The news website Intercept announced that it is beginning to publish large parts of the Snowden dossier and, at the same time, opening it to foreign media for investigation!
The website The Intercept, co-founded by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who was one of the first to interview Snowden in 2013, said it would "invite journalists, including from foreign media outlets, to collaborate with it to investigate the entirety of Snowden's files."
At the same time, it said that it is gradually beginning to publish the entire archive, starting with documents from 2003. The magazine notes that from the beginning, each publication was preceded by research and evaluation to put each document into context before being presented – several of the documents, like some of those being published now, were simply internal reports that were intended either indirectly to justify the work of the individual executive or to "impress" superiors at the NSA, while there is no shortage of inaccuracies.
NSA and American espionage
The decision could lead to new revelations after those made in 2013 by Edward Snowden, a whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) consultant, who left the US with many files revealing the scope of surveillance carried out by the NSA and other American spy agencies.
"Since we began our coverage of these archives, one of the elements of our approach has been to work in partnership with other media outlets, American or foreign, and not try to keep all this material to ourselves," Greenwald explained.
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Agreement with journalists
The Intercept website recalled that it has already shared Snowden's files "with more than 20 media outlets" in the past. However, as Glenn Greenwald clarified, journalists who will study the files will be asked to adhere to certain rules, based on an agreement previously made with Snowden.
"There are still many documents that are of genuine interest and can and should be disclosed to the public," but "there are also documents in the archives that should not, in our view, be published because they would put innocent people at great risk," he added.
The online magazine has already begun offering access to these archives to various media outlets, including the French newspaper Le Monde.
The NSA's role in Guantanamo
The same website published dozens of internal NSA briefing letters yesterday, including one that sheds light on the NSA's role in interrogating prisoners at the controversial prison at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The NSA had sent a liaison to this prison, who was tasked with "communicating daily with (…) the interrogators in order to evaluate and utilize the information they collected from the prisoners.".
The NSA did not respond to Agence France-Presse's calls for comment on the information.
Edward Snowden, who is accused of espionage by the US government, is alive after the revelations he made in Moscow.
