{"id":20721,"date":"2016-05-18T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2016-05-18T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:52:36","slug":"the-intercept-is-broadening-access-to-the-snowden-archive-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20721","title":{"rendered":"The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

THE INTERCEPT IS BROADENING ACCESS TO THE SNOWDEN ARCHIVE. HERE\u2019S WHY<\/a><\/h3>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

FROM THE TIME\u00a0we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we\u00a0<\/em>sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare\u00a0and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded. As time has gone on,\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0has sought out\u00a0new ways to get documents from\u00a0the archive into the hands of the public, consistent with the public interest as originally conceived.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0The Intercept\u00a0<\/i>is announcing two innovations in how we report on and publish these materials. Both measures are designed to ensure that reporting on the archive continues in as expeditious and informative a manner as possible, in accordance\u00a0with the agreements we entered into with our source about how these materials would be disclosed, a framework\u00a0that he<\/a>,\u00a0and we<\/a>, have publicly described on numerous occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first measure involves the publication of large batches of documents.\u00a0W<\/span>e are, beginning today, publishing in installments the NSA\u2019s\u00a0internal\u00a0SIDtoday<\/em><\/span>\u00a0newsletters, which span more than a decade beginning after 9\/11. We are starting with the oldest\u00a0SIDtoday<\/em>\u00a0articles, from 2003, and working our way through the most recent in our archive, from 2012. Our first release today contains\u00a0166\u00a0documents, all from 2003, and we will periodically release batches until we have made public\u00a0the entire set.\u00a0The documents are available on a\u00a0special section of\u00a0The Intercept<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0SIDtoday<\/em><\/span>\u00a0documents run a wide gamut: from serious, detailed reports on top secret NSA surveillance programs to breezy, trivial meanderings of analysts\u2019<\/span>trips and vacations, with much in between. Many are self-serving and boastful, designed to justify budgets or impress supervisors. Others contain obvious errors or mindless parroting of public source material. <\/span><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE INTERCEPT IS BROADENING ACCESS TO THE SNOWDEN ARCHIVE. HERE\u2019S WHY FROM THE TIME\u00a0we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we\u00a0sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,5437,403,551,577,765,5567],"class_list":["post-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-hong-kong","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20722,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}