No Place To Blonde Book Summary

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

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.

On June 6, 2013, The Guardian published a story about the National Security Agency's (NSA) secret Internet surveillance program, PRISM (Greenwald and MacAskill 2013). The story was based on documents leaked by one of the most successful whistle-blowers in American history, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents that Snowden has released up to this time have shown the NSA to be heavily engaged in the collection of personal Internet activity, bulk collection of telephone "metadata," and other forms of surveillance that have brought U.S. intelligence practices into question.

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

No place to hide, is a 2014 non-fiction book by the former constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald. He argues in favour of U.S government accountability for the National Security Agency illegal domestic spying program that allegedly aims to defend against potential terrorism. The unreasonable level of surveillance breaches citizens and foreigners’ privacy. Greenwald

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

Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill join her to interview Mr. Snowden. Greenwald is a journalist, a lawyer and a speaker who wrote for The Guardian at the time. MacAskill is a journalist and the defense/intelligence correspondent for The Guardian. The interview involved Snowden handing an archive of classified documents to Greenwald and explaining what the documents represent for the society. This was followed by Greenwald working with MacAskill to publish a series stories in The Guardian that related to the surveillance issue.

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

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

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).

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 early 2013 a man by the name of Edward Joseph Snowden began leaking classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents to media outlets, which in turn ended up in public ears. These documents, mainly involving intelligence Snowden acquired while working as an NSA contractor, are mostly related to global surveillance programs run by the NSA. This has raised multiple ethical issues ranging from national security, information privacy and the ethics behind whistleblowing in general. The reach and impact of these leaks have gone global and have put in question the very government that protects us as well as the extent of the public’s rights on privacy. Various foreign