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13 Jul 2015, 4:33 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” Via EFF – Oscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 8:00 am by Quinta Jurecic
Laura Poitras, Citizenfour filmmaker and co-founder of The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, has filed suit against the United States over what she terms "Kafkaesque harassment" on the basis of her interactions with Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 6:24 pm by Benjamin Wittes
I have just read George Packer’s profile of Laura Poitras in the New Yorker, which centers around her new, long-awaited film about Edward Snowden. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 8:58 am by Jamie Williams
EFF is currently representing Poitras in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, and some of the documents disclosed in the course of that lawsuit are on display as part of the exhibit, Laura Poitras: Astro Noise. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 3:07 pm by rainey Reitman
We extend our congratulations to Laura Poitras and everyone who helped create CITIZENFOUR. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 12:12 pm by rainey Reitman
Laura Poitras won an Academy Award for her documentary CITIZENFOUR. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 4:38 pm by rtruman
Documentary Directors Protest Homeland Security Treatment Of Helmer Laura Poitras [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 9:33 am
­– Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. transportation security agencies today demanding they release records documenting a six-year period in which she was searched, questioned, and often subjected to hours-long security screenings at U.S. and overseas airports on more than 50 occasions. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 4:28 pm by Jamie Williams
The government recently revealed for the first time that federal agents maintained an open investigation of our client, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, for six years despite never finding any evidence that she committed a crime or was a threat to national security. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 12:55 pm by Joe Silver
The 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling was awarded Monday to Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 9:27 am by Ruthann Robson
With the release of "Citizen Four," the film by Laura Poitras on Friday, two videos are worth a watch. [read post]
16 Feb 2014, 5:46 pm by Benjamin Wittes
” The story’s dual byline included Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker who was one of the recipients of the Snowden documents and who does not work for the New York Times but who has freelanced major pieces for the paper using Snowden material. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:50 am by jamie
Laura Poitras—the Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist behind CITIZENFOUR and Risk—wants to know why she was stopped and detained at the U.S. border every time she entered the country between July 2006 and June 2012. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 12:52 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
You can put this lawsuit against Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and others in the “no hope” category. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 1:06 pm by Jessica Preis
By Jessica Preis* On February 5, 2016, journalist, filmmaker, and artist Laura Poitras opened an exhibit at the Whitney Museum titled Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, which will run through May 5, 2016. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 1:06 pm by Jessica Preis
By Jessica Preis* On February 5, 2016, journalist, filmmaker, and artist Laura Poitras opened an exhibit at the Whitney Museum titled Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, which will run through May 5, 2016. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 2:38 pm by Joe Mullin
Laura Poitras gained notoriety as the documentary filmmaker behind the 2014 Oscar-winning movie Citizenfour, a film about the time she and Glenn Greenwald spent with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 8:40 am by Cyrus Farivar
Edward Snowden first bonded with Laura Poitras—the filmmaker and one of the two journalists who first exposed his leaks from the National Security Agency (NSA)—when Snowden “discovered Laura was more suspicious of me than I was of her, and I’m famously paranoid. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 4:58 am by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law A new digital publication, The Intercept, created by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, launched today. [read post]
22 May 2014, 1:32 pm by Jeralyn
Check out the latest from The Intercept (Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras), Data Pirates of the Carribean, on an NSA and DEA program called "SomalGet", which is part of MYSTIC. [read post]