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Subject line you type, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited, who safeguards are not. Citizen four. The new film by Laura Poitras provides an inside look at Edward Snowden and his decision to blow the whistle on the National Security agency. We will play excerpts of the remarkable film and speak to Laura Poitras. I hope the film shows the risk these people take and that people should stand up for them and this is the information the public should know. Then, blackwater, guilty. As a u. S. Jury convicts four former blackwater guards in connection with the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed iraqis at a baghdad traffic circle, we will speak to Jeremy Scahill, author of blackwater the rise of the worlds most powerful mercenary army. His latest book, dirty wars. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Canadian Capital ottawa was thrown into turmoil wednesday by a shooting spree. The gunman first shot and killed Corporal Nathan cirillo, an Army Reservist who was guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, then entered the nearby parliament and opened fire before he was shot dead. The gunman was identified as michael zehafbibeau, a convert to islam with a criminal record of drug and robbery offenses. The attack came two days after a man identified as a radicalized convert to islam drove a car into two canadian soldiers, killing one of them. The incidents have sparked fears of blowback after canada became a key ally in the u. S. Led fight against the Islamic State. Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper addressed the nation. Canada will never be intimidated. In fact, this will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts and those of our National Security agents. To take all necessary steps to identify and encounter threats and keeps and get it a safe at home, just as it will lead us to streets in our laws and redouble our efforts to work with our allies around the world and fight against the terrorist organizations who brutalized those in other countries with the hope of bringing their savagery to our shores. Usled air strikes have killed more than 500 people in syria as they begin one month ago. According to the syrian observatory for human rights, most of those killed were Islamic State fighters. 32 were civilians, including six children. The pentagon has confirmed Islamic State militants received one of the bundles of weaponry and other supplies the u. S. Airdropped to kurdish forces. The bundle included small arms and hand grenades. The pentagon said the wind caused it to shift off course. A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against four blackwater operatives involved in the 2007 massacre of 17 iraqi civilians in baghdads nisoor square. Nicholas slatten was found guilty of firstdegree murder, while three other guards were convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Well have more on blackwater with Jeremy Scahill later in the broadcast. The record outbreak of ebola has officially killed nearly 4900 people, but the death toll could actually be about three times that. The World Health Organization says cases continue to go vastly undercounted in liberia, guinea and sierra leone. The World Health Organization has also released new data on a disease that kills far more people each year than ebola. Nine Million People developed tuberculosis last year, and 1. 5 million of them died, even though the disease is curable. About 3. 5 of cases were drugresistant. Mexican authorities have ordered the arrest of the fugitive mayor of iguala and his wife, accusing them of ordering last Months Police attack on students from a rural teachers college. Six people were killed in the initial attacks and 43 students have been missing for almost a month. On wednesday, protesters set fire to igualas city hall, as tens of thousands gathered in mexico city, including fellow students from the teachers college. Who is the most guilty person here for the extrajudicial massacre of our fallen comrades on the 26th of september and the forced disappearances of our comrades . The executive and chief because he should ensure us the Mexican Society is safe. Family members of the missing students traveled to mexico city to attend the protest. Bernabel Abraham Gaspar is the father of a missing student. I dont understand what is happening with authorities. Why do they kill students who are just starting to build their lives . To have a life in a dignified career and work . The white house went into temporary lockdown wednesday when a man jumped over the fence. Unlike last months incident where an intruder ran through the east room, the man was unarmed and quickly detained. The Justice Department has condemned the selective leaking of information on the shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. In a statement, the Department Said there seems to be an inappropriate effort to influence Public Opinion about this case. The statement came after the st. Louis postdispatch published browns official autopsy report, which appears to show brown was shot in the hand at close range. That could support officer Darren Wilsons claim brown struggled for his gun inside a police vehicle, but does not explain why wilson later fired more shots, killing brown. Protests against Police Brutality were held in ferguson, missouri and in more than 80 other cities across the country. New york City Residents joined the 19th annual national day of protest to stop Police Brutality, repression and the criminalization of a generation. I am the mother of a child lost his hands at the lost his life at the hands of the nypd. Im convinced nothing will change concerning this action until it is brought to the highest levels and government. We need nationwide action. We need the was attorney general and the department of justice to deal with the issue of Police Brutality once and for all. Thousands of people have been murdered whose cases we know nothing about because they dont have the ability to have their tragedy highlighted in the media. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. Today, citizen four. Lauric come at this stage i can offer nothing more than my word. Im a senior Government Employee Intelligence Community. I hope you understand contacting you was extremely high risk. For now, know that every border you cross come every purchase you make come every call you dial come every cell phone tower you pass, friend you keep, site you visit him and subject line you type, is in the hands of a systems reach is unlimited, but who safeguards are not. In the end, if you publish this source material, i will likely be immediately implicated. I ask only you ensure this information makes it home to the American Public. Thank you, and be careful, citizen four. Work sorry, my name is Edward Snowden. I go by ed. Edward Joseph Snowden is the full name. That is the trailer to the new film citizen four directed by filmmaker Laura Poitras about National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden. The new documentary offers an inside look at what transpired in a Hong Kong Hotel room over eight days in june 2013 when snowden first met with Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and guardian reporter Ewen Macaskill as he leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to spy on americans and people across the globe. Quirks Laura Poitras filmed over 20 hours in the hotel room, including this moment when snowden was questioned by Ewen Macaskill. By this point the first exposes based on snowdens leaks had been published but his identity was not yet known to the public. Wind did you go public . I think it is pretty soon. This escalated more quickly. I think pretty much assumed as they try to make this about me, which could be any day now. I will come out just to go, hey, this is not a question of me skulking around in the shadows, these are public issues. These are not my issues. These are everybodys issues. Im not afraid of you. Youre not going to bully me into silence like you have done to everybody else. Donobody else is going to it, i will. Hopefully, when im gone, whatever you do to me, that will be some of the else who will do the same thing. It will be the sort of internet principles, the hydra. You can stop one person, but theyre going to be seven more of us. Are you getting more nervous . No. M, i mean, i think the way i look at stress, particularly because i sort of knew this was coming because i sort of volunteered to i am are the sort of familiar with the idea. Im not worried about it. When someone busts in the door, suddenly, i will get nervous. Until they do an excerpt from citizen four, the new film by director Laura Poitras. Her first film, my country, my country, focused on the iraq war and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007. Her second, the oath, was about guantanamo. Citizen four is the third installment of her 9 11 trilogy. The film opens in new york, los angeles, San Francisco and washington, d. C. On friday. Her nsa reporting contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded to the guardian and washington post. We spoke to laura on wednesday and began by asking her about the name of her film, citizen four. Aliastizen four was the Edward Snowden used to contact me in january 2013. We corresponded over the course of five months. I did not know who he was. It was just days before traveling to hong kong that i had a name for the person i have been talking to. Why did he choose that name . Good question. I made a trip to moscow not that long ago where i filmed part of the end of the film where he is with his longtime partner lyndsay mills. I asked him, because i did not ever know what it was, and he said, well, not the first person who is going to come forward and reveal information the public should know, and i wont be the last. That is where it comes from. Talks one of the most striking things about the film, snowden never appears to have considered the possibility of leaking anonymously. Were you struck by that . I was very shocked. Ands contacted in january we had email correspondence for a long time. For the first three months, i assumed he would remain an anonymous source. He would not come any details about where he works or where he lived. I thought i was talking to somebody, some point i would receive documents, and then he would disappear and i would never know who the person was. In april, he revealed to me, he said, you should know i attend i intend to come ford i am the source of this information, that he did not want to hide or others to take responsibility and if there was a leak investigation, etc. He told me that and that is when i said, well, if that is the case, i would really like to meet you. And be able to film so i could understand your motivations. His First Response was that he did not so comfortable because he did not want the story to be about him, just something he echoes in the film is talking to glenn in the first interview and says, im not the story. I said, the media will make you this story in your motivations really do matter. Then he agreed and that is how or what led to the facetoface meeting in hong kong. How did he find you . As Glenn Greenwald has written in his book, he received asking in december 2012 to set up an encrypted way of talking thomas and yet information he thought glenn would be interested in but he was very vague and did not say anything specific. Glenn wasnt using encryption at that point. I then received an anonymous email in january from someone i did not know, asking me for my public key and a public key is what is used for encryption. You have a key, you exchange keys, and your able to communicate securely. I had a key. I had been using encryption for a while. It was an easy thing for me to do. I said, here is my key. Who are you and what you want . Then we started this correspondence. The following email was the one here at the beginning of the film as we are moving tunnel, which he says, im a member of the Intelligence Community, this will not be a waste of your time , and he says other details like imagine your adversaries capable of one trillion guesses per second. That was the beginning of our correspondents in january. Says, you, snowden asked why i chose you, i didnt him a you chose yourself. He says to you in one of your chats. Works after the first email i respond, then why me . Help me understand this. I was being a little cautious. It could be entrapment or something. Then he referenced the fact i andbeen put on a watchlist stopped at the u. S. Borders many times. I think he read about that. Glenn had written about the fact i had been stopped at the border. I had also published a short video about another nsa when blower whistleblower William Binney. My guess is that he had seen both of those things. And he knew i was somebody who was working on nsarelated things i knew also i have been ,argeted in some ways so i had i guess, maybe a personal connection to the issue. , Edward Snowdende wrote you talked about being stopped dozensborder dozens and of times. In fact, it is how you opened citizenfour and told us on democracy now before. Talk about those experiences. How many times have you been stopped crossing the border . I think about 40 times. It started in 2006 and continued until 2012 exley, until glenn wrote about it and then they stopped detaining me and questioning me at the border. In terms of what happens at the border, i admit a film about the iraq wars, so i said just spent some time in the war zone. Dont think what i think it is, i dont think the u. S. Government is watching films and theres just some thought police that says we dont like this film and we will stop this person, but as we know, there is this growth of the Intelligence Community which has created the secret watchlist process. People get put on it and once you get put on it, theres no way to get off of it. Time i would return to the United States, Border Agents would be sent to the plane and i would be walked off into an area where i would be questioned. Many Different Things happen. Each time a slightly different. Sometimes they would photocopy my notebooks and sometimes my credit cards. I had my computer confiscated once, my camera confiscated once. They were asking questions about know, why doing, you hours traveling to the places i was traveling. When it first started, i thought, this is clearly a mistake. I answered questions and said, a missile maker going to film festival, i made a film about the iraq war, thinking once i explained that, i would be taken off the watchlist. They got mad when you started taking notes about their questions. Right. And then things changed. Things are not changing anytime soon. I started writing down the questions, the times owes to 10, etc. They were not particularly happy about that. It did escalate in 2012 when i newar airportvia and a was taking notes and a threatened tok handcuff me for taking notes. They made arguments they thought i i was going to physically hurt them with the pen. I had not made it a secret i was being stopped, but the work that i do, i often i was going to places and trying to stand with the radar and going public is hard. You cannot dial Something Like that back. It was so outrageous, that Border Agents were ordering me to not take notes or they were going to handcuff me, that i called glenn and he ended up doing an article about it for salon. Com. That is part of the reason youd decided to take the material to berlin that you got of Edward Snowden and do the editing there rather than here in the u. S. . Right. Actually, it was before i was contacted by snowden. I had been filming for a while. I wanted to edit and i felt like i could not assure a was going to be able to keep my footage source material secure crossing the border. At that point, i was filming with several people who are all being targeted by the government, including William Binney, the nsa whistleblower, thomas drake another nsa whistleblower, Jacob Applebaum train