The sad reality is the massive trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden was shut down and effectively privatized by Silicon Valley billionaire Pierre Omidyar, who works closely with US regime-change orgs.

The vast majority won't see the light of day https://medium.com/@barrettbrown/why-the-intercept-really-closed-the-snowden-archive-e99f46bbfbbc
The CEO of First Look Media, which runs The Intercept (he was previously CEO of The Guardian), claimed they shut down the Snowden archives because of budget problems.

Co-founder Laura Poitras dissented, pointing out the research department *only made up 1.5% of the total budget*
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