Waiting for answers: DHS lawsuit.

• Author: Shackford, Scott
• Position: Laura Poitras, Department of Homeland Security - Citings - Brief article

LAURA POITRAS may not be as famous as Edward Snowden, but the documentarian is one of the reasons Americans even know who the whistleblower is. Snowden worked with her and journalist Glenn Greenwald to expose the federal government's surveillance on its own citizens. Poitras won an Academy award for Citizenfour, her movie about Snowden's leak.

The filmmaker has had her own miserable experiences with the post-9/II security state. For six years, from 2006 to 2012, Poitras found herself on a Department of Homeland Security watchlist, being detained and interrogated by officials whenever she attempted to fly. She's not entirely certain why she was singled out, but even before Citizenfour she made films about the war on terror, about life under occupation in Iraq, and about men who worked...