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PRISM was not the whole surveillance system, but it became the name people remembered. This entry explains how the June 2013 disclosures, the leaked slides, the company logos, the public denials, the government’s own responses, and the later Section 702 debate turned PRISM into the defining word of the NSA controversy.
The Snowden archive is not one vault and not one website. It is a distributed public record built from leaked NSA documents, media publications, court filings, official declassifications, and civil-liberties repositories that turned a classified surveillance system into one of the most documented intelligence controversies in modern history.
The secrecy around the NSA did not begin with PRISM, and it did not mean the same thing in every era. This entry follows the long arc from wartime cryptanalytic silence to Cold War institutional secrecy, post-Church legal containment, post-9/11 executive secrecy, and the modern leak era that finally made the surveillance system visible to the public.