Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It must have been like that with you and Snowden. But what if he'd been a graying guy… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals... — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given… — Laura Poitras Copy Share
There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance.… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
Snowden has presented us with choices on how we want to move forward into the future. We're at a crossroads and we still don't… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies. — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure. — Laura Poitras Copy Share
I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets and in many cases exposing government illegality. They're coming after the journalists and they're coming after the whistleblowers. It's not a good sign if the government is expending much energy trying to find out who journalists… — Laura Poitras Copy Share
The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do. — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
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