This can be seen as extremely sacrificing and courageous of him. Some people claim Snowden left to go to Russia to show the lengths that our government will go through in order to obtain him, and also demonstrate on how they go about monitoring regular, everyday people. .
In recent stories it has been shown that the NSA was not only spying on regular Americans by listening to their phone calls, but also spying in on other countries. These countries included both allies and enemies. There hasn't been any evidence that what Snowden did affected the United States governments' ability to protect this great nation of ours. The United States government could not have been so crippled by the actions of one man. .
Edward Snowden can be classified as a hero in so many ways. Snowden did not undercover a conspiracy, rather he revealed the workings of an illegal government program program akin to what Daniel Ellsberg did with the Pentagon Papers. But the question is why Snowden is so demonized by politicians, the people of America, and the worst of all, the media?.
How did Snowden get his hands on this highly classified information? A reporter once told the media that Snowden said, "Snowden spent months studying every document. " He knew that by releasing this information he realized what the people needed to say and what would actually jeopardize the U.S. The leaks mainly tell the American people that they are being heavily watched by the government. They are seizing phone logs of millions without authority to do so, and the NSA tracks user data from large networking sites. .
This is very illegal in so many ways. Doing this serves no purpose but to benefit military contractors in Russia. Snowden then said, "These programs do not make us safe. They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak, think, live, and to be creative. " I completely agree to what he had to say here. When you know the government is hacking into our personal lifestyle I would feel as if everything you do is limited.
