| Poitras was not Snowden's first choice as the person to whom he wanted to leak thousands of N.S.A. documents. In fact, a month before contacting her, he reached out to Greenwald, who had written extensively and critically about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. Poitras and Greenwald are not facing any charges, at least not yet. They do not plan to stay away from America forever, but they have no immediate plans to return. The deepest paradox, of course, is that their effort to understand and expose government surveillance may have condemned them to a lifetime of it. "Our lives will never be the same," Poitras said. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to live someplace and feel like I have my privacy. That might be just completely gone." |
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