What happened to the Snowden archive
The gist
The Intercept released the final Snowden archive documents on May 29, 2019.
No outlet has published from the archive since, leaving its fate unclear.
How it unfolded
- Dec 2012Snowden contacted Glenn Greenwald to set up a secure channel, but Greenwald didn't know how.
- Jan 2013A second attempt to reach Greenwald failed; Snowden shifted focus to Laura Poitras, who teamed up with Barton Gellman.
- Mar 31, 2013Snowden sent Poitras an encrypted file called astro_noise, which she downloaded but couldn't open.