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” Poitras recalled in an interview with a Vogue

Poitras did not know Snowden’s real name

Poitras had other impressive credentials. Born in

…arvey Oswald, McGraw-Hill Book Company, (New York, 1978) pp.64-104 34. “He gave her his word.” Snowden emails to Laura Poitras, see: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/ 35.”a bodyguard of lies...” — Churchill wrote “In wartime, truth is so precious th...

…g those cited by President Obama’s national security team. It was not found among the files on the thumb drive given to Poitras and Greenwald. Nor were most of the missing Level 3 lists concern- ing NSA activities in Russia and China found on the thumb drive, even though Snowden...

…nough cash to pay his living expenses, according to him, for the next two years. He arranged the encrypted channel with Poitras in February 2013, three months before he would induce her to come to Hong Kong. He made contact with a foreign diplomatic mission at least a month befor...

…eatly respect, came to accept Snowden’s whistle- blowing narrative. This powerful narrative, as lucidly articulated by Poitras, Greenwald and other Snowden supporters, described the NSA activities exposed by Snowden as part of a vast criminal conspiracy involving, among others,...

…ing to every interested intelligence service that a defector from the NSA was in Hong Kong providing secret documents. Poitras released the famous video showing Snowden and secret NSA documents three days later. At this point, Snowden shone brightly as a beacon to NSA secrets to...

… the enemy computers that the NSA hacked into. He also knew he was undertaking s a dangerous enterprise. He would tell Poitras in Hong Kong that the NSA would literally “kill” to protect their secrets. He also said he could be seized in a rendition operation by the CIA in Hong K...

…ose trust he sought when it suited his purpose of protecting himself. For example, as we have seen, in contacting Laura Poitras under the alias Citizen Four in January 2013, he told her that he was currently a “government employee,” although in fact he was working for a private c...

…any. Although headquartered in Singapore, Avro also operated out of Hong Kong, and he frequently travelled there. Like Poitras, Harrison took great care to shield her movements. She did not even have a Twitter, Facebook or any other social media account. She made it a point not...

…his financial supporters in Britain. He also all but exhausted his bank account. Aside from money that dribbled in from Poitras’ five- month old Freedom of the Press Foundation, the only visible source of funds for Wikileaks was the previously-mentioned payments Assange received...

…age news by granting interview to the New York Times, Washington Post, Nation and other elite newspapers. He could join Poitras and Greenwald on the Board of Directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He could be the subject of both an Oscar- winning documentary, the hero...

…“On timing, regarding meeting”: The description of the meetings with Snowden in Hong Kong, June 3-June 9, is taken from Poitras’s documentary Citizenfour. The film can be found at https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/. “The initial impression”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 30....

…is incident because Greenwald described it in great detail in a blog that Snowden read (as he later told Green- wald). “Poitras is now forced to take extreme steps—ones that ham- per her ability to do her work,” Greenwald wrote. “She now avoids traveling with any electronic devic...