The reporters of the Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras are the primary reporters of the Snowden’s case and they are assisted Snowden to public the surveillance programme. The intention, which they report the news and helped Snowden, is they believed people should know what government do, and avoid government over-use the power. (Greenwald, 2014) According to the Kant’s ethics theory, their action is for public benefit, they think the government should not hide the surveillance programme from the public because the public is the target of the programme, they have the right to know. For this reason, the reporters of the Guardian helped Snowden leaked the information is for the good wills. Therefore, the intention of the reporters is
