{"id":18047,"date":"2015-07-15T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18047"},"modified":"2015-07-15T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T21:25:39","slug":"vox-filmmaker-laura-poitras-has-been-detained-at-airports-50-times-now-shes-suing-to-find-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18047","title":{"rendered":"Vox: Filmmaker Laura Poitras has been detained [at airports] 50 times. Now she&#8217;s suing to find out why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vox: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/15\/8971267\/laura-poitras-foia-lawsuit\">Filmmaker Laura Poitras has been detained 50 times. Now she&#8217;s suing to find out why<\/a> by Timothy B. Lee:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laura Poitras is one of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers of our age. Her work has earned her a MacArthur Foundation &#8220;genius grant,&#8221; a Pulitzer Prize, and an Academy Award. In 2013, she helped National Security Agency whistleblower Ed Snowden release classified documents to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>And between 2006 and 2012, Poitras, an American citizen, was detained and questioned at airports more than 50 times. The US government has refused to explain why. So now she&#8217;s suing the government to release documents related to these detentions.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Poitras&#8217;s detentions were much more intrusive than the &#8220;enhanced&#8221; pat-downs ordinary travelers endure at airports. On one occasion, Poitras says that her laptop, video camera, and cellphone were seized for 41 days. She would be taken to off-site locations and questioned for more than an hour. On some trips, she would be detained once before boarding a plane and then a second time upon her arrival. She says she was detained on every international trip she took between July 2006 and April 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox: Filmmaker Laura Poitras has been detained 50 times. Now she&#8217;s suing to find out why by Timothy B. Lee:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airport-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18048,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}