The film is shaped around Snowden's filmed confession in 2013 where he identifies himself as the man who leaked
thousands of classified documents as evidence to how the government tracks our every move.
At first, the movie (written by Liz Hannah and «Spotlight» scribe Josh Singer) appears to have put the camera in the wrong place, given that it was the New York Times that first broke the
leak of classified documents in 1971 that outlined the prosecution of the Vietnam War — and what the government really knew about it — across multiple administrations.
In 1971, following the public revelation of the Pentagon Papers, both the Times and the Post stood tall against an injunction, filed by the Nixon White House, to cease
publication of the classified documents — an attempt at legal clampdown that could well have snuffed the Fourth Estate as we know it.
Watch my video review of Citizenfour, the chilling documentary by Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked tens of thousands of pages
of classified documents about vast U.S. spying operations at home and abroad.
Regular
dumps of classified documents and other internal communications have become a fixture of modern life, thanks in part to stateless — and frequently lawless — entities like WikiLeaks.
What ensued was a Constitutional crisis ultimately settled by the U.S. Supreme Court which had to weigh the Freedom of the Press against President Nixon's (Curzon Dobell) request for an injunction preventing dissemination
of the classified documents in the interest of national security.
In 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked a large
number of classified documents to the media, exposing the U.S. government's covert surveillance activities.
In this case, a Snowden movie will face the same questions as when there was a stampede to make movies about Julian Assange after he dumped reams
of classified documents through WikiLeaks.
Since releasing thousands
of classified documents online through several U.S. media outlets, including the Washington Post, in 2013, Snowden has been charged with violating the Espionage Act.
As if the true story of NSA contractor Edward Snowden wasn't controversial enough — his leak
of classified documents exposed a massive domestic spying program — the movie Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt, is being directed by political controversy auteur Oliver Stone.
US officials have said Pollard, over a series of months and for a salary, provided intelligence summaries and huge
quantities of classified documents on the capabilities and programmes of countries and organisations Israel considers its enemies.
Conway accused CNN of running its story based on anonymous sourcing, referring to CNN's
coverage of classified documents alleging Russian operatives claimed to have compromising information about Trump that CNN reported were presented to the president - elect at the intelligence briefing, a point Conway disputed.
The delivery leads to the paper's ace reporter Ben Bagdikian (a great Bob Odenkirk) to track down Ellsberg and end up with the thousands
of classified documents showing that the American administration has been lying to the world about the Vietnam War and its effectiveness.
Graham's paper, edited by the firebrand Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), is respected but modest, and her push to expand the paper's influence by making it a public company comes to a head the very week that Ellsberg has a shoebox
full of classified documents detailing decades of presidential deceptions about Vietnam War policy placed on the desk of one of The Washington Post's assignment reporters.
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands
of classified documents distributed to the press.
His belief that the US government isn't handling the war well is only heightened when he contributes to what would later be called the Pentagon Papers, a
study of classified documents commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood).
WikiLeaks on Tuesday dumped thousands
of classified documents onto the Internet, exposing hacking programs used by the U.S. Central Intelligence...
Following WikiLeaks» publication earlier this
week of classified documents stolen from the CIA, major technology companies, including Apple, Samsung,...
Ostensibly about how Assange and WikiLeaks rocked the word with a whistleblowing leak on a scale unseen since The Pentagon Papers, the film is more fascinated with the contradictions within the character of Assange, whose achievements were almost eclipsed by accusations of sexual misconduct and his flight from extradition, than on the reverberations of the web
publication of classified documents.
In the case of the Cambridge Five the investment paid off - during their careers they passed countless
numbers of classified documents to Soviet authorities.
And indeed, the U.S. government was embarrassed by a string of
leaks of classified documents, military reports, and hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that Wikileaks...
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, leaked thousands
of classified documents to the press in 2013 which revealed the vast scope of US surveillance of private data that was put in place after the 9/11 attacks.
Previously, Mr Assange has justified his decision to break bail conditions arguing if he faced the Swedish authorities he would be extradited to the US over the publication
of classified documents.
Edward Snowden's leak
of classified documents to journalists around the world about massive government surveillance programs and threats to personal privacy ultimately resulted in a Pulitzer Prize for public service.
Based on true events, Snowden follows notorious whistleblower Edward Snowden (Joseph Gorden - Levitt) as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with his orders at the NSA and, eventually, decides to leak thousands
of classified documents to the press.
New set pics have emerged from the Oliver Stone film Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Edward Snowden, the CIA employee who leaked thousands
of classified documents to the press and is currently in hiding.