CITIZENFOUR filmmaker Laura Poitras is suing the U.S. government to find an explanation to why she has been harassed through tracking, targeting and questioning at the US borders while traveling between 2006 and 2012, The Intercept reports. Over these six years, Poitras is said to have been interrogated and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports.
In 2013, Poitras filed a Freedom of Information Act request to access any information about herself that the government had used to determine that she was a danger to national security, but received no response. She said she’s ‘filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law’. The constant harassment stopped in 2012 after Glenn Greenwald — the co-editor of The Intercept with Poitras — published an article denouncing these actions, leading a group of filmmakers to write a petition against it.
14 July 2015.
