If
you haven’t had a chance to see this MUST-SEE movie, then here it
is, available online
Citizenfour
A
film by Laura Poitras
In
January 2013, film-maker 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 mass surveillance programs in the
United States, and so in June 2013, she went to Hong Kong with her
camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified
himself as Edward Snowden. She was met there by investigative
journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter
Ewen MacAskill. Several other meetings followed. Citizenfour is based
on the recordings from these meetings. What follows is the largest
confirmations of mass surveillance using official documents
themselves, the world has never seen…
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