Laura Poitras Dedicates Citizen 4 Oscar To Edward Snowden With Glenn Greenwald By Her Side [View all]

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Notice the MSM's headline in the link. They are still obsessed with Snowden's girlfriend it seems:

Edward Snowden's Girlfriend Makes an Appearance

Mills joined director Laura Poitras, producer Dirk Wilutzky and journalist Glenn Greenwald onstage.

Poitras’ film documents her initial meeting in Hong Kong with Snowden.

Snowden was charged under the federal Espionage Act and is currently living in asylum in Russia. Because of the sensitive nature of the footage, Poitras made "Citizenfour" under intense secrecy and edited it in Germany.

"Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage, and for the many other whistleblowers, and I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth," Poitras said when accepting the award.

Laura Poitras Dedicates 'Citizenfour' Best Documentary Win To Edward Snowden

"Citizenfour" won Best Documentary at the Oscars on Sunday night. Director Laura Poitras accepted the award with Glenn Greenwald by her side.

"The disclosures that Edward Snowden reveals don't only expose a threat to privacy but to democracy itself," she said "Thank you to Edward Snowden and to the many other whistleblowers."

The oppressive treatment of Whistle Blowers, while the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against the Constitution walk free, should now, if it wasn't always, be enough of an embarrassment to this country that the persecution of Whistle Blowers should stop.

What should happen is some serious investigations into the revelations by Chelsea Manning, eg, who WARNED her country about the Maliki Government in Iraq's torture and oppression of its population, which has now led to the creation of ISIS.

But there was no investigation into those revelations, the Whistle Blower was given 35 years and effectively silenced.

Chelsea Manning should have her ridiculous conviction vacated as soon as possible and restitution ought to be made to her for the persecution and torture she was subjected to.

Laura Poitras is an incredibly brave woman and when this chapter of history is finally written, she, and all those who, in the face of the threats to their own freedom, insisted on telling the truth.