Initial release of SIDtoday articles from second quarter of 2003

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+# SIDtoday Files
+
+*SIDtoday* is the internal newsletter for the NSA's most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, *The Intercept* is releasing nine year's worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003.
+
+You can read our *SIDtoday* reporting and browse the documents online [here](https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday).
+
+This repository contains *SIDtoday* articles released by *The Intercept*, in PDF format and organized by year. We will continue to update it with new documents.
+
+## Downloading and verifying
+
+You can download all of the documents release so far as a zip file [here](https://github.com/firstlookmedia/sidtoday/archive/master.zip).
+
+Every commit in this repository is cryptographically signed using PGP. If you'd like to verify the integrity of the documents, you can either use [GitHub's interface](https://github.com/blog/2144-gpg-signature-verification), or you can manually verify the signatures like this:
+
+```sh
+# Download the signing key
+gpg --recv-keys "927F 419D 7EC8 2C2F 149C  1BD1 403C 2657 CD99 4F73"
+
+# Clone the git repository
+git clone https://github.com/firstlookmedia/sidtoday.git
+cd sidtoday
+
+# Verify the signatures on each commit
+git log --show-signature
+```