Laura Poitras, the documentary maker who played an important role in the disclosures of Snowden – she shot among other things the video that was posted on the website of The Guardian – was forced to move to Europe, according to an article in Saturday’s Times, because she’s on a watchlist.
To me, this one of the most disturbing details of the Snowden story till now. Why would a documentary maker, whose documentaries were nominated for the Oscars and one of her movies was shown on the website of the NY Times, be on a watchlist?

The Times described her relations with her own government as tense. It would be helpful to know a bit more about these tense relations.
If for no other reason than to avoid the impression that the US government has rather narrow-minded moral standards: we don’t like your work, we put you on a watch list.

(Read the complete article by Noam Cohen here.)

(This article on Democracy Now! is also worth reading, read it here.)