When thinking about the leaking of classified information by Edward Snowden, you can almost play devil’s advocate when you think in terms to why he did it. When Edward did this, he did this illegally by releasing the information that was top secret. However, he was looking out for the people and their privacy. According to our book Snowden stated “If we want to be free, we can’t give away our privacy (Kroenke, & Boyle, 2015, p. 419)”. He believed that out rights where being violated due to the nature of the surveillance that the NSA was doing. Snowden may have believed that what he was doing was for the greater good for the citizen of the United States and that the government was in wrong. According to BBC News Snowden has been charged with
