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19 May 2010, 1:52 pm by David Felsen, ACLU
Join us in New York City tonight for a special screening of The Oath, a gripping documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Laura Poitras that tells the story of Salim Hamdan, the first Guantánamo prisoner to face the controversial military commissions held at the prison camp, and a man known as “Abu Jandal,” Osama Bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and the brother-in-law of Hamdan. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 11:10 am by Bruce Schneier
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exploit networks around the world. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 6:19 am by Steve Vladeck
To commemorate (if that’s even the right word) the eleventh anniversary of the detention of non-citizens at Guantánamo, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras (whose work includes, among others, The Oath) has this short op-ed and movie up on the New York Times‘ website, documenting the return home to Yemen of the body of Adnan Latif, who died at Guantánamo in September. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 7:35 am by Matt Danzer
The Metropolitan police detained and questioned Miranda, a Brazilian national and the partner of Glenn Greenwald, as he was returning to Brazil after meeting with Laura Poitras in Berlin. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 3:56 am by Ryan Mulvey
Customs and Border Protection told a D.C. federal court Friday that they’ve provided filmmaker Laura Poitras with all information available under the Freedom of Information Act related to why she was continually detained at airport security checkpoints for six years, fighting her allegation that they’re wrongly withholding information.Read more here (subscription required). [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 4:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
James Risen reported from Washington, and Laura Poitras from Berlin. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 1:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars — a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway, by Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt and Michael Sontheimer, January 17, 2015. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 4:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF – “We’re excited to announce that Canarywatch has added its 50th canary: First Look Media, the parent company for The Intercept—the news site created by journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.EFF-  “Warrant canary” is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that an internet service provider (ISP) has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a… [read post]
31 May 2014, 8:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS “The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 3:51 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Spiegel Online - Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Michael Sontheimer:  [Treaure Map] “is the mandate for a massive raid on the digital world. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 2:50 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Directed by documentarian Laura Poitras, The Oath tells the story of Nasser al-Bahri (a.k.a. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 7:03 pm by Benjamin Wittes
You may not have read much about the latest big scoop in The Intercept, released Friday evening under the bylines of Peter Maass and Laura Poitras and headlined “Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 11:00 am by Jane Chong
Last night, Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a win I have been anticipating since Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize back in April for breaking the Edward Snowden leaks. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 5:13 am by Wells Bennett
Leaker #3: The person who leaked secret documents to Jake Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others in Germany: the Angela Merkel surveillance story, the TAO catalog, the X-KEYSCORE rules. [read post]
19 May 2014, 4:56 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
By Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras: The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 2:24 pm
When journalist Glenn Greenwald and documentary film maker / journalist Laura Poitras responded to emails from an intelligence community member who identified himself at first only as “Citizenfour,” little did they how deep the rabbit hole would be and that unraveling history’s largest spying operation – a worldwide mass dragnet by the NSA that targets essentially everyone on earth – would mean traveling to Hong Kong and debriefing Snowden in a hotel… [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 2:24 pm
When journalist Glenn Greenwald and documentary film maker / journalist Laura Poitras responded to emails from an intelligence community member who identified himself at first only as “Citizenfour,” little did they how deep the rabbit hole would be and that unraveling history’s largest spying operation – a worldwide mass dragnet by the NSA that targets essentially everyone on earth – would mean traveling to Hong Kong and debriefing Snowden in a hotel… [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 11:24 am by Ritika Singh
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras of the Guardian have a two part interview with him about his motives and about his thoughts on the U.S. government’s reaction to his actions. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 1:51 pm
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras' groundbreaking documentary about the whistleblower and the mass surveillance system he exposed, was released in four cities this past Friday to rave reviews. [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 11:59 pm
 Authored by James Risen and Laura Poitras, the story opens with considerable drama by suggesting that the NSA is spying on U.S. lawyers: The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers. [read post]