Edward snowden

Edward sownden is the most wanted man in the world. Edward use to work for the government, now he works for the public trying to protect are right to privcy. Edward decided to reveal top secret details of the domestic surveillance being conducted by US intelligence services. “While working at the NSA's Oahu office, Snowden began noticing government programs involving the NSA spying on American citizens via phone calls and internet use”.()” Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents while at work, building a dossier on practices that he found invasive and disturbing”. “ The documents contained vast and damning information on the NSA's domestic surveillance practices, including spying on millions of American citizens under the umbrella of programs such as PRISM”. After he collected all the documents he needed Edward asked his supervisor if he could take a leave of absence for medical resons. Once Edward was approved he took a filght to hong kong, china and relsed the secret documents to newspapers around the world. The reson why Edward risked his freemdom and gave up his nice salary and girlfriend was because he felt are rights as amercains were being trampled over by the US govement. A quote from Edward,“I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things ... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”—Edward Snowden
“The U.S. government soon responded to Snowden's disclosures legally”. “On June 14, 2013, federal prosecutors charged Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communication of classified intelligence with an unauthorized person”. “The last two charges fall under the Espionage Act”.() “Snowden remained in hiding for nearly one month, first asking Ecuador for asylum and then fleeing Hong Kong for Russia, whose government has denied the U.S. request to extradite him. While