Snowden leaked a huge number of classified documents to journalists, and ever since, those journalists have been sorting through the material and publishing sto

Snowden leaked a huge number of classified documents to journalists, and ever since, those journalists have been sorting through the material and publishing stories based on what they find. In this case, the leak came by way of The Intercept, which employs Glenn Greenwald as an editor, who got the documents from Snowden in person in Hong Kong before Snowden went into hiding. So I don't see any reason to assume they're lying about where the material is coming from.