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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by NegativeK on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:11AM (#9092664)
Prosecuting a journalist -- over something that has the executive branch sweating bullets -- when they're on the way to attend one of the biggest entertainment award ceremonies of the year would be like loading a revolver with a whole stick of dynamite and pretending you're just going to shoot your foot off.

"TSA imprisons Oscar winners on their way to the ceremonies" isn't something Obama wants to see in every newspaper on Monday morning.

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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by imron on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:53AM (#9092986)
> "TSA imprisons Oscar winners on their way to the ceremonies"

Haha, yeah, that would never happen -- oh, except for that one time when it almost did (nominee only, not the winner):

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/palestini...

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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by growupkids on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:43AM (#9094490)
A 90 minute delay by immigration because someone didn't bring the right paperwork is not the same thing as being imprisoned.
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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by michaelbuddy on Monday February 23, 2015 @02:21PM (#9096363)
No kidding. I've been delayed just about that same timeframe coming back into Chicago while having the right credentials with a foreign greencard holding spouse. Turns out the media didn't ask me for my story.
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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by imron on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:50PM (#9098771)
Except he did have the correct papers, including his Oscar invite, and the TSA didn't believe him.
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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by rdtsc on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:33AM (#9092743)
Agree with your comment personally.

But can see how one might have these objections:

* It would be a way to make an example out of "collaborators". Presumably in the future the next Greenwald would think twice before embarking on this kind of project.

* It would also be a way to prove to themselves and the rest of the world that "nobody really cares and public in general supports the Government".

Regarding the last issue. There is a hidden danger in these revelations and that is despite all the talk and all the press, it seems the general public is not too interested in the topic after all. This in turn serves as a signal to the executive branch and to the NSA that they need not worry much and can even increase the intensity of their programs.

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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by Fede_V on Monday February 23, 2015 @05:15AM (#9093476)
Uhh, are you aware of what the Obama administration was doing to James Risen, one of the greatest investigative journalists from the New York Times?

They have no problems going after very, very big name journalists with huge organizations behind them.

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Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by eevilspock on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:31PM (#9095575)
If you refreshed yourself of some American history you might not feel so sure. The likelihood of such a thing happening increases with each rightward shift the country takes. The war on terror is rather popular, and the constitution not so much with is protections for criminals, terrorists, gay marriage, non-christians and atheists, and all other things that make the right see red.
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