In May 2016, The Intercept also began publishing NSA documents in bulk, starting with all editions of SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence division, which are available from 2003 to 2012. Initially, documents were only published alongside the articles written by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Gallagher and other reporters. The short-term mission of The Intercept was to "provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures provided to us by our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."įor the long term, The Intercept wants to provide "aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues, from secrecy, criminal and civil justice abuses and civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality and all forms of financial and political corruption."įor its short-term mission, The Intercept had a special team of several researchers to maintain and examine the Snowden files in a secure way. (Greenwald already came up with the idea for a dedicated website in June 2013 in case that The Guardian would not publish his first Snowden story) It was the first digital magazine of First Look Media (FLM), a hybrid for-profit and non-profit media organization set up in October 2013 by eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar. The Intercept is a website that was launched in February 2014 by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.
(screenshot by koenrh - click to enlarge) Opened in a TrueCrypt window on the laptop of Glenn Greenwald. Screenshot from a Brazilian television report, showing some of the Snowden files