poitras

That said, Laura Poitras in bustling Berlin or an entire major newspaper might be an easier target...

American filmmaker Linda Poitras introduced the person responsible for the largest intelligence leak in U.

Also, he mentions later on that Laura Poitras was at attendance at that talk, who of course went onto direct Citizenfour.

Mixing up Berlin/Laura Poitras with Moscow/Snowden is so incredibly sloppy, especially when it's being misused in an attempt to make a point.

Now both Poitras and Greenwald are afraid to go back to US, though.

Greenwald and Poitras deserve a lot of credit for the responsible dissemination.

> That said, Laura Poitras in bustling Berlin or an entire major newspaper might be an easier target...

For example, Greenwald, Applebaum and Poitras have been 'selected'.

>American filmmaker Linda Poitras introduced the person responsible for the largest intelligence leak in U.

On top of that, the e-mail was sent months after he first contacted Greenwald and Poitras - he was almost on his way out the door to Hong Kong at that point.

We know that large portions (if not all) of the archive were handed over to Greenwald, Poitras and various newspapers, who wrote stories based on the information contained therein, redacting information as they saw fit.

Relinquishing those documents to journalists he knew to be technologically uneducated (remember, he had to teach Poitras and Greenwald how to use PGP and adopt the basics of computer security) cannot, with logical consistency, be considered as placing them into authoritatively safe hands.

But the constitution continues: "No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." Which, actually, may not be an evidentiary standard that could be met here, assuming Greenwald and Poitras don't testify.

Poitras's and Greenwald's behavior support a conclusion that they are not afraid to go back to the U.

It's that third party that, in the case of Manning's files (WikiLeaks), was hasty and cavalier in its release of information, whereas Greenwald/Poitras/Etc.

Based on Laura Poitras' public statements, this has stopped for her.