Snowden Pros And Cons

In 2013 a National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, Edward Snowden sparked nationwide controversy after leaking top-secret surveillance information from the NSA to several media outlets. During his IT work for the NSA Snowden noticed the immense reach of NSA's everyday surveillance, so he began copying top-secret NSA documents and built a dossier on practices that he found invasive and unethical. His findings revealed that the NSA's surveillance programs were unconstitutional and infringed on the U.S citizens’ right to privacy.
The methods used by the NSA such as; cracking online internet encryption, collecting text messages, and intercepting phone calls is unlawful and should not be used on the American people. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), signed into law by President Bush in 2008, expanded the government's authority to monitor Americans' electronic communications. Because of Snowden it has been revealed that the NSA used the law to conduct broad surveillance of Americans’ international communications and, in the process, obtain a large quantity of purely unnecessary domestic communications. Millions of Americans are …show more content…
This is a valid point, because the NSA is not participating in any illegal actions. However, what these people fail to understand that these programs are a direct violation of our fourth constitutional amendment that specifically state the rights of the people to be secure, against unreasonable searches and seizures, no warrants shall be issued without probable cause supported by oath, and the warrant must describe the place, person or things to be searched. In addition the FISA does not have grounds to override our fourth amendment right, thus the NSA programs and surveillance is