&gt;I can&#x27;t imagine how something like this, or Snowden&#x27;s docs, could have leaked in the pre-internet days.<p>No imagination needed.<p>The Pentagon Papers, Deepthroat, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Hutchinson Letters, Mordechai Vanunu, and The Iran–Contra affair all predated the internet. Thats just off the top of my head.