[Peace-discuss] links: Poitras' Citizenfour wins Oscar for best documentary

[Karen Aram]

Roger, I haven't seen the film, but I do remember from interviews with Snowden when he first made headlines, not those on the corporate owned media, but with DemocracyNow, and Snowden never claimed to be a high level NSA official. He worked for Booz Allen, a government contractor, along with many others. One of the points he made was that he wasn't "high level" and yet he had access to all the information that he did, and found this very disturbing. 
 
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:06:48 -0800
> To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> CC: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] links: Poitras' Citizenfour wins Oscar for best	documentary
> From: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
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> I wonder how many winning documentaries open with a lie - Snowden
> claiming to be high level NSA official, something that he never was,
> never examine the lie to see what else is a lie, or include outright
> lie by one of the film maker participants - the conference in Brazil
> speech - this selection is a travesty - you do not award an Oscar to
> what is in effect a PR flack - Snowden played the media, still is - he
> is a thief who makes grandilose claims, many of which are not true in
> the least - the only thing true is the damage that he has done to our
> security by making groups like ISIS aware - I am sure that none of you
> agree, but if you actually watch this with a critical eye instead of
> fauning all over your hero, you will realize that he never was what he
> claims that he is and he personally never could do things like listen
> to your phone calls like he has claimed to be able to do.  I wonder if
> a campaign can undo an Oscar and result in a public revocation.
> 
> Roger
> 
> PS - who paid for the room in the hotel in Hong Kong - was the phone
> call sequence faked - the only thing real is the stolen documents and
> we don't see very many of those -
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/is-citizenfour-worth-celebrating
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> > http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/23/edward-snowden-documentary-citizenfour-wins-oscar
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> > https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/22/poitras-wins-oscar-for-citizenfour/
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> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/22/citizen-four-best-documentary_n_6716094.html
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> > (the last has video of Poitras' acceptance speech.)
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> > It will be quite interesting to see the impact of this on the debate over
> > the re-authorization of the Patriot Act in June. Will Hollywood move
> > Congress...?
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