How the Real Edward Snowden Helped Write the Ending to Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’

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The Oscar-winning director of the upcoming biopic ‘Snowden’ and the NSA leaker himself participated in an eye-opening Q&A at San Diego’s Comic-Con.

Published Jul. 22 2016 4:36AM EDT

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The NSA’s worst nightmare made his San Diego Comic-Con debut by way of video chat, moments after the first public screening of Oliver Stone’s Snowden.

“The FBI actually gets a copy of this talk because we’re going through Google Hangouts, which unfortunately has a sort of built-in surveillance capability,” joked Edward...

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How the Real Edward Snowden Helped Write the Ending to Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’

The Oscar-winning director of the upcoming biopic ‘Snowden’ and the NSA leaker himself participated in an eye-opening Q&A at San Diego’s Comic-Con.

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Jen Yamato