I samarbeid med Svenska Dagbladet har Aftenposten så langt hatt tilgang til om lag 2000 dokumenter, som til nå har vært bakgrunn for de sakene Aftenposten har publisert. Ole Erik Almlid, nyhetsredaktør i Aftenposten, sier det har vært jobbet lenge for å f
fd kammaråklagare Rolf Hillegren i SvD 12.1.14 "...riksåklagaren bör på eget initiativ (ex officio) upphäva beslutet om återupptagande av förundersökningen, häva häktningsbeslutet och återkalla arresteringsordern." "Det svenska rättsväsendet kommer visserligen åter att kritiseras skarpt. Men sedan kritiken lagt sig är det troligt att röster kommer att höras som framhåller att Sverige till slut fattat ett klokt beslut – inte minst när man beaktar hur alternativet kunde ha sett ut. Dessutom skulle Sverige genom ett sådant agerande rädda ansiktet på Storbritannien som i viss mån bidragit till den bisarra situationen genom att göra det möjligt för Assange att fly till Ecuadors ambassad. Och Assange skulle kunna lämna ambassaden som en fri man och slippa att tillbringa de närmaste 27 åren där."
Sweden will soon hold the Stockholm Internet Forum to discuss global development and global surveillance. The forum will open on 26 May and will be held in the famed Stadshuset, site of the annual Nobel banquet. The motto of the conference will be 'Internet Freedom for Global Development'.
Petra Sorge, Cicero Weltbühne 15 Maj 2014: "Indeed, Edward Snowden would not have been able to escape his Russian asylum in order to go to Stockholm. However, his invitation would have been a symbol. With a little imagination the hosts could have included him anyway. The German NSA parliamentary committee is currently discussing a video interrogation. Snowden has already answered questions posed by the European Council via a live broadcast; that was also the way he chose to spoke to participants of a tech festival in Texas. Sweden could also have allowed Snowden’s confidantes to speak for him. That’s what other hosts of large computer and internet conferences have recently done. The Net Mundial in São Paulo, Brazil, chose a live broadcast with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, hacker Jacop Appelbaum was there personally. The Chaos Communication Congress had Glenn Greenwald speaking via video. Appelbaum and Harrison spoke there too, as well as at Berlin’s re:publica."