Edward
Snowden
and the
Backwards
Mentality
of Modern
America
by Joel Chapman
E
dward Snowden became a household name
when he sold out his employer, the National Security
Agency (NSA) and the United States of America, after
taking off from the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade,
Maryland, with documents containing secrets of spying on the citizens of the United States and the leaders
and citizens of our allied nations.
The nation went into an uproar over a breach of
privacy by our government, and our allies overseas
went into a fit and diplomatic tensions flared.
With the Pulitzer Prize just recently being awarded
to the journalists of The Guardian newspaper in
the United Kingdom (who published his words and
told our secrets), the question rises once again: Was
the NSA in the wrong?
If asked, many people would respond with a
quick, “Yes, they did the wrong thing!”
But did they really?
One quick visit to the NSA website and you find
their mission statement, the following being the
most critical part of understanding what they do:
“This Agency enables operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad,
consistent with U.S. laws and the