Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets

Filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras, who first made contact with Snowden and captured his journey in the Oscar-worthy documentary Citizenfour, opens up about Obama and the NSA.

Poitras is perhaps the person most responsible for bringing Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks to the front pages of newspapers, and the story of her first meeting with the whistleblower reads like a le Carré novel. Snowden contacted Poitras in mid-January 2013 after failing to connect with Greenwald due to his lack of encryption. By that point, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker had been working on a documentary on whistleblowers, shooting interviews with former NSA worker William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.

Following five months of encrypted communication, Snowden agreed to meet Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong in May at the chic Mira Hotel. They were told to search the lobby for a man fiddling with a Rubik’s cube, at which point the NSA contractor guided them up to his hotel room, where they (joined later by The Guardian correspondent Ewen MacAskill) planned how to bring Snowden’s leaked NSA documents to the eyes and ears of the public.

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