No doubt that "our democracy" is anything but
"By spurning Poitras' FOIA requests, the government leaves the impression that her detentions were a form of retaliation and harassment of a journalist whose work has focused on U.S. policy in the post-9/11 world." ®
Kafka would be proud altho he lived in equivalent surreal times.
And then you can watch the wealthy in-crowd bypass screening. I'm sure that all of this is how we want to demonstrate the American Way to the rest of the world. Bravo!