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Extraction Summary
3
People
5
Organizations
3
Locations
2
Events
3
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
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Investigative report / narrative account (house oversight committee document)
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Summary
This document appears to be a narrative report (stamped House Oversight) detailing the initial contact between Edward Snowden and filmmaker Laura Poitras. It describes Snowden's employment at Dell in Hawaii in January 2013 and his admiration for Poitras's operational security, which she developed after being placed on a watchlist following her 2005 filming in Iraq. The text outlines how Snowden used Poitras's history of surveillance to establish a connection with her, referring to her as having been 'selected' by the NSA.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Contract employee / Whistleblower |
Working as a computer technician at NSA base in Hawaii; contacting Poitras.
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| Laura Poitras | Filmmaker / Anti-surveillance activist |
Subject of Snowden's contact; targeted by US authorities for her work.
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| Glenn Greenwald | Journalist |
Wrote about Poitras in Salon; associate of Snowden.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Dell |
Snowden's employer in Jan 2013.
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; Snowden's workplace; agency surveilling Poitras.
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| Salon |
Publication where Greenwald wrote about Poitras.
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| US Army |
Intelligence officers suspected Poitras in Iraq.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the footer stamp.
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Timeline (2 events)
2005
Relationships (3)
Snowden contacted her to pass classified documents; admired her security measures.
Snowden read Greenwald's work; planned to pass documents to him.
Greenwald wrote detailed accounts of Poitras's surveillance issues.
Key Quotes (4)
"Poitras is now forced to take extreme steps — ones that hamper her ability to do her work"Source
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"Kafkaesque government harassment."Source
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Quote #2
"more paranoid when it comes to electronic security than I can be."Source
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Quote #3
"The surveillance you’ve experienced means you have been ‘selected’—a term which will mean more to you as you learn how the modern SIGINT system works."Source
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Quote #4
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