(Newswire.net — October 12, 2014) — “Love is love,” Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told AFP as Snowden’s longtime partner, American dancer Lindsay Mills, joined him in Moscow in July,
Mills does not live in Russia but visits frequently. The couple explores Russia and “go to theatres and cultural events together.” Kucherena said.
The two-hour documentary -due for release on October 24 – tells an intimate and sympathetic story of Snowden, and his plot to escape the NSA.
Mills is shown nearly as a supporting girlfriend preparing dinner, but no conversation was recorded between her and Snowden, nor was she interviewed.
However, the documentary shows Snowden breaking the news online to Mills from Hong Kong after she told him agents had turned up at their home in Hawaii.
“It’s a tough situation,” Snowden says, close to tears on his hotel bed after telling Mills that he “may not be coming back”.
In order to protect the love of his life, Snowden just disappeared withholding the information on course of his action. “She has no idea what I’m doing,” he says.
However, after Snowden reached safety getting political asylum in Russia, the couple reunited and start long distance relationship with occasional meetings in Moscow.
“Citizenfour” reveals Snowden at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong during interview with journalists from the Guardian newspaper in 2013 which resulted in a series of stories about the extent of phone and Internet surveillance by the British and US governments.
There are some astonishing nuggets of information, such as his assertion that at NSA he could watch drone strikes and surveillance at anytime on his desktop — — “lots of them in all these countries”.
In “Citizenfour “, Edward Snowden – a bit nervously but patiently – explains that he’ll rather risk life in jail than to have his intellectual freedom curtailed, as he decided to reveal the surveillance and how it works.
The documentary, which combines the interview with short cuts of Snowden’s behind-the-scenes life, ends with journalist-activist Glenn Greenwald going back to Moscow to meet him.