The movie “Citizenfour” is an American documentary filmed by Laura Poitras, and it’s about the uncovering of the corrupt American system that spies on its citizens, supposedely since the attacks of September 11. With the help of the famous technician Edward Snowden, a journalist (Glenn Greenwald ) and a reporter from The Guardian (Ewen MacAskill) they go public, even if it’s a suicide mission. The film starts when she receives an odd message from an anonymous source, who was Mr. Snowden at the time. In the encrypted messages he renders her with inside information from various intelligence agencies, among them the US National Security Agency. When I first saw the movie in ICT class, I legit thought it was a joke, I even wrote down …show more content…
Could I be acquainted with a marked down target so they feel the need to watch me as well? All of these questions pop in my head as I continue to watch Snowden’s exclusive but limited interviews and read different articles with more and more information, it really is an unbelievable but undeniable reality. To discuss my thoughts on the NSA, CIA and GCHQ policies on security there is no need to read the whole unclassified manual of each agency. I already know what is written in those manuals; transparency, limited information recollection, honorable mission to conserve America and to ensure a secure surveillence to protect the God blessed nation that is the US. In other words, genuine gibberish. The IAs, specially the NSA, doesn’t live up to what they say they stand for. Instead, they suck up information from libraries, public cafes, chat browsers, organizations, phone companies etc. I’m positive that is the reason why Snowden went public with all of these revelations, not for fame or recognition, not even to get back at them, but for justice. For the right of the citizens to know their reality and take a stand on it, because there are still people on