EOC week 4:Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden Leaked information that he stole while working for the NSA, he broke the law. When He was hired to work for the NSA he agreed to secrecy. Once he agreed to work for the NSA Snowden entered into a contract. The consideration of the contract was for Snowden to keep secrets and in return he would be paid. Even though Snowden did not leak this information for money, but because he felt the Government was doing people wrong by filing everything that any citizens have made digital. It is said that Edward Snowden used his security clearance to expose the United States government. In the Government article that pertains to Espionage Section 793 talks about activities such as gathering, transmitting to an unauthorized person, or losing, information pertaining to the national defense, and to conspiracies to commit such offenses. Section D of the Espionage article relates more to what Edward Snowden did, it talks about information being released about the United States Government that would hurt them in the long run or be used to the Advantage to a foreign country. When Snowden released this information and was just granted temporary Asylum in Russia which has caused a great amount of disappointment in the United States he also sparked a lot of debates among Americans.  Plenty of people were mad about what Snowden did but when they found out what the government was doing they were not so happy with the government as well. Taking people information and filing it is an invasion of privacy. Looking into your emails and keeping them is not right. I am not the type to be so extreme about what should happen to Snowden, but I do think he should have not leaked this information only because he was in a contract with the United States Government. Russia should have Extradited Edward Snowden, but they didn’t. He should have stayed in America and let the Justice System try him. I’m not saying America has a bad justice system but Snowden did break the law.