Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
&gt;a book she’s publishing to accompany the exhibit includes her journal from the height of that surveillance, recording her first-person experience of becoming a spying subject, along with her inner monologue as she first corresponded with the secret NSA leaker she then knew only as “Citizenfour.”<p>That line really highlighted the fallacy that &quot;mass surveillance is effective&quot; for me.<p>They were actively spying on her concurrently while she was &quot;the subject of a grand jury investigation&quot; and still were unable to deduce that she was <i>actively conspiring with Edward Snowden</i> which would ultimately decimate their reputation worldwide.