What are your thoughts on Edward Snowden and his actions regarding the NSA mass surveillance and spying?

Question

What are your thoughts on Edward Snowden and his actions regarding the NSA mass surveillance and spying?

Answer 1

he is a hero nsa are criminals...dr

Answer 2

Our country has always done surveillance as best as they could. My dad had a high clearance for a government job he did. When he first applied for the job he had to fill out a lot of papers and answer a lot of questions. They wanted his address at all the places he had lived. That was in the fifties and when they came back to ask him why he had put down the wrong street address or none in places he had lived for a week or two back during the depression when he traveled the country looking for work, they already knew the addresses and he had forgotten the exact numbers and so on so far back. Still they questioned him about it. so it comes as no surprise to me. The only difference today is the internet makes it easier. It is hard for them to keep secrets that should be kept secret. Some things our enemies and sometimes even our friends don't need to know. I think Snowden could have possibly put Americans in danger in one way or another and I think he is guilty of treason in that sense and I think he knew that. I believe that is why he ran before he released all he did.

Answer 3

Wow, I'm kind of back and forward on this. Part of me thinks he was right for doing so because he brought up a huge controversy to the American public, and part of me doesn't like him because he betrayed the nation. Honestly, the NSA is not really involved in our lives. They DO monitor our history, phone calls, texts, etc, but it's for a good reason. They want to help catch terrorist/murders/criminals. If it wasn't for them monitoring us, literally THOUSANDS of these people would probably be still walking around today. I think that's the fact that people overlook a lot.



The government also set up laws to make sure that they can't specifically peruse a person just for no reason. So, even though they have all your records and things like that they have to prove they actually have reasonable clause for looking through it before they do.



A LOT of people do things in the dark and don't want them to come to light. We all have sexted/watched porn/stole a song or movie on the internet at least once or twice, and I guess the idea of the government having that on file is a little bit nerve racking at best.



People hit that "clear browser history" button every day and try their best to pretend what just happened didn't happen. In a way, a kind of sympathize with people who hate the NSA because I can understand how nerve racking it can be to know that people can know the "real you" at anytime.

Answer 4

He can expose what he wants about them but it was already common knowledge what do you think the patriot act was about?



This government should be exposed at every turn they are criminals.



I am open to all theories but what evidence do you have he is a CIA operative what would the motive be here?

Answer 5

i think that edward snowden doesnt exist or is a CIA operative.

Answer 6

He exposed criminal and underhanded acts by a governmental organisation acting like the Gestapo. In return he's hunted across the globe and made a homeless refugee.



Says it all, really.

Answer 7

He is moral and immoral at the same time. Its our faults that he is in the mess he is in now. We always knew they spied, but we ignored it. Thus if we hadn't had ignored it, Snowden wouldn't have done what he did.

Answer 8

His exposure of government overreached through the PRISM program was heroic. His fleeing to China and Russia was cowardly.

Answer 9

its was a complete failure because he failed to consult with Monica BlewClinski (nee Monica Lewinski). She would have resolve the problem with a Wad of Bill's

Answer 10

He could have protected himself by giving Al-Qaeda names of our agents working among them - if they weren't DEAD because Manning already did that - and that way all Democrats would idolize him as a hero.