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Edward Snowden's Argumentative Analysis

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In early June of 2013, the world was shocked with the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history. The person who is responsible for the massive leak on global surveillance programs was Edward Snowden a ex-CIA and former contractor for the NSA. Through line of his action on releasing classified information was it justified and should he be consider as a whistle-bower or traitor? Some many consider Snowden as a traitor since he broke the law and harmed U.S. national security, but I see him as a hero because for showing us all the government abusive power and wrong doing, also letting the public know what it is going on behind close door of the U.S. government.

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