Pros And Cons Of Snowden

In an interview with The Guardian (Greenwald), Snowden stated that his frustrations with the government did not come overnight. Snowden predicts the United States government's response to his actions in which he says that they will try to push the narrative that he is aiding the enemy by his actions. In this interview, it is very clear that the actions of Snowden were premeditated and a build up of frustration overtime. The leaked information by Snowden to this very day still is undetermined as to how much damage it has caused to the United States due to the multi-millions of documents passed. According to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee (Reuters), Snowden has handed over secrets that protect deployed troops as well as

In the case of Snowden, the NSA mishandled it’s database by using a third party contractor such as Booz Allen Hamilton to work on it’s internal programs. Snowden only worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for three months before flying to Honolulu, Hawaii where he operated on the NSA’s systems and collected troves of information in which he then infamously leaked. The NSA as it is right now is a major agency composed of 30,000-40,000 employees which should be able to perform maintenance on their own systems. Another fault in the Snowden case was that the Honolulu base was a new operation which meant it did not have the security measures as the other NSA bases. This is how Snowden was able to collect massive amounts of information without the NSA having red lights going off. However, the damage in these cases is irreversible. All the information leaked by Snowden and Manning is already out and collected by foreign governments. The only thing that can be left to do is make an example out of Snowden to prevent future cases. The United States and Russia need to close a deal which sends Snowden back to the United States for prosecution. This may be difficult as Snowden is most likely leaking the inner-workings of the government to Russia in exchange for