No Place To Blonde Book Summary

Greenwald is known to be one of the journalists who first published Edward Snowden’s documents. Snowden is a now famous “whistle blower” who supplied top secret NSA documents to several journalists, one of them Glenn Greenwald.

Edward Snowden and the PRISM leak: On June 6, 2013, The Guardian broke the news that the U.S. National Security

Thirdly, Greenwald combines quantitative and qualitative data through visuals withdrawn from the leaked archives of documents. To illustrate, he provides a chart from the NSA breakdown that quantifies the number of calls and emails collected for each country. “For Poland, the chart shows more than three million telephone calls on some days, for a thirty-day total of seventy-one million” (p.99). He uses the charts from the leaked documents as evidence to support his argument on the NSA’s unreasonable levels of surveillance on foreign countries. The integration of visuals into the book is vital for readability. A reader with no previous background in statistics can easily understand the explanations to reveal important patterns. Therefore, it strengthens his argument.

Greenwald achieves his intended purpose that is to persuade and inform the reader that the actions of the NSA are beyond reasonable, and they should be held accountable. His tone is clear, concise, and confident. But, throughout the book, the reader senses a bitter tone in the writing. For example, Greenwald grants his belief on freedom of expression and journalism, he states, “Nobody need the US Constitution to guarantee press freedom so that journalists could befriend, amplify, and glorify political leaders; the guarantee was necessary so the journalists could do the opposite” (p.230). Hence, it means that Greenwald requires the reader to think and act in a way that would possibly trigger some sort of revolt against the violation a citizen’s

After reading the article, "Why Edward Snowden is a Hero," by John Cassidy, it brings a new

Described as a terrifying and eye-opening thriller, Citizenfour, a documentary directed by Laura Poitras, follows the case of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who revealed the truth behind the National Security Agency surveillance programs in the United States. Throughout the movie, we first-handedly experience the obstacles Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for The Guardian, need to overcome, in order to share Snowden’s story and help him spread the information he leaked. Along those lines, the documentary begins with several encrypted emails received by Poitras from an anonymous sender nicknamed “Citizenfour” who later turns out to be Snowden. A few months later, Poitras and Greenwald partner up and meet Snowden in Hong Kong, where

On the 20th of May 2013, Edward Snowden arrived in Hong Kong carrying four laptops that would assist him in gaining access to some of the government’s most highly classified information. Twelve days later he met with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill along with documentary creator Laura Poitras. Code by code, Snowden began to unveil to them the secrets behind the government’s security systems and showed them documents proving that the NSA (National Security Agency) had been storing gargantuan amounts of data about the day to day lives of every day citizens. With

Greenwald, G. (2015). No place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the surveillance state.

The Argument of Snowden Edward Snowden was born into a high tech world full of surveillance where cameras watch your every move, wherever you go. He grew up to live a normal life in North Carolina, despite being diagnosed with epilepsy, and decided to go into the service. Deemed unfit to serve due to his illness, he changed his focus to computers and took his skills to the NSA (National Security Agency). The NSA is a US government agency based around keeping the United States safe from threats foreign and domestic (Greenwald). While working there, he married his wife, made a living making roughly $200,000, and settled down in Hawaii working for an NSA base (Greenwald).

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (N.S.A) subcontractor turned whistle-blower is nothing short of a hero. His controversial decision to release information detailing the highly illegal ‘data mining’ practices of the N.S.A have caused shockwaves throughout the world and have raised important questions concerning how much the government actually monitors its people without their consent or knowledge. Comparable to Mark Felt in the Watergate scandals, Daniel Ellsberg with the Pentagon Papers, Edward Snowden joins the rank of infamous whistleblowers who gave up their jobs, livelihood, and forever will live under scrutiny of the public all in the service to the American people. Edward Snowden released information detailing the

“Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded,” said former NSA information technology contractor, Edward Snowden, as quoted in an article by CNN political reporter, Jeremy Diamond. Despite his low position in the National Security Agency, Snowden caught the world’s eye in 2013 when he leaked documents revealing the NSA and FISC’s plans for mass domestic surveillance in the United States. His decision to reveal classified documents sent the nation into widespread outrage. The NSA had access to not only metadata (records of activity), but also content containing personal information that Americans rightfully assumed was protected by laws such as the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act

Edward Snowden. This is a name that will be in the history books for ages. He will be branded a traitor or a whistleblower depending on where you look. Many Americans feel that Edward Snowden is a traitor who sold the United States’ secrets aiming to harm the nation. Others believe that he was simply a citizen of the United States who exercised his right to expose the government for their unconstitutional actions. It is important to not only know the two sides to the argument of friend or foe, but to also know the facts as well. My goal in this paper is to present the facts without bias and to adequately portray the two sides of the argument.

In his VICE interview, Greenwald responded to the question on privacy from the U.S. spying by saying, “Privacy is essential to who we are as human beings. Having your privacy eroded are sometimes elusive for some people and yet incredibly profound. A society that thinks or knows they are always being watched will breed conformity” (2016).

Moreover, Greenwald shapes his audience’s understanding of Snowden’s political actions by including pull quotes and subheadings, including “A matter of principle” and “‘You can't wait around for someone else to act’”, which present him as a principled individual driven by a moral obligation to expose government misconduct, rather than a desire for fame or profit. Greenwald’s rhetorical questions, “Why did he do it? Giving up his freedom and a privileged lifestyle?”, reveal his intent to portray Snowden as a saintly freedom fighter whose actions are motivated by conscientious objection, rather than monetary

The article, “Why Edward Snowden is a Hero,” penned by John Cassidy, seeks to illuminate the actions of Edward Snowden. As an international controversial figure, Snowden is responsible for leaking enormous amounts of classified information regarding the National Security Agency (N.S.A.). Cassidy contends the data Snowden disclosed to the public revealed that the government actively, knowingly, and deliberately trampled upon the liberties of the American people, by spying on them. Cassidy’s article argues: “Snowden has brought to light important information that deserved to be in the public domain, while doing no lasting harm to the national security of his country.” (Cassidy 2) Comparing the law against Snowden’s actions appears to dismay the populace; the notion that upstanding citizens do not break the law gets in the way of their ability to perceive “real” justice. Corruption, especially government corruption, must be stopped once encountered in any capacity, or our collective liberties may fall. Cassidy maintains Snowden’s hero status, as he perhaps purposefully did not provide an accounting of “algorithms that the N.S.A. uses.” (Cassidy 2) If so, this testifies to his ultimate goodness, by not providing the United States’ populace or rival countries with “groups of individuals” that the N.S.A. targets. (Cassidy 2)