Oliver Stone on "Snowden" 

We are lucky to have Oliver Stone around..

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals" - Edward Snowden

It takes integrity to understand integrity, thank you Oliver Stone and Ed Snowden.

Snowden defines heroism.. thank you Oliver Stone!

One of the most revealing and interesting interview/commentary on the topic of whistleblowing that I have seen or heard! I haven’t seen the movie but for what it’s worth, in my opinion, Snowden is absolutely a hero❗️

One of a handful of the best Film directors ever! His contributions, to film unlike, any others ever! A very good American human being and, a great Artist

Thank you 🙏 again Oliver Stone Thank you 🙏 Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics

25:56 A room full of Snowden's would not be a threat to us, just to the intelligence community & their secrecy.

When I watched documentary - Edward Snowden - terminal F I could not stop crying; and never felt so proud to be a Latin America the way I do now. I feel for Snowden and the way he longs for his country. I have been working in Latin America for 8 years without going back to North America and I miss it like crazy.

Snowden is a hero who deserves the "Profiles in Courage Award" along with many other courageous investigative journalists who care about this country and are true patriots.

I have much respect for people like Snowman who are trying to open our eyes for what is going on in US and in this world ( risking his own life ) and fighting for the truth . They should be really proud of him .

When you interview Oliver Stone, but absolutely love the sound of.your own voice.

Audio is terrible. But Stone is an amazing story teller and nice person.

MR. STONE: YOU ARE ONE OF THE BEST FILMMAKERS....MAKE SOME MORE.....SNOWDEN IS A HERO.

Very good interview! Thanks Oliver for making the movie. Thank you Ed for your bravery and commitment to the USA people. In my eyes you are a hero! I’m so sorry that you can not come back to your country.

The Snowden effect is that, now, when a consciencious person reveals themselves the machine immediately begins to defund and marginalize them; squeezing them out of positions of actionable knowledge. They are castrated before they can propagate reformative change.

I've seen Citizen Four, read Greenwald's book, and Stones movie and learned and enjoyed them all.

Boy! Did we need Whistleblowers. Watching things like this in retrospect brings us so much irony..... Thanx for posting.

Yes , absolutely we need more whistle blowers to expose the activities of our government that undermine our freedoms and democratic principles ! And yes , Snowdon is a hero to be welcomed home and subsequently elected as a congressman , senator and then to president ! We need leaders of high integrity , honesty ,intelligence and to an enlightened world view to find solutions to the vexing problems we face as a species and Snowdon I believe would be integral to those principles!

Oliver stone: brilliant, the moderator interrupts.

If one really knew Stone that student wouldn't have asked the question. Stone is a very brilliant and balanced man at all times.

It's important directors like Oliver Stone are around to cast a critical eye on established Gov't story lines and to lend the proper "interpretative" treatment to significant global events that shape our present and future. Of course, the truth is always closer to the intersection of two or more opposing points of view, something only the most thorough and committed films makers aim for... and Oliver Stone has followed that prescription perfectly with his recounting of some of the most tragic and defining historical events in living memory. A master story teller of events that in all likelihood will never be fully uncovered or detailed.

Stone deserves Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Who can nominate him? It has to be an institution.

Very interesting subject, as always! Mr Stone!

Secrecy is definitely a huge danger to all of us. We are as sick as our secrets is very very true. What is done in the dark will eventually come to light.

Oliver Stone is a Great Man ! !

Thank you too all the great people that work really hard at keeping our world safe. Don’t forget that people.

Snowden wouldn't have needed to sacrifice his way of life and become a whistle blower if the institution he worked for followed the law, also believed in their oath to defend/protect our constitution & one of its heads didn't lie to congress. If all our institutions did follow our laws, defend & protect our constitution, there would be less to blow a whistle on. There is nothing wrong w/whistle blowers, they're exposing wrongs. There should be nothing wrong w/exposing wrongs. If lone or institutional law/constitution violators new whistle blowers were protected and honored, they would be much less tempted to violate our laws & constitution & try to work w/in them or submit a request to change the law via proper channels, presenting their argument as to why this change is needed, fast track it if time sensitive. In a way, a whistle blower is a sleeper agent for defending our laws & constitution, the more the better.

Yes, terrible audio but stay with it. SO interesting, and important.

The interviewers competition with Mr. Stone for attention seriously affects the flow of information.

*''Culture eats everything for breakfast.''* What a profound statement . . .

Oliver is one of the more interesting intellects and keeper of the Good in the USA !

How long has Suskind the interrupter been in the C.I.A. ?

A must watch for truth, is "The Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone. The best documentary I have ever seen, and should be the foundation for education of TRUE history!

Mr Snowden is an idealist. To perform an heroic act, I think idealism is often an essential ingredient of character. Many young people who are raised in military families are this sort. Other whistle-blowers have such family backgrounds. I doubt that anyone with a good background in American history would be idealistic. It is particularly a mistake of youth. His act of self-sacrifice was not honored by the American people. Our people are poorly educated and richly propagandized by corporate media. I think of the three, Assange, Manning, and Snowden who have challenged the imperial US state, Snowden has fared the best - living now in Russia with his wife in good circumstances. Julian Assange, a great hero who has not committed any criminal acts, suffers the most. Australia's governments have behaved disgracefully towards their honorable citizen and showed themselves to be cowardly in their subservience to US governments as has Sweden and the UK.

I find noteworthy how many very intelligent people are raised believing the American mythology. A large fraction of the miseducated come from upper middle-class homes, raised by parents who themselves have had the benefits of US education. Ignorance of what was done as the American government extended its reach from the colonies that declared independence from Britain to the mid-Pacific and beyond is broad and for generations deep. Its breadth certainly included the poor and the more recent arrivals to the American scene. Only within a small fraction of the working class had the insights of 19th century European intellectuals opened their eyes to American class warfare and imperialism by the capitalist ruling class. Thus it is that we find that so many among those who became whistle-blowers were idealists, volunteers for Vietnam or members of the CIA and NSA, disillusioned but earnest patriots, rebels with a cause. They were truly victims of their upbringing and education.

I wish I could hear them.

In Nuremberg, where Nazis were criminally prosecuted for war crimes, US prosecutors insisted that using " I acted according to prevailing laws, and following my orders" line of defense by the accused, be disallowed! Get my drift?

1- Oliver Stone 2- Thom Hartmann 3- Economist : Richard Wolff 4- Noam Chomsky 5- Henry Wallace (1940s) .. are honest truth-telling souls

So much of what Oliver says is desperately TRUE. They aren't listening, are incapable of comprehending and even the moderator, all miss the exact nature of the loss of their freedoms.

Good video :) I have seen it several days ago and I enjoyed it. By the way, yesterday I saw that the IOP was doing a live session about the media and the elections, but I couldn't follow it. Are you going to upload it? Please respond :)

very grateful for Untold History co authored with Peter Kuznick, and for Stone's other smelling salts, I mean movies+ commentaries.

please tell me the sound recorder of this video is fired

WHy did the movie scenes got cut out ?

This gets on my nerves every time the host interrupt Stone. It feels like most of the time the host is talking, not Stone himself

Oliver Stone should try to find and interview HARMON WILFRED. He calls himself a 'refugee' and has been for 20 years. His story is simply mind boggling!

Not one person in that building with a baseball cap for this amazing man...I would walk out of that building and buy this man the first cap I could find. It's OLIVER STONE for crying out loud.

I wish the interviewer would let Oliver Stone finish his thoughts. The interviewer is too full of his own "insights" and cuts off the more interesting thoughts before Oliver can complete them.

i hope there will be a room full of snowdens.

I will subscribe and "like" your videos if your tech and production people get their acts together.

Check the sound!!

Brilliant man 🙏❤

Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment.

I'm on a Oliver Stone interview marathon soaking it in like a person ought to when a wise elder speaks on serious matters. Not to imply he's that old, really.

What? No comments? June 14,2022. 'Snowden' was a good movie. Edward Snowden was, is a good person, and of quite the altruistic variety, too. I think in many people's hearts, they'd love to be a "Snowden" who would commit, to such a task as he did[as Steven Drake, William Binney, and others, also] and not for himself, not at all, and I suspect, his decision was agonising over just what the resulting damage to him personally, that would happen.

Too bad the audio is so awful going from inaudible to unbearably loud... Had to turn the CC on 🙄

at the 39 minute took over and answer the public questions ???? We want to hear Oliver !!!

People will remain loyal as long as they feel that their superiors are loyal to the same ideal as they are.

Nice video. It would be even better if we could hear what these two men are saying.

“ There were good Germans...” apt description.

Very interesting discussion. It seems to boil down to if the constitution is the supreme law of the land or the NSA and CIA are exempt from it. Whistleblowers usually argue for separation of powers thru following the constitution and that power corrupts.

The recording was impossible to hear.

I'm representing myself now. I am solid. But I love collaborating with others on the same level. I'm not above asking for help.

Oliver Stone is always the smartest person in the room. Definitely much smarter than this Pulitzer Prize winner.

Freshmen students running the audio...hard on the ears through ear buds. Could not stay with it to the end.

"The fear would be a president which would create a room full of Snowden's" what? Oliver didn't say that the interviewer inserted that himself, why is he saying Oliver said that. Is he confused or is he trying to control the conversation? Oliver said we desperately need whistle blowers.

It’s odd how Trump never mentions Snowden.

And just look where we are in America today......

Unfortunately the audio problem seems to come from the source the guys doing the audio in the auditorium which is really disappointing because, it’s Harvard FFS.

this interviewer loves the sound of his own voice.

I knew even as a kid the government was always listening,watching. My life's not very exciting so I've never really cared. I respect Mr Stone and Snowden,but anyone surprised by what he revealed is niave.

Ron Susskind is the main event. Oliver Stone is his supporting act/comical side-kick.🇦🇺

Oliver is always interesting but this Ron guy is more interested in chiming in with goofy remarks & new questions while the guy is in the middle of sentences. Ron needed to be in on it more than just being an interviewer.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters! If you don't have integrity nothing else matters!

Terrible audio placements with the mics

Please watch Oliver Stone's "Ukraine On Fire" (2016) Very eye-openng considering the events of today...

Good to know that there are still deep thinkers amongst us in this asylum of a modern world. If only they had influence with the ruling class.

* I would like it if Oliver Stone could speak without continual interruption by Harvard Mouth.

It's distasteful to me how Stone talks about adding "Drama" to this movie. He shares about being scared that the movie would not sell because of this. So he adds a sex scene between Lindsay and Ed. I, as a woman, could have done without it. I believe this story has captured the world. I'm sure millions are interested in Ed's story and how he has been treated by the US. Personally, I am very interested in this story as I feel for Ed as well as Julian Assange. It shows the lack of integrity and honesty that is missing in government and how journalists are treated for writing about things they feel are important . That is what is important in this movie. I am not interested in sex, car chases or shootouts.

Was excited about this one, but...couldn't watch long. It's Harvard for God's sake and you can't dim a light or get sufficient mics on the speakers. But the background noise was loud and clear. I thought you Harvard people were supposed to be smart!

Would sooo much Love to meet Oliver one day. Wow deep end of the world scene arios .....Coming to a theatre near you. KEEP THE INFO COMING OLIVER AND CO. I'm sure you've got a lot of info to do some Boom Booms

Could have positioned the microphones better .

One of the most essential teachings of philosophy: `Epistemology vs Ontology`. The world becomes the stories we tell each other. Yet ultimately, ontology blows the whistle once we go seriously astray...

Nixon is his finest work Much underrated

If we give up so easily the whole principles why this country was founded and DEGRADE into a totalitarian power, just because a bunch of terrorists blew up 2 towers then we do not deserve to be free. SNOWDEN - Respect, OLIVER STONE - Respect, PROFESOR SUSKIND - Respect.

He was 69 here. Looks great and is sharp as a tac.

I strongly agree with you, Oliver, Edward would be excellent for head of NSA. 16:25

Fast forward to 2021. Last Americans leave Kabul (almost). How did the Intelligence community not miss how quickly Afghanistan would fall? Time for another movie.

Oliver for president

Love this, but dam those chairs seem soo uncomfortable, the light was blinding the gest. Anyway I'm distracted, but enjoying this.

So what consequences did the people whose actions Snowden exposed face.

I watched with interest the discussion of the movie and its content. What I come away with is this. For all the good people in government who want our constitution to prevail there are a mountain of people who don’t care about whats right or whats wrong. It’s like using a hammer to chip away at Mt. Everest to remove it. Sadly in the end the mountain will remain till the of of time or in another term till our country will self destruct, from within.

Yeah got say it's rough, bad mic placement.

why bother if i can't hear you.

The Oath taken in the military and Government service is the same. In that the U.S. Constitution is what you swear to defend and uphold.

The dramatic variations in the audio level make this video unwatchable!

whats with the sound???-ffs!!!!!

"Carefully crafted". We know what that means

Terrible sound quality. Pity, an interesting discussion.

The interviewer is talking too much. I didn't click to watch or listen to him talk on and on.