Here
are the surveillance programs he helped expose
Oliver
Stone’s latest film, “Snowden,” bills itself as a dramatized
version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who
revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
Stone’s
rendering of Snowden’s life combines facts with Hollywood
invention, covering Snowden being discharged from the military after
an injury in basic training, meeting his girlfriend, and training in
the CIA with fictitious mentors (including Nicolas Cage’s
character, most likely a composite of whistleblowers like Thomas
Drake and Bill Binney). Snowden then goes undercover, only to see an
op turn ugly; becomes a contractor for the CIA and NSA; and finally
chooses to leave the intelligence community and disclose its vast
surveillance apparatus, some of which he helped develop.
The movie
hits key points in Snowden’s story, including his growing interest
in constitutional law and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, some of the U.S. surveillance programs he eventually unmasked,
and parts of his furtive meetings in Hong Kong with Glenn Greenwald
and Laura Poitras (co-founders of The Intercept), as well as The
Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill.
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