Pros And Cons Of Edward Snowden

It is often believed by the everyday public that politics, both local and national and yes even global, is better off hiding nothing from the public. ‘Achieve more by working together’, is the message proclaimed by parties the world over, parties who are on contrasting sides of the political spectrum, which try and portray the same message. In this essay I will try and give a balanced view as to how global politics may be better off with leaks with examples, but also try and show how sometimes, what the general public don’t know won’t hurt them. The old mantra comes to mind, ‘if it doesn’t affect my pocket then I don’t care’, however, would you like it if something that affected your life was being hidden from you courtesy of your own government?
Snowden was a former system administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defence Intelligence Agency. In June 2013 he came to international attention for leaking thousands of classified documents that he acquired while working for the NSA, disclosing classified information and documents to various numerous media outlets, and bringing to public attention that mass surveillance was taking place on a global scale. In short, he let the general public know they were being watched, and private information about them was being stored in vast databases.
Snowden’s leaks caused political consternation, an example of which being the political row of spying on Israel. Snowden exposed classified operations that have caused heads of state and both the American public and political realms alike to demand reform. Prime Minister Benjamen Netanyahu seemed to let it slide, although now the fact was out in the open that the US were even spying on allies, Israel of course being dubbed I the past as “Americas aircraft carrier in the middle east”.
Snowden’s leaks also caused political debate in China, where claims were made that the bulk of the USA’s 61,000 hacking operations took