The initiative has quickly encountered a massive wall in the form of a report made by the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are playing hardline cards on national security issue.
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Snowden and his supporters argue that although he stole information, the revelations have benefited the public because they led to improved privacy protection laws.
Snowden now lives in Russian Federation, where he fled after sharing with MacAskill and other journalists a vast database of documents that revealed the scope of the NSA’s surveillance efforts in the United States and overseas.
“Something that may seem quite unlikely in September, might seem just a bit more likely in December, if millions of people around the world respond to this call and join our campaign”. The billboards for the film might read, “soldier, traitor, spy, hero, hacker, patriot”, but in this film, Stone regards Snowden only as a soldier, hero and patriot. However, the United States government is very clear about their perception of Snowden. Well, not paranoia, because they really are watching him and listening to his conversations, just as they are everyone else. Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley), is as much of a motivating factor for him as his belief in a government that should serve the people with transparency and open debate.
There has been new interest in the case with the release of a film about Snowden. It is around $8.4 million!
It’s a quick, oft-used antidote for one of the pervasive online privacy threats exposed in the new film “Snowden”: a Band-Aid. In June, he revealed classified NSA documents to several journalists. These sensational disclosures grabbed the attention of people overnight and Snowden became internationally famous. He has also been accused of disclosing details of classified programs that have endangered national security in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917. The documents revealed multiple global surveillance programs run by the NSA and Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance.
The surveillance program basically allows the US government to collect any information on any of it’s citizens, anytime and anywhere.
Of course, there are still plenty of people, especially those in the US government, who would vehemently disagree with Wizner on that point.
“He should be the head of the NSA, throw out the crooks that are there and put him in because I really think he’d do a far more efficient job at protecting us, as opposed to taking offensive measures to attack other countries with cyber warfare, which is what we did during the Bush administration”. The film, “Snowden”, is directed by Oliver Stone, who recently called for a pardon.
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency worker, is back in the news. He’s been convicted of no crime, much less one that would strip him of his civil rights, ‘ leading U.S. attorney Ben Wizner told The Daily Dot. In 2014, then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey said that “the vast majority of the documents … had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities”, but “were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques, and procedures”. Edward Snowden proved that point of pride was no longer the truth.
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Stone’s film unfolds much like a political thriller, building tension as Snowden uncovers the kind of work the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA are doing and his growing both ethical unease and personal paranoia.
