Edward Snowden's Ethical Ethics Of Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is considered to be a whistle blower because he did an unethical doing and decided to make an ethical decision by making the American people aware of the wrongdoings of our government. Snowden raised his right hand and sworn to abide by the constitution and uphold the constitution. After working with these agencies Snowden saw that it was not right and unconstitutional, so he decided to copy the files and release it to the American people. In order for him to protect himself he had to flee to a different country before he could actually release the information.

June 31, 1983 was the day that Edward Snowden was born on. Raised in North Carolina and then relocated to Maryland because his mother worked at a federal court as a chief clerk for administration and technology. Snowden would drop out of high school to study computers at a community college, while his journey through college Snowden was in the Army reserved, but was eventually discharged because of an accident. Snowden was able to land a job as a security guard at University of Maryland, which have ties with the CIA fro information-technology. After three years Snowden left the job to work for a private contractor such as Dell who is a subcontractor for the NSA in Japan.

A whistleblower is, “someone who exposes any kind of information

Snowden ethical decision opened the eyes of many. Even President Obama ordered the U.S. Attorney to review the country’s surveillance program. Snowden is willing to return to the U.S. only if he can receive a fair trial. Snowden stated, “yes there are laws on the books that say one thing, but that is perhaps why the pardon power exists for the exceptions, for the things that may seem unlawful in letters on a page but when we look at them morally, when we look at them ethically, when we look at the results, it seems these were necessary things, these were vital things” (Whistleblower