WaPo Misread Powerpoint- Story on Feds tapping directly into internet companies was wrong & rushed

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16. The co-author of the WaPo story was Laura Poitras. She is getting ready to release the final install

ment of her trilogy on gov't security/spying etc. From Wikipedia:

The third part will focus on how the War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance, covert activities and attacks on whistleblowers. Poitras says her work has been hampered by constant harassment by border agents during more than three dozen border crossings into and out of the United States. She has been detained for hours and interrogated and agents have seized her computer, cell phone and reporters notes and not returned them for weeks. Once she was threatened with being refused entry back into the United States.[5] In response to a Glenn Greenwald article about this, a group of film directors started a petition to protest the government's actions against her.[6] In April 2012 Poitras was interviewed about surveillance on Democracy Now and called elected leaders behavior "shameful."

On August 22, 2012 The NYT published an Op-doc that was produced by Laura Poitras and entitled, The Program.[8] It is preliminary work that will be included in a documentary planned for release in 2013 as the final part of the trilogy. The documentary is based on interviews with William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the NSA, who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design. He states that the program he worked on had been designed for foreign espionage, but was converted in 2001 to spying on citizens in the United States, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional and that led to their disclosures. The subject implies that the facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is a facility that is part of that domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that may be mined readily for intelligence without warrants. Poitras reports that on Oct 29, 2012 the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to FISA that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions. (SCOTUS found them legal)

She's buddies with Greenwald, she had an experienced NSA person to ask if the slides looked legit, and she isn't a fan of the gov't.