Edward Snowden's Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live With Him

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Edward Snowden's Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live With Him
By Glenn Greenwald
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/10/2014 at 21:31:24

CITIZENFOUR, the new film by Intercept co-founding editor Laura Poitras, premiered this evening at the New York Film Festival, and will be in theaters around the country beginning October 24. Using all first-hand, real-time footage, it chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong while he worked with journalists, as well the aftermath of the disclosures for the NSA whistleblower himself and for countries and governments around the world.

The film provides the first-ever character study of Snowden and his courageous whistleblowing, contains significant new revelations about all of these events, and will undoubtedly be discussed for years to come. But one seemingly banal -- yet actually quite significant -- revelation from the film is worth separately highlighting: In June of this year, Snowden's long-time girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, moved to Moscow to live with him.

Vital to the U.S. government and its assorted loyalists in the commentariat is to depict whistleblowers as destined to live miserable lives. That's the key to their attempt to deter unwanted disclosure: the message that doing so will result in the full-scale destruction of one's life. That's what explains the grotesquely severe mistreatment and 35-year prison term for Chelsea Manning, as well as the repeated, gleeful predictions that Snowden will "end up like Kim Philby," the British defector to the Soviet Union who, it is claimed, died a premature death from alcoholism, solitude and all-around deprivation.

The reality is that none of that has ever applied to Edward Snowden. Particularly when compared to what he expected his life to be upon deciding to embark on the whistleblowing path -- decades of imprisonment in the harsh American penal state, if not worse -- his post-Hong Kong life has been fulfilling and rewarding. He speaks, and writes, and is interviewed, and has become an important voice in the global debate he triggered.


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http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/10/6960099/edward-snowden-laura-poitras-documentary-citizenfour-trailer

Get a first look at Edward Snowden documentary 'Citizenfour'
By Adi Robertson
on October 10, 2014 05:31 pm

While former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's documents were being covered by news outlets worldwide, journalist Laura Poitras was also working on a documentary about the story behind them — from the first anonymous emails she received from Snowden, through the meeting in Hong Kong that would launch some of the biggest news stories of the past year. Called Citizenfour, it's premiering tonight at the New York Film Festival, in advance of its wider release on October 24th. We'll have impressions from the film and a panel with Poitras soon, but for now, you can see the trailer above. We'll warn you, it's not a particularly satisfying trailer, but you can watch it nonetheless. Or you could read a longform account of the meeting, published in The New York Times last year.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Oh she is obviously going to have to be executed for treason too.

I am sure that must be some sort of capital crime.

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2. so many people are disappointed by this news

Ed didn't abandon Lindsay after all.

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3. it certainly is quiet around here, eh?

Everyone who trashed Snowden for leaving Lindsay must be too ashamed to comment now.

[MisterP]

4. not to mention that Russia's already *full* of ballerinas: she's moving *into* a saturated labor

labor pool