Saturday, February 14, 2015

Snowden filmmaker says US surveillance 'out of control'

Director Laura Poitras holds the Carl von Ossietzky medal to Edward Snowden during a video conference call after he received the award by The International League for Human Rights in Berlin on December 14,2014 For most Oscar nominees, the weeks before the February 22 ceremony are a whirlpool of stress. When former National Security Agency (NSA) consultant Edward Snowden, who revealed the massive scope of US intelligence surveillance, contacted the filmmaker, she found her life turned into a spy novel. The most risky time was when she went to meet him in Hong Kong, with journalist Glenn Greenwald, the second person contacted by Snowden. "I didn't carry a cell phone for a year after I started reporting because I didn't want it to start broadcasting my location," she told AFP in an interview in Los Angeles.








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