Edward Snowden Essay

Is Edward Snowden a whistleblower, a criminal, or both?







     Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and a criminal. First, he is a whistleblower. He was the employee in National Security Agency. N.S.A. probably has a lot of important information that are secret. The employees in N.S.A. have to protect the important secrets. But, Edward Snowden who was N.S.A. employee leaked one of the important information and the information was terrible. N.S.A. were recording U.S.A. They were recording and watching everything people were texting, calling, and using SNS. It is definitely wrong. All people have their privacy and it is kind of secret. If it is opened, it is not a secret anymore.

      Some people think he is just a whistle blower. He leaked the information but we had to know that information. I think he did good job. Recording what the other people said, watched, called, and texted is wrong. Nobody has the cause to watch what the other people are doing and try to know their privacy. Everybody's privacy has to be protected and respected. Why were they trying to watch people with recording? People were not doing anything wrong. Usually people are recording when they don't trust the other people and catch something wrong or something that people are hiding. Recording people means they don't trust the citizens even though people don't have any reason that they don't trust people.

     If Edward Snowden didn't tell the truth to people, they would keep hide the truth to people and what people doing would be watched forever. I really think he did great job. He is just a whistleblower who reported the information that people had to know. And most of people are supporting him.

     I don't want to make him a criminal but he is kind of a criminal. He leaked the information that he had to protect. He probably promised with N.S.A. to protect any information of N.S.A. Recording what people said which is leaked by Edward Snowden is one of the information. However he broke the pledge. I think he wanted people to know the truth because he knew that was wrong. He is a courageous criminal who protected other people with sacrificing himself.