{"id":54448,"date":"2015-03-02T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=54448"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:03","slug":"citizenfour-full-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/03\/citizenfour-full-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"CitizenFour \u2013 Full Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Poitras has won an Academy Award for her documentary \u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/citizenfourfilm.com\/\" >CITIZENFOUR<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u201d, an inside look at National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which has been hailed as a real-life thriller, chronicles Snowden\u2019s effort to securely contact Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013 and meet them in Hong Kong, where Poitras filmed Snowden discussing the thousands of classified <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leaksource.info\/category\/nsa-files\/\" >NSA documents<\/a> he was leaking to them, and his motives for doing so. The film takes its title from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leaksource.info\/2014\/10\/13\/excerpts-of-first-emails-from-edward-snowden-aka-citizen-four-to-laura-poitras-re-nsa-leaks\/\" >pseudonym Snowden used when he contacted Poitras in encrypted emails<\/a> that were revealed in her documentary.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cThe disclosures that Edward Snowden reveals don\u2019t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,\u201d<\/em> Poitras said in her acceptance speech. \u201c<em>When the most important decisions being made affecting all of us are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control. Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers. And I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Snowden statement <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/technology-and-liberty\/edward-snowden-congratulates-laura-poitras-winning-best-documentary-oscar-cit\" >via ACLU<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I\u2019m grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leaksource.info\/2015\/01\/21\/citizenfour-2014\/\" ><strong>WATCH CITIZENFOUR HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leaksource.info\/category\/citizenfour\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 leaksource.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film, which has been hailed as a real-life thriller, chronicles Snowden\u2019s effort to securely contact Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013 and meet them in Hong Kong, where Poitras filmed Snowden discussing the thousands of classified NSA documents he was leaking to them, and his motives for doing so. The film takes its title from the pseudonym Snowden used when he contacted Poitras in encrypted emails that were revealed in her documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}