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Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’ Director Laura Poitras on ICE, ‘Domestic Terrorists’ and US Surveillance

Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’ Director Laura Poitras on ICE, ‘Domestic Terrorists’ and US Surveillance

The Mishal Husain Show vor 8 Monaten

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The killing of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis
has made January a dark month for many across America. Both Alex
Pretti and Renee Good were quickly labeled “domestic terrorists"
by the Trump administration, which accused them of endangering
the lives of law enforcement. Video evidence soon appeared to
contradict government claims, but it’s still a label that
filmmaker Laura Poitras says she finds chilling.

Poitras has been producing and directing documentaries for more
than 20 years, winning both an Oscar and a Pulitzer Prize for her
2014 work “Citizenfour,” which focussed on the whistleblower
Edward Snowden and mass surveillance. She too has her own
experience of being regarded as a threat by the US government and
says she was on a terrorist watch list for years.

Her latest film, which this week was nominated for a BAFTA,
profiles renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.
“Cover-Up,” on Netflix, traces Hersh’s life from his early days
in Chicago through his scoops of the 1960s to his current
journalism on Substack.

It’s a story of media both past and present. In this conversation
with Mishal Husain, Poitras also reflects on the role of citizen
journalism in documenting government violence in places like
Minneapolis.

02:53 - “Legendary investigative journalist” Seymour Hersh

05:35 - Poitras and Hersh’s Iraq connection

06:40 - US public “failed by our legacy media”

09:06 - Cycles of impunity

09:50 - Criticism of Hersh’s journalism

11:30 - Hersh quits the film

15:00 - Hersh’s early life

16:19 - Poitras’ lens on America

17:40 - Parallels between Iraq and Venezuela

19:30 - “Regime change” in Venezuela

20:20 - Poitras under surveillance

23:00 - Leaving the US

24:40 - Edward Snowden and NSA secrets

28:15 - “I’m very happy he’s not in a US prison”

32:00 - “Cover-Up” and the present day

33:33 - “Whistleblowers face the consequences”

35:00 - “Citizen journalists”

37:00 - Mishal speaks to Poitras for a second time

38:00 - Alex Pretti and the violence in Minneapolis

39:30 - “Domestic terrorist”

40:17 - “Journalists have an obligation”

40:50 - A tipping point for ICE?

Watch this podcast here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s
notes on Bloomberg Weekend:
https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

Contact The Mishal Husain Show mishalshow@bloomberg.net

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