National Security Agency Analysis

From 2008, whistleblowers had many concerns about surveillance programs used by the government. Even in the NSA itself, the people who designed the NSA’s eavesdropping system tried to draw attention to domestic spying. (Paquette 2013, 799). However, these concerns didn’t pay attention of the media outlets as it was with Edward Snowden’s revelations in the British newspaper. Namely, The Guardian published an article about the National Security Agency (NSA) spying the nation and requiring Verizon, the biggest wireless communication service in the USA, to hand over all records of the citizens' phone calls to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the NSA. In addition, to the classified NSA files, the Washington Post and The Guardian announced
He was a former technical assistant for the CIA and the subcontractor Booz Allen in the NSA in Hawaii. During three months of the work period, Snowden noticed the government illicit activities that violate the people’s cyber security. As a result, he decided to collect all these secure information, provided that it will be public, and to defend the USA nation’s privacy rights. In other words, Snowden claimed that the NSA actions were illegal and posed a threat to the private information. First, he sent the encrypted e-mails to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, who were surprised by the information that he had. Afterward, he invited them to Hong-Kong to tell the truth about the US government and the secret documents that he had. On June 9, The Guardian published first publication with the NSA classified data and after several days, the journalist disclosed his name. The British newspaper The Guardian was the prime source of information, due to the fact that Snowden had agreed about publications of the secure materials with them. All other international media outlets published the Snowden revelations based on the information in the