Detained in the US: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at US Airports
April 20, 2012
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States. Poitras said the interrogations began after she began working on her documentary, "My Country, My Country," about post-invasion Iraq. Her most recent film, "The Oath" was about Yemen and Guantánamo, and follows the lives of two past associates of Osama bin Laden. She estimates she has been detained an estimated 40 times and has had her laptop, cell phone, and personal belongings repeatedly searched. Tonight she is leading a surveillance teach-in at the Whitney Museum in New York City with our other guests, computer-security research and government target Jacob Appelbaum and National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney. Poitras' is currently at work on a film about post-9/11 America.
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