SNOWDEN - Official Trailer Released! (VID)

[jllundqu]

Ed Snowden tweeted the following:


For two minutes and thirty nine seconds, everybody at NSA just stopped working. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4

[Todd]

Hope it's good. Hope millions flock to see it.

[jllundqu]

I can hear the propaganda machines already spinning...

[Bern]

Well, this is Oliver Stone, so expect it to be dramatized and not necessarily rooted in fact. Will it be more compelling than Citizen Four? I expect it will reach a larger audience, so I hope it does justice to the truth.

[twomp]

Will Donald Trump want to execute the director and the actors of this movie now too?

[jllundqu]

Will Donald Trump want to execute the director and the actors of this movie now too?

Quiet! We don't want to remind all the RPF Trumpsters that he said Snowden should be executed for treason!

[EBounding]

JGL does a good job imitating his voice.

[Warlord]

looks cheesy

[FindLiberty]

Will Donald Trump want to execute the director and the actors of this movie now too?

Sure thing.

And if anyone else decides to go out and risk watching this movie, well their name were probably already on some list anyhow.

Now spit out the kool-aid and get back under your bed where it's still safe.

[VIDEODROME]

Well, this is Oliver Stone, so expect it to be dramatized and not necessarily rooted in fact. Will it be more compelling than Citizen Four? I expect it will reach a larger audience, so I hope it does justice to the truth.

I hope this can be tied into the current encryption debate and Snowden's impact on it. Also, I'd really like it if some of the Tech can be explained to lay people so they understand why it's important to them and not just used by Terrorists with Encrypted Phones.

[twomp]

Sure thing.

And if anyone else decides to go out and risk watching this movie, well their name were probably already on some list anyhow.

Now spit out the kool-aid and get back under your bed where it's still safe.

And what kool-aid is that? Looks like you need to stop sipping on the kool-aid genius... Trump supporters... sharp as a ball.

Make America a Police State again!

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

Elect John McAfee before it's too late

[Champ]

To the common man, often is the case that something isn't real until it's on tv or film. I hope that applies here to people that still take the side of the NSA and watch the film.

[Warlord]

the guy playing Snowden has a weird accent or he's trying too hard to sound like Snowden, it doesn't work well

[muh_roads]

Elect John McAfee before it's too late

McAfee said that the gov't should monitor "irregular" traffic like encryption and encrypted VPN's.

I wasn't too impressed with his answers in this field at that Stossel libertarian debate.

[dannno]

the guy playing Snowden has a weird accent or he's trying too hard to sound like Snowden, it doesn't work well

Ya it would be cool if they had Snowden play Snowden.

[Mr.NoSmile]

Hey. Nicolas Cage playing it straight instead of crazy. Good.

[spudea]

Thats a poorly put together trailer. Very boring.

[georgiaboy]

I'll fork out the tenner for that.

[Suzanimal]

Wow, well worth the click to read the whole story.


How Snowden Escaped

HONG KONG — The tall, lanky American dressed in all black looked familiar. But Ajith, a 44-year-old Sri Lankan refugee seeking asylum in Hong Kong figured the nervous-looking man with the red-rimmed eyes fidgeting in the darkness outside the United Nations building in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon was a U.S. army dodger.

Summoned by his immigration lawyer in the late evening of June 10, 2013, Ajith (last names of the refugees in this story have been withheld), a former soldier in the Sri Lankan military, was told the unidentified man was “famous” and needed “protection.” Little else was revealed except that he would be responsible for covertly moving the American around at a moment’s notice.

“I was very happy to help him,” Ajith recalled during a recent interview with the National Post in his small windowless room in Kennedy Town, on the western tip of Hong Kong Island. “This famous person was a refugee too, same as me.”

Earlier that day, that “famous” 29-year-old walked out of the five-star luxury Hotel Mira in Kowloon and sparked an intensive global manhunt not seen since the search for al-Qaeda’s Osama Bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001, bombings.

Edward Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence contractor, became the most wanted fugitive in the world after leaking a cache of classified documents to the media detailing extensive cyber spying networks by the U.S. government on its own citizens and governments around the world.

To escape the long arm of American justice, the man responsible for the largest national security breach in U.S. history retained a Canadian lawyer in Hong Kong who hatched a plan that included a visit to the UN sub-office where the North Carolina native applied for refugee status to avoid extradition to the U.S.

Fearing the media would surround and follow Snowden — making it easier for the Hong Kong authorities to arrest the one-time Central Intelligence Agency analyst on behalf of the U.S. — his lawyers made him virtually disappear for two weeks from June 10 to June 23, 2013, before he emerged on an Aeroflot airplane bound for Moscow, where he remains stranded today in self-imposed exile.

“That morning, I had minutes to figure out how to get him to the UN, away from the media, and out of harm’s way with the weight of the U.S. government bearing down on him. I did what I had to do, and could do, to help him,” Robert Tibbo, the whistleblower’s lead lawyer in Hong Kong told the Post in a wide-ranging interview, the first detailing the chaotic days of Snowden’s escape three years ago. “They wanted the data and they wanted to shut him down. Our greatest fear was that Ed would be found.”

The covert scheme to dodge U.S. attempts to arrest Snowden could have been ripped from the pages of a spy thriller.

The fugitive was disguised in a dark hat and glasses and transported by car at night by two lawyers to safe houses on the crowded and impoverished fringes of Hong Kong. Snowden hunkered down in small, cluttered, dingy rooms where as many as four people shared less than 150 square feet. Batteries were removed from cellphones when they gathered, burner phones were used to place calls, SIM cards were exchanged and sophisticated computer encryption was used to communicate when face-to-face meetings were not possible. Snowden rarely ventured out, and only at night where he could easily be lost among the many other asylum seekers.

“Nobody would dream that a man of such high profile would be placed among the most reviled people in Hong Kong,” recalled Tibbo, a Canadian-born and educated barrister who has practiced law for 15 years. “We put him in a place where no one would look.”

Perhaps more importantly, added Jonathan Man, another Snowden lawyer who worked alongside Tibbo: “We knew (the asylum seekers) because we had helped them on their (immigration cases). And we knew they would not betray us.”

Until now, details of how Snowden avoided detection, and where and who sheltered him have been closely guarded secrets known only by the famed whistleblower and his Hong Kong-based lawyers. Since then, he has become a controversial figure: a traitor to U.S. lawmakers and many in the intelligence community, but a pop-culture icon to legions of anti-establishment followers. Inevitably, Hollywood has entered the fray with a biopic of his life, directed by Oliver Stone and produced with Snowden’s cooperation; the film is scheduled for a world premiere on September 9 at the Toronto Film Festival.

“Imagine the world’s most wanted dissident brought to your door. Would you open it? They didn’t even hesitate, and I’ll always be grateful for that,” Snowden said in an exclusive encrypted text to the Post.

The lives of the refugee families who concealed Snowden without question — and without much choice — may be forever changed now that their roles in helping him elude law enforcement will become public in the upcoming movie.

“I think these are very brave, selfless people who did something extraordinary at a very difficult time and at enormous personal risk,” said Laura Poitras, a journalist and Oscar-winning documentary maker who filmed Snowden inside his Hong Kong hotel room for eight days.

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- See more at: http://news.nationalpost.com/features/how-edward-snowden-escaped-hong-kong#sthash.ojvq6f6t.dpuf

[chudrockz]

Quiet! We don't want to remind all the RPF Trumpsters that he said Snowden should be executed for treason!

Hey, executing people for (truth telling) "treason" is just dandy! Because remember, he wants to build a wall against those damned Mexicans and he doesn't like the TPP!

[Chester Copperpot]

id go watch this in a theatre as long as I can eat and taste and enjoy raisinets by then

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Ughhh, Nicolas Cage, and that shitty actor that ruined Spock. Horrible Casting.

[jllundqu]

Ughhh, Nicolas Cage, and that shitty actor that ruined Spock. Horrible Casting.

Yeah.... but it makes sense. Glenn Greenwald is gay so they cast gay Spock....

[John F Kennedy III]

Yeah.... but it makes sense. Glenn Greenwald is gay so they cast gay Spock....

When did Nicolas Cage play Spock?

[PierzStyx]

"Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies."

I'll pay to see this. Hopefully everyone else will too.

[PierzStyx]

When did Nicolas Cage play Spock?

Zachary Quinto.

[Tinnuhana]

Think it will be showing at any AAFES theaters?

[liveandletlive]

usually the trailer is the most exciting part of any movie these days, im a little worried about this one.