Omidyar Is Not What He Appears To Be
This isn’t speculation. In 2018, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accused Omidyar of launching The Intercept not to protect press freedom, but to take control of the Snowden leaks and bury damaging revelations. According to Edmonds, the outlet was never intended to serve as a platform for transparency. Rather, it functioned as a honey trap, luring whistleblowers into a false sense of security while ensuring their disclosures were buried, filtered, or weaponized to benefit elite interests.
The pattern is clear. The Guardian initially broke the NSA mass surveillance scandal, but once The Intercept obtained the files, the story stalled. By all appearances, this was no accident; it was deliberate.
Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence against Omidyar is his own record on government surveillance. In 2009 — just a few years before reinventing himself as a press freedom advocate — he publicly defended NSA spying. He even stated that anyone who published “stolen” information should assist in tracking down the leaker.