Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden became known worldwide as the first person to have shattered the illusion that private information is safe from unlawful government surveillance. The US government’s reaction to the previous rumor of a second 'Snowden' was based on a report in Greenwald’s The Intercept, which implied the existence of another classified document leaker in July. But in Poitras’s new two-hour documentary, 'Citizenfour,' named after the online handle Snowden used to first leak classified documents to her and Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist can be seen talking with Snowden and discussing a second source of leaks in...
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