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…us whistle-blower. The Snowden interview in the video subsequently was expanded by the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras into the two-hour movie CitizenFour, which won the 2015 academy-award for the best documentary. Poitras said in accepting her Oscar in the Academy Awar...

…nvention of hacktivists in Berlin that month. Snowden also closely followed her rise in this world. By simply googling Poitras’s name in January 2013, he would have learned about her connections with Greenwald, Appelbaum, Binney, Assange, and other leading figures in the anti-su...

…wald, “FBI’s Abuse of the Surveil- lance State Is the Real Scandal Needing Investigation,” Guardian, Nov. 13, 2012. 62 Poitras had been diligently filming: Adan Salazar, “Mini Documentary Reveals Full Extent of ‘Stellarwind’ Domestic Spy Program,” Infowars, Aug. 28, 2012. 62 Po...

…st 28, 2012 http://www.infowars.com/mini- documentary-reveals-full-extent-of-stellar-wind-domestic-spy- program/ 11. “Poitras had other impressive credential...” New School blog, “Laura Poitras: Secret No Longer,” New School News, August 14, 2013 http://blogs.newschool.edu/news...

…ment documents published by the Guardian and Washington Post, but he incriminated himself further on camera by allowing Poitras to film him actually disclosing NSA’s secret operations to Greenwald. By disclosing classified data to Greenwald, an unauthorized person, he intentional...

…line publication dedicated to investigative journalism, which was backed by the Internet billion- aire Pierre Omidyar. Poitras remained in Hong Kong, where she moved, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which, like the...

…nity,” he explained in an interview with Forbes in 2014. Prior to the Snowden leak, he had frequently been consulted by Poitras on government surveillance issues (and appeared in Poitras’s 2010 documentary, The Oath). He had also been engaged in a lawsuit aimed at exposing the NS...

…d Greenwald to drop everything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. He had, it will be recalled, already sent Poitras an enciphered file, and told her she would get the key once she and Greenwald followed his instructions. Presumably, he wanted Greenwald’s story and the...

… same pressure to publish would also apply to the journalists Snowden had dealt with in Hong Kong. If Snowden had given Poitras, Greenwald, Lam, or MacAskill the Merkel document, or even told them about it in their interviews with him in Hong Kong, The Guardian would have certain...

…idante, is aware of my intentions, and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions,” he said. Poitras must have found it flattering that a total stranger was willing to disclose to her in emails what he would not tell even his “most trusted confidante” a...

…ies on that subject for the newspaper. He was also highly-regarded by the editors there. He was therefore interested in Poitras’ offer (although he would consult a friend at the Justice Department about the legality of publishing NSA documents. Snowden now had laid the groundwor...

…isclosures. “The material provided and the investigative effort required will be too much for any one person,” he wrote Poitras. He next directed her to contact Greenwald. “I recommend that at the very minimum you involve Greenwald. I believe you know him.” (Snowden apparently di...

…d the former NSA employee Thomas Drake, could attract interest by U.S. or foreign intelligence services. Snowden asked Poitras to take out a new enciphering key to use exclusively for her liaison with him. It provided them both with an extra layer of protection from any surveill...

… identified himself to them in an e-mail as a senior mem- ber of the intelligence community. Snowden led Greenwald and Poitras to the nearby elevator, and they went through various corridors of the hotel to his room on the tenth floor. It was mainly occupied by a king-sized bed,...

…aware that he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was acquainted. He instructed Poitras to mask their e-mail communications in cyber- space “so we don’t have a clue or record of your true name in your file communication chain.” Such precaut...