Laura Poitras recently won the Academy Award for CITIZENFOUR, her documentary on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the director claims that she’s long been hassled by U.S. federal authorities for years, resulting in multiple unmerited airport detentions. Now she’s suing the government to find out exactly why. Poitras, represented by the
Academy Award Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues After Being Detained Over 50 Times
“I’m filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law.”