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Originally Posted by homoe

Citizenfour (2014)Director: Laura Poitras

Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

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Really incredible to know the depth and reach of the NSA's reach into our computers, Internet, telephone calls, credit cards, etc., etc.

Whether there is zero reason for them to collect data on you or not: they are doing it!

Citizenfour just won this the Academy Award for best documentary film and we saw it on HBO last night.


"In January 2013, Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Poitras had already been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the US, the result of the September 11 attacks. In June 2013, accompanied by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill, she went to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself as Edward Snowden. Several other meetings followed. The recordings gained from the meetings form the basis of the film".

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