Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, whose “Citizenfour” film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden won an Academy Award earlier this year, filed suit against the U.S. Government on Monday, demanding records from the federal government over what she says has been six years of harassment and searches at U.S. and foreign airports.
“I’m filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law,” said Poitras in a statement. “This simply should not be tolerated in a democracy.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of Poitras by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.