Director Oliver Stone has lashed out at the US government, saying that surveillance levels under President Barack Obama are worse than those of the feared Stasi – East Germany’s secret police before the collapse of communism.
The Academy Award-winning director made the comments at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain, which he was attending to promote his new film ‘Snowden’, a biographical thriller about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s decision to leak a cache of sensitive files.
Stone was highly critical of Obama, saying that many Americans had become disillusioned with his policies, having originally thought he would be “a man of great integrity.” – READ MORE