Edward Snowden was a former Contractor of the National Security Agency. The National Security Agency (NSA) monitors electronic communications of private citizens. The scope of what the NSA does is vast and includes monitoring the internet, text messages and phone calls. The NSA exists because of the Fourth Amendment. Within the law the NSA can collect data with probable cause. Snowden outed the NSA for collecting information or data without probable cause. I think that Snowden made the decision to come forward because it was the right thing to do ethically. He states that his motivation was that the public should decide if what the NSA was doing should continue or if it was wrong or inappropriate. Snowden was correct in blowing the
