Snowden Archive
Whistleblower Edward Snowden provided founders of The Intercept with documents from the National Security Agency and its counterparts around the world. Here are the stories we were able to publish as a result.
Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
How Secret Partners Expand NSA’s Surveillance Dragnet
The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools
British surveillance agency GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA’s vast troves of private communications and sought “unsupervised access” to its data as recently as last year, classified documents provided NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal.
The "Cuban Twitter" Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket
This week, the Associated Press exposed a secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create "a Twitter-like Cuban communications network" run through "secret shell companies" in order to create the false appearance of being a privately owned operation. <!--more-->
Inside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order – and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the NSA for simply doing their jobs.<!--more-->
Compare the NSA's Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents
Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies' Cooperation with NSA
Top political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations' cooperation with the NSA, as well as their own spying activities. Were these top officials truly unaware, or were they pretending to be? <!--more-->
How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. <!--more-->