Snowdon reveals the newsletter "SIDtoday" full of national confidentiality information circulating only inside the NSA so that anyone can download and view it, the overview looks something like this

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"SIDtodayIsUS National Security Agency(NSA)This is a top secret information report for "Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID)", which is the most important department. That "SIDtoday" has been leaked by Mr. Edward Snowden and the Internet media "The Intercept" is released.

Snowden Archive - The SidToday Files
https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/


The Intercept released 166 articles on the Internet from the leaked SIDtoday at the beginning. This is SIDtoday which was released as an institutional report from March 31, 2003 to the end of December of the same year in the period, and includes all the minutes released during the same period. The main topic of SIDtoday concerns "interrogation" which the NSA was supposed to play in the war against Iraq and the fight against terrorists. Other articles about various new content such as SID's new leader, popular usage of the Internet, mobile computing device, etc. were posted.

The Intercept says about SID, "SID is probably the most important department of the NSA, and it is the department that conducts spy activity against the institution / terrorist targeted by NSA."

SIDtoday which is the institutional report of SID has been released for 166 articles at the time of article creation, and it can be downloaded from the following.

GitHub - firstlookmedia / sidtoday: Snowden Archive: The SIDtoday Files


When you download the data, 166 SIDtoday PDF files are saved in the folder.


It actually looks like this. The part that seemed to lead to identifying who exchanged was blacked out.


The published 166 articles are carefully examined by editors, evaluations by the editors, legal review, reporting, editing, digitization processing by The Intercept. Initially, the original SIDtoday is said to be a website by NSA. However, unlike ordinary Internet-accessible websites, it seems to be a website that can be accessed only from the spy agency network inside NSA. In other words, the article of SIDtoday leaked by Mr. Snowden said that the HTML of the web page was provided as it was, and it was necessary to process it to make it easy to read.

What kind of hardship experiences the The Intercept experienced in publishing 166 articles of SIDtoday is summarized below.

How We Prepared the NSA's Sensitive Internal Reports for Release
Hhttps://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/how-we-prepared-the-nsas-sensitive-internal-reports-for-release/