Laura Poitras

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals...

— Laura Poitras

In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources…

— Laura Poitras

Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we…

— Laura Poitras

I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build…

— Laura Poitras

There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to…

— Laura Poitras

Snowden has presented us with choices on how we want to move forward into the future. We're at a crossroads and we…

— Laura Poitras

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

— Laura Poitras

We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer…

— Laura Poitras

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

— Laura Poitras

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress…

— Laura Poitras

We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing…

— Laura Poitras

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

— Laura Poitras

Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking…

— Laura Poitras

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds…

— Laura Poitras

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

— Laura Poitras

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

— Laura Poitras

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual…

— Laura Poitras

From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the…

— Laura Poitras

The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New…

— Laura Poitras

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and…

— Laura Poitras

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

— Laura Poitras

So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic…

— Laura Poitras

Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy…

— Laura Poitras

The fact that the CIA knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers were entering the United States and didn't notify the FBI…

— Laura Poitras

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

— Laura Poitras