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Is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor \u2026 or would you rather not know?
The federal Courts have already said that the American Government acted illegally, so \u2026 is it right to break the law in order to expose or attempt to forestall a crime?<\/p>\n

Are You Breaking The Law By Refusing A Police Officer\u2019s Request To Exit Your Car?<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In everyday life we see officers of the law breaking the law in order to prevent crime. They speed, drive dangerously, run red lights, fatally shoot people<\/a>, they directly and indirectly destroy lives each and every day of the year, and somehow, we are supposed to believe that in the case of Edward Snowden the same leniency should not apply.<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden is an American citizen. He comes from a family well entrenched in government employment with some reaching the status of Intelligence operatives. He spent time in the Army Reserves, becoming a Special Forces candidate in 2004 which ultimately led to his working for the CIA. It was while working at DELL that Edward Snowden was an infrastructure analyst for the NSA\u2019s information-sharing office in Hawaii. After raising his concerns about ethics and the legality of the NSA spying programs to officials, he was told to stay silent on the matter. In his words, he was \u201ctrained as a spy in the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas\u2014pretending to work in a job that I\u2019m not\u2014and even being assigned a name that was not mine.\u201d He said he\u2019d worked for the NSA undercover overseas, and for the DIA had developed sources and methods to keep information and people secure \u201cin the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world. So, when they say I\u2019m a low-level systems administrator, that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, I\u2019d say it\u2019s somewhat misleading\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill. Snowden came to international attention after stories based on the material appeared in The Guardian and The Washington Post. Further disclosures were made by other publications including Der Spiegel and The New York Times.<\/p>\n

On Snowden\u2019s 30th birthday, June 21, 2013, the United States Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property,  following which the Department of State revoked his passport. Two days later, he flew into Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo Airport, where Russian authorities noted that his U.S. passport had been cancelled, and he was restricted to the airport terminal for over one month. Russia later granted Snowden the right of asylum with an initial visa for residence for one year, and repeated extensions have permitted him to stay at least until 2020.<\/p>\n

In early 2016, he became the president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation<\/a>, a San Francisco-based organization that states its purpose is to protect journalists from hacking and government surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m willing to sacrifice [my former life] because I can\u2019t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they\u2019re secretly building,\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything you do online or through your mobile is being recorded by someone or something, period, full-stop.<\/h3>\n

ECHELON (Five Eyes): a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications<\/u><\/p>\n

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  1. The Government Communications Headquarters <\/strong>GCHQ) of the United kingdom<\/li>\n
  2. The National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States of America<\/li>\n
  3. The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada<\/li>\n
  4. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) of Australia<\/li>\n
  5. The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n