryptome together with many others demanded that all the documents should move released to the public. But Snowden did non desire an indiscriminate dump similar how Manning's files were eventually published on Wikileaks. Instead, he insisted on responsible disclosures past times independent journalists.
Accordingly, Glenn Greenwald launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of proper context, were sensationalist or fifty-fifty misleading because of launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of misinterpretations. And piece protecting the reputations of individuals, that of the NSA seemed "fair game".
First Look Media's CEO Michael Bloom hoped "that Glenn together with Laura are able to notice a novel partner - such every bit an academic establishment or query facility - that volition exceed away on to written report on together with issue the documents inwards the archive consistent with the populace interest" together with Greenwald tweeted that he was already looking for "the correct partner [...] that has the funds to robustly publish."
But coin seems non the problem: if there's ane house with plenty coin than it's First Look Media, which was funded past times eBay billionaire Omidyar with to a greater extent than or less 87 ane M m States of America Dollar betwixt 2013 together with 2017 (of which Greenwald earned to a greater extent than than 1.6 ane M m USD from 2014 to 2017).
In the Motherboard interview, Snowden said that "what remains inwards the archive is stuff that requires much to a greater extent than substantial effort" which would move meliorate for a book. He said that The Intercept wasn't meant for that together with that it was upwardly to academic institutions, but they didn't dare because they depend on grants from the federal government.
Snowden also argued that handing over the files to a unusual academic institute was also non an selection because therefore the States of America regime would come upwardly up with the accusation of providing classified data to foreigners.
But when it's therefore difficult to notice a well-funded establishment for farther query together with responsible publications together with the terminal selection of deleting all the files comes closer, it's also non unthinkable that someone volition attempt out to "rescue" the archive past times putting everything online. After all, at that topographic point have got been other disclosures that were non inwards accordance with Snowden's intentions.
Links together with sources
- Justice Integrity Project: Snowden archives at non bad take chances — As alarming every bit Assange's arrest
- Barrett Brown: Why The Intercept Really Closed the Snowden Archive
- Tim Shorrock: Why Did Omidyar Shut Down The Intercept’s Snowden Archive? - Part 2 - Part 3
- Bruce Schneier: launched inwards Feb 2014 past times Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras together with Jeremy Scahill. It was the outset digital mag of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit together with non-profit media organization gear upwardly inwards Oct 2013 past times eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar.
(Greenwald already came up with the thought for a dedicated website inwards June 2013 inwards instance that The Guardian would non issue his outset Snowden story)
The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform together with an editorial construction inwards which to aggressively written report on the disclosures provided to us past times our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
For the long term, The Intercept wants to render "aggressive together with independent adversarial journalism across a broad arrive at of issues, from secrecy, criminal together with civil judge abuses together with civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality together with all forms of fiscal together with political corruption."
External research
For its short-term mission, The Intercept had a especial squad of several researchers to maintain together with examine the Snowden files inwards a secure way. Initially, documents were alone published with the articles written past times Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher together with other reporters.
In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents inwards bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. So far, a total of 1861 editions have got been published inwards seven batches. It's non clear whether this serial volition move completed.
Update: On May 29, 2019, The Intercept published an 8th together with final batch consisting of 287 SIDtoday articles from belatedly 2006, bringing the total to 2148 editions of this newsletter.
Also inwards may 2016, it was decided to "invite exterior journalists, including from unusual media outlets, to function with us to explore the total Snowden archive", to laid out with journalists from the French paper Le Monde:
"Le Monde worked directly, during several days, inwards collaboration with The Intercept, on the Edward Snowden archive given to Glenn Greenwald together with Laura Poitras: tens of thousands of documents exfiltrated past times the sometime agent from the NSA servers, together with safely stored past times The Intercept."
As a number of this collaboration, Le Monde published a serial of First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives
- Columbia Journalism Review: The Intercept, a billionaire-funded populace charity, cuts back
- The Daily Beast: The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
- The Intercept: The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here's why
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