Posted on 04/17/2017 4:49:11 PM PDT by BackRoads775
WASHINGTON (AP) — Laura Poitras' travel nightmare began more than a decade ago when the award-winning filmmaker started getting detained at airports every time she tried to set foot back in the United States.
She was stopped without explanation more than 50 times on foreign travel, and dozens more times on domestic trips, before the extra searches suddenly stopped in 2012. Only now is Poitras beginning to unravel the mystery, which goes back to a bloody day in Baghdad in 2004.
Time after time, airport authorities searched her baggage, rummaged through her electronics and quizzed her for hours about her trips
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
Just tell us the bottom line.
Hmmmm.....
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But in his sworn statement to military investigators, he said he believed Poitras had prior knowledge of the attack. He said Poitras was staying in a pro-Saddam Hussein neighborhood “and she was not in fear of her life or being kidnapped at a time when Western journalists were being abducted and executed.
"The documents show for the first time that the U.S. government investigated Poitras on suspicion she might have been involved in an ambush that led to a U.S. soldier's death in Iraq in 2004.
On Nov. 20, 2004, Poitras was in Baghdad filming "My Country, My Country." The film depicts Iraqi elections from the perspective of an Iraqi doctor, who criticized the U.S. occupation yet hoped democracy would take root in his homeland.
Members of a U.S. Army National Guard unit from Oregon reported seeing a "white female" holding a camera on a rooftop just before they were attacked. David Roustum, 22, an Army National Guardsman from West Seneca, New York, was killed. Several troops were wounded. Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn't share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it. If true, Poitras would have broken U.S. criminal law."
Not sure what to make of this.
It seems to me they had enough evidence for a warrant to review what she filmed that day. If they weren’t willing to follow through on their suspicions, why keep harassing her as she traveled?
Enough unsaid in this article to make me believe she is guilty.
Notice there is no absolute denial that she was not present when the soldiers were ambushed. She smells bad.
Thanks.
Kind of uncool to alert her by putting her on the flight harassment list, however. If she was trying to do something on the down low, this would alert her to do things like taking private flights to Nowherestan.
If she committed a crime, it should have been prosecuted by now and she should be in prison. Why the hold up?
Being a lefty reporter explains well enough her welcome in the neighborhood. She might be a “threat” but a political one, not a military one.
Why is hurry up and wait the motto of the armed forces everywhere?
“They” didn’t keep harassing her. She was on the list. Eventually, when attention was brought, she was taken off the list.
She has a pattern of making documentaries from the viewpoint of our enemies...and she was filming in an area that soldiers report a white woman was filming from a rooftop just before an ambush of those soldiers.
Thin, but both plausible and not particularly disprovable, so she wasn’t removed from the list for several years.
“Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn’t share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it.”
Nice. I hope he US military can return the favour someday.
She was never even interviewed by the government nevermind charged.
Why didn’t they roust her out right then and there? To see if she did? Since they did not, then she remains the target of an unfounded suspicion.
“If she committed a crime, it should have been prosecuted by now and she should be in prison. Why the hold up?”
The stopped the screenings in 2012.
That has nothing to do with the suspicion or accusation of crime. DO you have to keep jackbooting all over the place here? I guess that answers itself.
“That has nothing to do with the suspicion or accusation of crime. DO you have to keep jackbooting all over the place here? I guess that answers itself.”
I posted a simple fact from the article.
1. You are stalking and harassing me.
2. You are trying to hijack the thread.
Please act like an adult.
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