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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Edward Snowden Documentary, CitizenFour Wins Oscar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=600 height=340 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D04F65.EC0ADB10" alt="Description: Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald receive an award for national security reporting for their stories on the spy programmes. "></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald receive an award for national security reporting for their stories on the spy programmes. | Photo: Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Published 23 February 2015 (11 hours 1 minutes ago) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=27 height=23 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D04F65.EC0ADB10" alt="Description: Coments"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The documentary received the award while the U.S. administration is still considering the whistleblower’s revelations as “treason.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CitizenFour won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday, an award that its director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald collected, later joined on stage by Edward Snowden's partner Lindsay Mills. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“The disclosures of Edward Snowden don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” said Poitras when receiving the Oscar. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“When the decisions that rule us are taken in secret we lose the power to control and govern ourselves,” she said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanking Snowden for his “sacrifices,” she added “I share this award with Glenn Greenwald and the many other journalists who are taking risks to expose the truth.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Responding to the award, Snowden, currently in exile in Moscow, wrote a note to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) thanking Poitras for a “brilliant” documentary. “My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The documentary tells the story of former NSA contractor Snowden who revealed how the U.S. agency spied on citizens of the world in June 2013. CitizenFour refers to the pseudonym Snowden used when he entered in contact with Poitras. Poitras had already been nominated in the 2007 Oscars for her film My Country, My Country, describing the lives of Iraqis under the occupation of the U.S. army. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Among other things, Poitras' documentary depicts how whistle blowers are poorly protected and how Snowden's rescue by Wikileaks was difficult when he was judicially persecuted in Hong Kong by the U.S. government. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Even if Snowden focuses on his revelations rather than his personal life in the film, "The fact that he is now living in domestic bliss as well, with his long-term girlfriend whom he loves, should forever put to rest the absurd campaign to depict his life as grim and dank," stated Greenwald when the film was first released, in New York in October. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>See more:</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/NSA-Linked-Spyware-Widespread-Impossible-to-Remove-20150217-0001.html"><span style='color:blue'>NSA-Linked Spyware Widespread, Impossible to Remove</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Snowden-Says-Canada-Spy-Agency-Runs-a-Global-Snooping-Program--20150129-0009.html"><span style='color:blue'>Snowden Says Canada Spy Agency Runs a Global Snooping Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>