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What Happened to the Snowden Archive

Sep 20, 2026 · 10:35 PM UTC ·55 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 6 views

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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.

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▪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.

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What happened to the Snowden archive Published on 20 Sept 2026 .notes { color: #B0B0B0; } .notes pre { overflow: hidden; text-wrap: auto; padding: 30px; text-indent: initial; } .notes blockquote { text-indent: initial; margin-left: 3.5em; } .notes .citation { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; gap: 5px; padding: 7px 0px; } .notes .citation .marker { flex-shrink: 0; margin-right: 0.3em; } .notes .citation .text { flex: 1; } .notes .in { margin-left: 20px; } .fin { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; color: #d7d7d7; margin: 60px 0px; } .fin::before, .fin::after { content: ""; flex: 1; height: 1px; background: #474747; } The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019.

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