11 March 2014

Laura Poitras Eyeball

http://cryptome.org/2014/03/gellman-sxsw.htm

How has the NSA surveillance story stayed live?

Barton Gellman: "Snowden paid very careful attention to what had happened to other whistleblowers that hadn't had a long-term impact, and was careful to produce the documents... If Snowden had asked me 6-8 months later [if this story and still been live] but he has got to have exceed every plausible estimation about impact. It's because he didn't realise the documents all at once."

Cryptome strongly disagrees with Barton Gellman and, according to Gellman and Greenwald, allegedly the view of Snowden, on releasing only a few documents out of the thousands being withheld. This paternalism toward the public self-deputizes the document holders as de facto government officials and the elective secretkeeping supports what the spy agencies do to deliberately keep the public in the dark. The vaunted debate remains restricted to a tiny few with access to the documents, all of them exploiting their withholding for commercial purposes. This is an inexcusable travesty based on the special privileges of journalists working in concert with officials.

Cryptome, 21 January 2014: This is an FOI request to Snowden, Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, NY Times, for full release of Snowden's de facto declassified USG documents. Send to: Cryptome, 251 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024. Cost of digital reproduction on USBs will be paid. Public key for encrypting <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>: Fingerprint=5D02 335F 26A1 BD73 BFE3 F519 3755 7319 F9FC 4719

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras

Laura Poitras is an American documentary film director and producer. She resides in Berlin. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. According to Glenn Greenwald, Poitras and Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of the global surveillance disclosure initiated by the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden.

In 2013 Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of the leaked NSA documents, and helped to produce stories exposing previously secret U.S. intelligence activities. She later worked with Jacob Appelbaum and writers and editors at Der Spiegel to cover disclosures about mass surveillance, particularly those relating to NSA activity in Germany.

She filmed, edited, and produced Channel 4's alternative to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013, the "Alternative Christmas Message", featuring Edward Snowden.

In October 2013 Poitras joined with reporters Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill to establish an on-line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar's "concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world" sparked the idea for the new media outlet. The first publication from that group, a digital magazine called The Intercept, launched on 10 February, 2014. Poitras, Greenwald, and Scahill all serve as editors.

Poitras is reportedly living in Berlin, Germany.

Laura Poitras Eyeball

https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress/status/344534408801447936/photo/1

Kirsten Johnson (L) and Laura Poitras http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Laura+Poitras+Kirsten+Johnson+2010+ Sundance+LCRp_4mkt0ol.jpg

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Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3679/12252550686_3c870ff11d_o.jpg

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http://www.intelius.com

http://www.advancedbackgroundchecks.com/d/laura-poitras/8105110

http://www.411.com/name/Laura-S-Poitras/New-York-NY/20msjux

http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/BBLResult

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