Edward Snowden's Analysis

A young man who was going to have his 30th birthday drew international attention during the summer of 2013. A former contractor of the Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Snowden works as an analyst who maintains the network security for the National Security Agency. In May, Snowden released to The Guardian and The Washington Post details of the NSA’s several classified domestic and global surveillance programs. Snowden soon fled to Hong Kong and interviewed there by The Guardian's columnist Glenn Greenwald and film maker Laura Poitras. During his stay in Hong Kong, the US government canceled his passport and the US Department of Justice unsealed three charges against him as two violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property. He then
Three days before the publication of this piece, he presents his view of the government’s massive data collection during the PBS’ news hour discussion: “I think it’s justified… it’s a reasonably supervised policy to try to control terror and balance it off with the normal privacy concerns.” (“Shields and Brooks…”) The idea that NSA’s operation is reasonable leads Brooks to argue about Snowden’s wrongness, as the disclosure impedes these programs from operation.
After Snowden first attracts worldwide attention, two journalists from The New Yorker publish articles to present their totally different opinions about him on account of their evaluation of the government’s eavesdropping. While writer and legal analyst Jeffery Toobin writes the article naming “Edward Snowden Is No Hero” that distinctively presents his attitude toward Snowden, Toobin’s colleague John Cassidy argues that Snowden is a hero and the government should let him return home. Their different judgments about Snowden are come from the two author’s distinguishable estimations of the government’s