Pros And Cons Of Snowden

Snowden has been the source of numerous other classified leaks demonstrating that the NSA is collecting all imaginable electronic communications and designing entirely new invasive methods for domestic surveillance. Some examples defy the imagination when learning that the NSA literally developed programs to spy on Americans through their Xbox video games system along with other online video games such as World of Warcraft. Outrageous leaks of this kind will only continue to surface, yet most of the public wants to generalize these breaches in terms of partisan politics. Many conservative apologists during the Bush administration were vocal critics of the Obama administration’s abuses of privacy; whereas liberals who were outraged with the NSA during the Bush administration were the first to defend the program after Obama took office. For example, Bill Maher said that he didn’t have a
The threat of terrorism has been vastly exaggerated by the U.S. government for political and bureaucratic purposes. “When the agency responsible for assessing the threat is the same agency responsible for addressing that threat, obviously their incentive is to make the threat seem much worse than it is,” says Michael German. For example, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, said that he was pressured by the George W. Bush administration to raise terror alert levels to help Bush’s reelection campaign in 2004.
Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, examined every alleged terrorist case that was tried in the 10 years following 9/11. Out of 508 defendants, Aaronson determined that less than five of them involved actual terrorists posing immediate danger. That may seem unfathomable because there are constantly stories in the news about terrorism plots that were foiled by the FBI, but those reports rarely mention how these “plots” were created by the federal