Information is illegal. In the passage The Effects of the Snowden Leaks aren’t what he Intended it says “Among those documents were memoranda and reports detailing how the agency monitors telephone and email data with a foreign connection” (Tom Gjelten) This quote proves my point that he knew about the information and that he could had copied it. He also knew that showing people all around the world was illegal because what he gave was top secret. Snowden has caused damage because nothing will be the same now that people know that they are being monitor. Edward Snowden made terrorist change their meaning of communication.
In the passage the effect of the Snowden leaks aren’t what he intended it states “An official assessment of the damage caused by news leak about government surveillance programs suggests that terrorist groups are changing their communication methods in response to the disclosure, according to officials at the National Security Agency.”(Tom Gjelten) This quote proves my point because the N.S.A knows that terrorist change their communication so the governor would not know what they are planning. Now because of Snowden the N.S.A will not know that terrorist are planning something because the changed the form of
communication. This is really important because now the N.S.A struggle to understand what terrorist are planning. Also they might not think there terrorist because they know what they are being monitor so they use a different form in communication. Edward Snowden harmed the United States because he warned people, copied classified information, and made terrorist change their meaning of communication. Those are some ways that Snowden harmed the United States.