The Intercept is announcing two innovations in how it reports on and publishes 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 with the agreements The Intercept entered into with its source about how these materials would be disclosed, a framework that he (the source), and we (The Intercept), have publicly described on numerous occasions.
A statement on the The Intercept website reads: “The first measure involves the publication of large batches of documents. We are, beginning today, publishing in installments the NSA’s internal SIDtoday newsletters, which span more than a decade beginning after 9/11. We are starting with the oldest SIDtoday articles, from 2003, and working our way through the most recent in our archive, from 2012. Our first release today contains 166 documents, all from 2003, and we will periodically release batches until we have made public the entire set.”
The documents are available on a special section of The Intercept.