Introducing the ACLU's NSA Documents Database

National Security Agency documents disclosure Edward Snowden 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, we are launching the NSA Documents Database.

This tool will be an up-to-date, complete collection of previously secret NSA documents made public since last June. The database is designed to be easily searchable -- by title, category, or content -- so that the public, researchers, and journalists can readily home in on the information they are looking for.