Explore Bamford's Argument In Keeping America Safe?
Is America Safe?
America is known as the land of the free. We go to bed at night thinking we are completely safe but is that 100% true? The NSA is short for the National Security Agency and is responsible for global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. Bamford effectively appeals to reason, authority, and emotion to aid his argument that the NSA has been corrupt in keeping us safe by leaking confidential information with an Israeli military organization. Bamford appeals to authority throughout his whole article by explaining his three day experience with a NSA agent. However, he fails to mention that all of the information that he is getting from the agent might not be the complete truth. He states his authority in the first two sentences of his article by stating that “[he] had the rare opportunity to hang out three days with Edward J. Snoden. It gave [him] a chance to get a deeper understanding of who he is and why, as a National Security Agency contractor, […] took the momentous step of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents” (Bamford), which confirms his authority by letting the …show more content…
However, he only appeals to emotion twice throughout his article. First, he explains how “Mr. Snoden told [him] that the document reminded him of the F.B.I.’s overreach during the days of J. Edgar Hoover, when the bureau abused its powers to monitor and harass political activists” (Bamford), which suggests the government has been corrupt in the past. Bamford then appeals to emotion by explaining that what the NSA is doing “[is] much like how the F.B.I. tried to use Martin Luther King’s infidelity to talk him into killing himself”(Bamford 1), which should make any American think twice about who we put in charge to keep us
America is known as the land of the free. We go to bed at night thinking we are completely safe but is that 100% true? The NSA is short for the National Security Agency and is responsible for global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. Bamford effectively appeals to reason, authority, and emotion to aid his argument that the NSA has been corrupt in keeping us safe by leaking confidential information with an Israeli military organization. Bamford appeals to authority throughout his whole article by explaining his three day experience with a NSA agent. However, he fails to mention that all of the information that he is getting from the agent might not be the complete truth. He states his authority in the first two sentences of his article by stating that “[he] had the rare opportunity to hang out three days with Edward J. Snoden. It gave [him] a chance to get a deeper understanding of who he is and why, as a National Security Agency contractor, […] took the momentous step of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents” (Bamford), which confirms his authority by letting the …show more content…
However, he only appeals to emotion twice throughout his article. First, he explains how “Mr. Snoden told [him] that the document reminded him of the F.B.I.’s overreach during the days of J. Edgar Hoover, when the bureau abused its powers to monitor and harass political activists” (Bamford), which suggests the government has been corrupt in the past. Bamford then appeals to emotion by explaining that what the NSA is doing “[is] much like how the F.B.I. tried to use Martin Luther King’s infidelity to talk him into killing himself”(Bamford 1), which should make any American think twice about who we put in charge to keep us