The Intercept
March 7, 2014
What if the National Security Agency had its own advice columnist? What would the eavesdroppers ask about?
You don’t need to guess. An NSA official, writing under the pen name “Zelda,” has actually served at the agency as a Dear Abby for spies. Her “Ask Zelda!” ...
This is just a quick note to announce that I have joined First Look Media as a senior writer. I’m quite delighted and excited to be working with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and many others at First Look. For more, here’s the announcement.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A speech at an ACLU event focusing on surveillance in the digital era. Event starts at 6 pm. Ticketed event. For more info, please contact http://www.aclu-nm.org/borc2013/2013/10/
New York, NY
Talk on surveillance in the era of the NSA and Edward Snowden, and the challenges to both the first and fourth amendments. Tickets required. Contact otr@fpa.org or 212-481-8100 ext. 223 or visit https://off-the-record.org/. Event will be held at the New York Bar Association, 42 West ...
Newton, MA
Panel discussion with Tim McLaughlin and Gary Knight about our joint exhibit, “Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq,” which will be on display at Boston College from October 28-November 20. Panel starts at 6:30 in East Wing Room 120 at the law school, 885 Centre ...
New York, NY
A panel discussion on “The State of Surveillance: Legal, Cultural and Technological Perspectives,” with Clay Shirky, Eyal Press, Carrie Cordero, Faiza Patel and Peter Maass. At NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, 238 Thompson Street, C-95 Lecture Hall. ...
The following is a question-and-answer interview published on the New York Times Magazine’s blog, “The 6th Floor.” Rachel Nolan conducted the interview.
RN: Everyone wants to talk to Snowden, and, failing that, everyone wants to talk to the two people talking to Snowden. How did you ...
The New York Times Magazine
August 18, 2013
This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers. ...
In the course of reporting my profile of Laura Poitras for The New York Times Magazine, I conducted an encrypted question-and-answer interview, for which Poitras served as intermediary, with Edward J. Snowden. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.
Peter Maass: Why did you seek out Laura ...
Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and, now, Edward Snowden. Heroes or traitors? My latest story in The Nation argues that character questions of this sort serve as distractions ...
