What Happened to the Snowden Archive?
canopic jug writes:
Libroot what happened to the Snowden archive? The site tracks down the organization last known to have copies of the Snowden archive and asks about the current state of the documents. The preliminary answer is not good.
The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. After that, only The Intercept was still publishing documents, with only a few exceptions, until it closed its archive in March 2019. Eleven weeks later, on 29 May 2019, it released what would become the final batch of documents from the archive. Since then, no news outlet, journalist, or institution anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive.
[...] Between August and September 2026 we tried contacting over twenty people and organisations. First Look Institute, including questions for Michael Bloom, and The Intercept. Betsy Reed, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald. The Guardian's press office and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner. Alan Rusbridger, Ewen MacAskill, Janine Gibson, Julian Borger, Gill Phillips and Zoe Norden. ProPublica's press office. Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, Micah Lee, Erinn Clark, Lynn Dombek, and others.
Two replied. Gill Phillips, the Guardian's lawyer throughout the Snowden period, wrote to say she had retired and could not assist. The Guardian's press office said it had nothing new to share and did not routinely comment on editorial decision making.
Nobody answered a single question of substance.
If you know something about any of this, we'd like to hear from you.
A long time has passed since 2013.
Previously:
(2026) Privacy Is Not a Price You Pay for Growth
(2025) 10 Years on After 'Data and Goliath' Warned of Data Collection
(2023) Snowden Ten Years Later - Schneier on Security
(2022) Last of the Monkees Wants their FBI Records Turned Over
(2020) Snowden Criticises Amazon for Hiring Former NSA Boss
(2020) NSA Spying Exposed by Snowden Was Illegal and Not Very Useful, Court Says
(2019) (Updated) Edward Snowden: "I'm Not Asking for a Pass. What I'm Asking for is a Fair Trial"
... and more.
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