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Laura Poitras on Snowden, Watchlists and 'Citizenfour'
Documentarian Laura Poitras on the secretive making of Citizenfour, the film about NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenFilmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras was on a US watchlist for years without knowing why. She's been detained at the US border and had her notebooks and electronics confiscated. So she took no chances while making Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden's historic leak of NSA documents.
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In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras received an encrypted email from a person calling himself Citizenfour. He promised to deliver shocking information about the degree to which the federal government was spying on American citizens.
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