ACLU publishes Snowdens leaked documents

Do you want to peruse the leaked documents that Edward Snowden released? If so, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a searchable online database.

Emily Weinrebe of the ACLU's National Security project wrote on Thursday: "These documents stand as primary source evidence of our government's interpretation of its authority to engage in sweeping surveillance activities at home and abroad, and how it carries out that surveillance."

"The ACLU hopes to facilitate this debate by making these documents more easily accessible and understandable. Toward that end, today we are launching the NSA Documents Database."

The database is searchable by document title, category, or full-text content. There's also a filtering function. Weinrebe went on to say: "you can have the database return all documents that both pertain to 'Section 215' and 'Internal NSA/DOJ Legal Analysis'."

"The fact is," Weinrebe wrote, "that most of the documents contained in this database should have never been secret in the first place."

Happy reading.