to Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post. Poitras had met Gellman in 2010, when they were both fellows at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. Poitras had requested help in encrypting her computer from Karen Greenberg, the executive director of the center, who took her “by the hand” to meet

rgate scandal. Poitras, as the go-between for Snowden, immediately contacted Gellman. She already knew him from meetings they both attended at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. After telling him she was involved in a story about NSA surveillance, she suggested that they meet in New York City. For their rendezvous, Poitras

spiracy is not a rare phenomenon. Not only was a foreign conspiracy responsible monstrous 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center (as well according to the Center on Law and Security at federal indictments for terrorist attacks since 9/11 contain at least one conspiracy charge. The government's pursuit of conspiracies is by no mea

spiracy responsible for the monstrous 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center (as well as the previous attempt to blow it up in 1993) but, according to the Center on Law and Security at Fordham University, over 90% of routine federal indictments for terrorist attacks since 9/11 contain at least one conspiracy charge. The governmen