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July 14, 2015

Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government over Airport Interrogations 
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Filmmaker Laura Poitras, who won an Oscar for her film "Citizenfour"
about Edward Snowden, is suing the U.S. government to find out why she
has been detained, searched and interrogated more than 50 times at
airports. The interrogations took place over six years, beginning in
2006 when Poitras finished her documentary "My Country, My Country"
about post-invasion Iraq. Poitras said she was suing "in support of the
countless other less high-profile people who have also been subjected to
years of Kafkaesque harassment at the borders."

 

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