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Snowden's High-Risk Whistleblowing Act
- Edward Snowden risked everything to leak NSA's mass surveillance programs to the public.
- He carefully smuggled classified documents on an old computer from his secure government office in Hawaii.
Poitras Teams with Reporter Gellman
- Filmmaker Laura Poitras received an encrypted tip about NSA surveillance from an intelligence insider.
- She teamed up with journalist Barton Gellman to verify the story and began reviewing the massive leaked documents.
Greenwald Accepts Dangerous Assignment
- Glenn Greenwald was invited by Laura Poitras to Hong Kong to meet a whistleblower with top-secret NSA documents.
- Despite fears of danger and mistrust, Greenwald accepted due to the story's potentially huge impact.