Edward Snowden Outline

The Outline
Topic: Editorial Paper
Thesis: Edward Snowden is no hero because he is a traitor and a coward whose irresponsible actions has put the security of this nation in danger.
I. He has broken the law
A. Betrayed his country by breaking an oath sworn before taking the job as a spy.
B. Opted to run to China and disclose highly classified information which could cause damage to U.S national security.
II. N.S.A eavesdropping on innocent Americans is a necessary evil.
A. Recent Boston attacks suggests threats could come from the least suspected source and necessary precautions should be taken.
B. It’s fair to compromise a little bit of privacy for the greater good
This is done without the knowledge of Americans and might not seem right but I think this it’s better not to keep the public aware of these actions and then secretly deal with any detected threats to our nation. Even if it means innocent people with clean records are eavesdropped. We have to bear with them and let the N.S.A do everything it can to help keep this country safe. With what happened in Boston just two months ago, you just never know and cannot trust that there is no threat within the U.S. Both brothers responsible for the attacks had U.S citizenship and lived in this country for over seven years with clean records. When news broke out that the eldest brother of the two responsible for the bombings was under the radar of the FBI and some of his phone calls had been briefly monitored people were quite disappointed and asked the question, why wasn’t more done? Well I heard nobody complaining about the privacy of this bomber being invaded and why his phone calls were monitored and some even recorded? Nobody complained at all. It’s very clear we cannot have it both ways. We
From the interview he had with Glenn Greenwald a columnist from the guardian newspaper he said “I don’t want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded” and “I do not want to live in a society that does these sort of things.” Now first of all these statements are undermined by the fact that he ran to China, a well-known communist country where there is no free speech. Snowden is no hero. At a time where both the Chinese and the Americans are in conflicts over cyber theft of technological ideas, he goes to the Chinese and gives them proof of how we spy and hack their major networking companies and we Americans call him hero? He is no hero. Also in the same interview with Greenwald he pointed out that he really checked the documents and leaked those of public interests and that his main target was not to harm anyone. Initially that might have been true but his recent leaks as reported by MacAskill, Davies, Hopkins, Borger and Ball in a recent article of the Guardian reveals details of how U.S spies stationed in the U.K discreetly tapped up inter communications of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a summit in London. I don’t see how this information is of interest to the American public and why this information is not meant to harm the U.S. Is He trying to say we should trust everybody and quit spying? Why did he become a spy in the first place if he thinks it is not right? We