When you make a phone call, send a text message, or message someone on Facebook it is highly likely that the intended recipient isn’t the only one to read your messages or to listen to your words. Someone at a government or private agency is being paid handsomely to carefully observe your life mostly with the help of that little, smart device in your pocket.
II. Thesis
Edward Snowden – a whistleblower, traitor, hero and a patriot. This name and these associated titles may sound familiar from the news or websites similar to Reddit, but not many of you are aware how he exactly earned those titles.
III. Connect
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency. In June, 2013, …show more content…
Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow to seek asylum.
D. Snowden’s motive
BODY
I. One June 5, 2013, the British daily newspaper The Guardian reveals classified documents.
A. Reveals how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered Verizon to hand over millions of phone call records to the FBI and the NSA.
II. Facts about the global surveillance programs run by the NSA uncover.
A. Existence of surveillance programs as ‘PRISM’ and ‘MYSTIC’ are revealed which shed light on how the NSA was observing our virtual lives and collecting meta-data related to phone calls, social networking websites, text messages, and online shopping. (D. Ernst, 2014).
B. Involvement of national and European telecom companies. (R. Lezner, 2013).
III. On June 9, 2013, Snowden’s identity is revealed to the public at his request.
A. Snowden is then considered a traitor by the U.S. Government, and they revoke his passport and request for extradition. Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow to seek asylum.
IV. Washington Post quotes Snowden – “As advanced and learned the dangerous truth behind the U.S. policies that seek to develop secret, irresistible powers and concentrate them in the hands of an unaccountable few, human weakness haunted me. ” (B. Gellman,
II. Thesis
Edward Snowden – a whistleblower, traitor, hero and a patriot. This name and these associated titles may sound familiar from the news or websites similar to Reddit, but not many of you are aware how he exactly earned those titles.
III. Connect
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency. In June, 2013, …show more content…
Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow to seek asylum.
D. Snowden’s motive
BODY
I. One June 5, 2013, the British daily newspaper The Guardian reveals classified documents.
A. Reveals how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered Verizon to hand over millions of phone call records to the FBI and the NSA.
II. Facts about the global surveillance programs run by the NSA uncover.
A. Existence of surveillance programs as ‘PRISM’ and ‘MYSTIC’ are revealed which shed light on how the NSA was observing our virtual lives and collecting meta-data related to phone calls, social networking websites, text messages, and online shopping. (D. Ernst, 2014).
B. Involvement of national and European telecom companies. (R. Lezner, 2013).
III. On June 9, 2013, Snowden’s identity is revealed to the public at his request.
A. Snowden is then considered a traitor by the U.S. Government, and they revoke his passport and request for extradition. Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow to seek asylum.
IV. Washington Post quotes Snowden – “As advanced and learned the dangerous truth behind the U.S. policies that seek to develop secret, irresistible powers and concentrate them in the hands of an unaccountable few, human weakness haunted me. ” (B. Gellman,