December 19, 2013
Has Snowden Been Vindicated?
Debaters
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High-Level Confirmation He’s a Whistle-Blower
A federal judge and a White House panel show real concern about government overreach, not fear about imaginary damage by Edward Snowden.
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A Battle That Snowden Is Not Winning
Nothing that the panel report on the N.S.A. says vindicates Edward Snowden’s decision to violate the law and put masses of sensitive intelligence at risk.
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End His Prosecution
Without Snowden, the president wouldn't even have drafted the panel that recommended changing the surveillance programs he revealed.
Introduction
Tobias Schwarz/Reuters Edward Snowden faces espionage charges for taking records from the National Security Agency to reveal a massive web of surveillance on Americans, foreigners and even foreign leaders. While some call him a traitor who has been hunted around the globe, others call him a hero for revealing the shocking extent of snooping in the name of national security.
But with a presidential panel calling for an end to the agency’s collection of all Americans’ phone-call records, two days after a federal judge called that program, which was revealed by Snowden, “almost Orwellian” and probably unconstitutional, can Snowden now be called a whistleblower and not a scoundrel?
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