Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, from 'Citizenfour,' a film by Laura Poitras.

The Day Edward Snowden First Called Laura Poitras

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 23, 2014

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras tells the story of what happened when she began receiving encrypted emails by someone calling himself "citizen four." He turned out to be Edward Snowden, and Poitras and Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. Her documentary “Citizenfour” tells how Poitras and Greenwald first met with Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them documents revealing the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Poitras is a MacArthur Genius Fellow and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. “Citizenfour” opens October 24 at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and IFC Center.

 

You can watch Laura Poitras's documentary "My Country, My Country" free here.

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