Gates Essay 1

August 8, 1945 was a historic moment for the United States, it also happened to be a busy as well. The United States had dropped another atomic bomb on Japan, and upon an agreement that the U.S. had came with Soviet Union they in compliance declared war on Japan also. Everyone that had been present through this ordeal believe that both attacks from the U.S and the Soviet Union would bring an end to Japan. President Truman took upon himself to bring about peace, when he signed the United Nations Charter along the secretary of state at the time James F. Bynes and made us the first nation ever to formally complete the validation of the document. This first step brought other nations in as well-China, Russia, Great Britain which led to the construction of the of the document. This was a sign of hope and optimism for everyone that was affected or witnessed this event. People believed that the U.N. would prevent any more wars and that it would serve as a setting to dissuade nations from going to war. Although the U.S. and Russia were not always the best of friends, they have both oftenly cooperated to send Nation forces on peacekeeping missions.

National Security Agency

WikiLeaks was initially created so that people could be allowed to top secret information that the government or other types of organizations or people. Many people regard the site as a whistle blower site. WikiLeaks was first introduced in 2007 and since then they have been hit with many backlash. In mid 2010, WikiLeaks published U.S. military incidents reports and confidential records that involved the war in Afghanistan. Not everyone seemed content with these leaks of the top secret document. Some reasons were that people believed that those leaks were a threat to...

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...itizens knowing let alone the world. Yet when Edward Snowden disclosed those secret documents he becomes a traitor. Where as the NSA's still hasn't taken responsibility for their role in all of this.

Some might say that Edward Snowden is a traitor and they would be entitled to their opinion. He leaked hundreds of classified documents that were meant to stay secret. In the government eyes he is someone who put his whole country at risk, who endangered millions of lives because however wrong they were their mission serves a bigger purpose. In arguing this Edward Snowden is not a traitor he could have carelessly released every document that he had gathered but he didn't. Something set him apart from those who had preceded him before in their whistle blowing mission. Before he released those top secret document he carefully selected ones that would not endanger anyone.