EDWARD SNOWDEN IS HE A WORTHLESS HUMAN BEING OR AMERICAS HERO?

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT ANOTHER AVERAGE WHITE GUY? Snowden released a mass amount of classified NSA documents Official US reports believes he copied 1.7 million documents Affected not only the USA but Britain as well

WHAT IS A TRAITOR? Someone who betrays their country and hurts it’s feelings.

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL. DOESN’T THIS MEAN HE’S A TRAITOR? US Navy Admiral Rogers in February 2015 said that Snowden's disclosures has a "material impact" on the NSA's ability to "generate insights as to what terrorist groups around the world are doing.“ In April 2015 the Henery Jackson Society, a British think tank, published a report claiming that Snowden's intelligence leaks negatively impacted Britain's ability to fight terrorism and organized crime

BUT BY LAW HE’S A TRAITOR. HOW CAN HE BE A HERO? In June 2014, the NSA's recently installed director, Rogers stated that while some terrorist groups had altered their communications to avoid surveillance techniques revealed by Snowden, the damage done was not significant enough. Steve Wozniak has a man crush for Snowden when he says “Total hero to me; total hero,’ he gushes. ‘Not necessarily [for] what he exposed, but the fact that he internally came from his own heart, his own belief in the United States Constitution, what democracy and freedom was about.”

TRAITOR OR HERO?

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