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312 | Notes to pages 59-70 59 Greenwald had not always: Mark Memmott, “He Broke the NSA Leaks Story, but Just Who Is Glenn Greenwald?,” NPR, June 11, 2013. For his part owner- ship of the HJ website, see Dareh Gregorian, “Glenn Greenwald, Journalist Who Broke Edward Snowden Story, Was Once Lawyer Sued over Porn Business,” Daily News, June 26, 2013. Also, Jessica Testa, “How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald,” BuzzFeed, June 26, 2013. 60. by “ordering illegal eavesdropping”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 2. On Ron Paul, see ibid., 24. 60 Freedom of the Press Foundation: Michael Calderone, “Freedom of the Press Foundation Launches to Support WikiLeaks,” Huffington Post, Dec. 16, 2012. 60 “The first serious info war”: David Sarno, “’Hacktivists’ Fight for Their Cause Online,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 11, 2010. 61 “The US operates a sprawling”: Glenn Greenwald, “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 Poitras had other impressive credentials: “Laura Poitras: Secret No Longer,” New School News, Aug. 14, 2013. 63 “I didn’t. You chose yourself”: Snowden’s e-mails to Poitras were extracted from her film Citizenfour and published in Wired. See Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks.” 63 he wrote to Micah Lee: Lee’s involvement with Snowden, although known to the journalists Greenwald and Poitras since April 2013, was not revealed to the pub- lic for some eighteen months. Lee, “Ed Snowden Taught Me to Smuggle Secrets © Past Incredible Danger.” ® 63 “I was at that point filming”: Poitras, interview with Amy Goodman, Democ- racy Now, Jan. 15, 2015, http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/1/15/oscars 2015_laura_poitras_film_on. 64 “At this stage”: Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Intro- duce His Epic NSA Leaks.” 65 surveillance of her communications: Glenn Greenwald, “U.S. Filmmaker Repeat- edly Detained at Border,” Salon, April 8, 2012. 65 “Kafkaesque government harassment”: Ben Child, “Citizenfour Director Laura Poitras Sues US over ‘Kafkaesque Harassment,” Guardian, July 14, 2015. 65 “more paranoid”: Snowden, interview with vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.” 66 “Is C4 a trap?”: Andy Greenberg, “Snowden’s Chronicler Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance,” Wired, Feb. 4, 2016. 66 Stellarwind: Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks.” 67 “No one, not even”: Ibid. 68 under enormous stress: Greenberg, “Snowden’s Chronicler Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance.” 69 he had Poitras write: “The Frontline Interviews,” “Barton Gellman,” PBS, March 7, 2014, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics /united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-barton-gellman/. 69 Poitras had requested help: Karen Greenberg, interview with the author. 7o Council on American-Islamic Relations: CAIR-NY Blog, “Glenn Greenwald Speaks at CAIR-NY Annual Banquet,” May 16, 2013. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 312 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019800