Posted on 07/14/2015 5:07:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Filmmaker Laura Poitras, whose documentary about fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden won an Oscar, is suing the U.S. government to find out why she was repeatedly detained at immigration checkpoints.
Poitras is seeking the release of six years of records that document how she was searched, questioned and sometimes held for hours at U.S. and foreign airports on more than 50 occasions between 2006 and 2012.
“I’m filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law,” she said in a statement issued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit watchdog group that is representing her.
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Good luck with that.
They only stop SOME people at the border. Some are waved through.
James O’Keefe a conservative has been harassed at the border for his ideology.
http://www.projectveritas.com/
Why in the world is she surprised, seriously. This administration has nothing but a long list of abuses by every agency.
She is probably upset because she voted democrat.
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