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Citizenfour's Escape to Freedom in Russia, by Ray McGovern
Published on Friday, October 24, 2014
by Consortium News
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/24/citizenfours-escape-freedom-russia
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Edward Snowden (third from right) receives the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award alongside UK WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison (second from right), who took Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow, and the US government whistleblowers who presented the award (left to right) Coleen Rowley (FBI), Thomas Drake (NSA), Jesselyn Raddack (Department of Justice) and Ray McGovern (CIA) on October 9, 2013 in Moscow. (Photo: Getty Images
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McGovern describes his visit with Snowden, in Moscow, and the upcoming release of the documentary, "Citizenfour".
Preparing for the flight back to the US from Moscow, McGovern reflects:
Flying home from Moscow, having had lunch there with Edward Snowden, lunch in Berlin with <WikiLeaks journalist> Sarah Harrison, and dinner with Julian Assange in that little piece of Ecuadorian territory in London, what came first to mind was Polonius’s advice to Laertes: “Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”
But then, above the din of the jet engines, came a more familiar and more insistent voice. It was that of Jane Fahey, my Irish grandmother, who for some reason seemed 33,000 feet closer than usual: “Show me your company, and I’ll tell you who you are!” she would say, often – very often. I think my grandmother would be as pleased with my “company” as I am – and as grateful.
But then, above the din of the jet engines, came a more familiar and more insistent voice. It was that of Jane Fahey, my Irish grandmother, who for some reason seemed 33,000 feet closer than usual: “Show me your company, and I’ll tell you who you are!” she would say, often – very often. I think my grandmother would be as pleased with my “company” as I am – and as grateful.
I'm eager to see "Citizenfour" but I guess I'll have to wait for it to be released on DVD. The chances of it being shown at any movie theater in the Midwest are probably slim to none.
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