Everything About the Edward #Snowden / ’#Citizenfour' Lawsuit Is Batshit Crazy
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The lawsuit, filed in December on behalf of the entire population of the United States, has been pretty well covered elsewhere, but some new developments, not least of which is Citizenfour’s Oscar win, have made it noteworthy again. The general premise of the suit is that the film contains classified information, so it should be removed from release and re-edited in order to preserve national security.
(…) The plaintiff, Horace Edwards, is a regular guy (as in, not a federal attorney) who identifies himself as a former naval officer. His and his attorney’s actions since filing the suit, however, have only gotten more desperate and weird as it becomes ever apparent that the lawsuit is backfiring.
Reading the court case from start to finish is like taking a master’s course in the Streisand effect and is a dictionary-perfect definition of frivolous litigation. Here is a rough timeline of events, which get increasingly odd as we move along in the proceedings.