Response to "How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets"

Reading this article made me think about what an ugly situation the U.S. government is in. After September 11, 2001, the government just seemed to lose it and go full paranoid. The examples about Laura Poitras's life and the struggles she had at airports is astonishing. Is the government so paranoid they'd feel threatened by a documentary filmmaker? It seems so. It seems to me that the government is more inclined to protect its own prosperity rather than the of the people it's supposed to protect.

The marriage between Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald is appropriate. As a government worker planning on exposing corruption, teaming up with reporters is a perfect fit. It does disturb me how the government reacted to the situation. The act of treason is revealing secrets to the enemy. By calling what these people did treason, does that make the American people the enemy of the government? A government so paranoid and corrupt that it needs to spy on the citizens they claim to protect. This is not the ideals of a democracy. This is 1984.