It should not have existed at all. We all understand the pressures facing print journalism and the need to diversify revenue in order to cross-subsidize investigative journalism. But investigative journalism involves being able to develop relationships of trust with your sources." "The Snowden Files", along with the fictionalized "Time of the Octopus" by Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, forms the basis of the Oliver Stone film "Snowden" (2016).