Snowden
Could you and everyone you know and everyone they know be under the CIA’s covert surveillance? Does security, the basic duty of any government, outweigh privacy, the basic right of any citizen? This debate stole the economic, political and social spotlight mainly between 2004 and 2013 as a result of the rather brave actions of a 29 year old former senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency (among other titles), Edward Joseph Snowden.
This movie, aptly named after him, is a true life story and a proof that he did more than just start a debate. He revealed sensitive information about the CIA’s operations (that’s just a decent way of saying he snitched on the CIA) and it cost him, a lot actually – it cost him his citizenship. Apparently, he had a problem with the fact that his government had eyes literally everywhere.
I have to say, if truly you have nothing to hide then why bother? If keeping tabs on every conversation including mine and those of the terrorists that kidnapped and mutilated 300 little school girls in Nigeria would ensure or contribute to a safer environment then why not? At the end of the day the whole idea behind having a private life is to actually have a life and without that single most relevant element it’s all... Nothing. I just wish they had made it known because I take my shower sometime between 7 and 8:30 and I will pretty much love my privacy during those hours thank you very much.
Watching this movie (and I encourage you to do the same) I realized something - I need to tighten up on my online dating game. You never know, I might just meet the next Lindsay Mills. For what it’s worth, I happen to know a thing or two about photography and IT myself, but nowhere near enough to steal any kind of intelligence from any kind of agency any time soon. So no! There will not be a movie named after me on that topic. But seriously, “Central Intelligence Agency” gathering “intelligence” - who knew?
These are tough times and with the brew of international conflicts the need for assembling actual, in-depth, local and international intelligence has never been more crucial. What the CIA has is raw power and that, ordinarily, should be frightening. I think the focus should have been on how to contain this power, after it was exposed, and not to put an end to it.
Did Snowden endanger National security by doing what he did? Well, don’t ask me, I just write. Ask the executives and political heads whose job it is to protect the sovereignty of the state. What is most important, however, is the motive behind what he did, which was to let the citizens of the world in on some very juicy information and if we are to judge him based on those intentions, then by all means, he should be labelled a hero and not a man with no country
.
I completely respect and appreciate Snowden’s choice of action, at least I know now what direction to set my computer in at 7 to 8:30. But I have a question – what material gain is there in privacy as there is in security and if there is, which weighs the most in terms of national health? And to the CIA I have just one thing and one thing to say only – Hi! and See Ya!
This movie, aptly named after him, is a true life story and a proof that he did more than just start a debate. He revealed sensitive information about the CIA’s operations (that’s just a decent way of saying he snitched on the CIA) and it cost him, a lot actually – it cost him his citizenship. Apparently, he had a problem with the fact that his government had eyes literally everywhere.
I have to say, if truly you have nothing to hide then why bother? If keeping tabs on every conversation including mine and those of the terrorists that kidnapped and mutilated 300 little school girls in Nigeria would ensure or contribute to a safer environment then why not? At the end of the day the whole idea behind having a private life is to actually have a life and without that single most relevant element it’s all... Nothing. I just wish they had made it known because I take my shower sometime between 7 and 8:30 and I will pretty much love my privacy during those hours thank you very much.
Watching this movie (and I encourage you to do the same) I realized something - I need to tighten up on my online dating game. You never know, I might just meet the next Lindsay Mills. For what it’s worth, I happen to know a thing or two about photography and IT myself, but nowhere near enough to steal any kind of intelligence from any kind of agency any time soon. So no! There will not be a movie named after me on that topic. But seriously, “Central Intelligence Agency” gathering “intelligence” - who knew?
These are tough times and with the brew of international conflicts the need for assembling actual, in-depth, local and international intelligence has never been more crucial. What the CIA has is raw power and that, ordinarily, should be frightening. I think the focus should have been on how to contain this power, after it was exposed, and not to put an end to it.
Did Snowden endanger National security by doing what he did? Well, don’t ask me, I just write. Ask the executives and political heads whose job it is to protect the sovereignty of the state. What is most important, however, is the motive behind what he did, which was to let the citizens of the world in on some very juicy information and if we are to judge him based on those intentions, then by all means, he should be labelled a hero and not a man with no country
.
I completely respect and appreciate Snowden’s choice of action, at least I know now what direction to set my computer in at 7 to 8:30. But I have a question – what material gain is there in privacy as there is in security and if there is, which weighs the most in terms of national health? And to the CIA I have just one thing and one thing to say only – Hi! and See Ya!
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