Edward Snowden is a traitor.

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He gave helpful information to terrorists

"What Snowden is doing and, to an extent, what the newspapers are doing in helping him do what he is doing, is frankly signalling to people who mean to do us harm how to evade and avoid intelligence and surveillance and other techniques," -Prime Minister David Cameron

"He collected an apparently unknowable amount of information (unknowable to both him and the NSA) and dumped it on the doorsteps of largely foreign newspapers. As he no doubt fully understood, most of these documents contained information pertaining to how the NSA collected intelligence on legitimate foreign targets, not Americans whatsoever."

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the Intelligence Committee’s ranking member, said terrorist groups have already started changing their habits as a result of the leaks, making them that much harder to fight.

“Snowden handed terrorists a copy of our country’s playbook, and now we are paying the price, which this report confirms,” Ruppersberger said. “His actions aligned him with our enemy. We have begun to see terrorists changing their methods because of the leaks, and this report indicates that the harm to our country and its citizens will only continue to endure.”

"What we've seen the last six to eight months is an awareness by these [terrorist] groups...of our ability to monitor communications and specific instances where they've changed the ways in which they communicate to avoid being surveilled or being subject to our surveillance tactics," said NCTC Director Matthew Olsen.

CIA Director John Brennan said his spies have determined that al Qaeda terrorists "are going to school" with each classified document provided to journalists by Snowden. Brennan said they are aiding al Qaeda with "their counter-intelligence program" because all al Qaeda members have to do is "pick up the papers sometimes or do some Google searches for what has been disclosed and leaked."

Snowden has aided terrorists by showing them how the NSA collects data, allowing the harmful people to avoid being surveilled.

For example, if I tell you I do not lock my doors between 6-8 and you wanted to rob me. You would come at that time between 6-8 now that you have that information. This is the same with terrorists. If they are being told where and how the NSA collects data ,trying to catch them, they will avoid these programs and manipulate the information to the best of their advantage. And that harms to US because it makes it even more difficult to detect when an attack is going to occur.

Not only has he aided terrorists with information, but he has aided our enemies with more hate. Now that they know we were spying on them, this makes them even more angry and makes them want to harm us more as well.
Snowden was a traitor because he aided terrorists.
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He betrayed the government (particularily everyone involved with the NSA)
Snowden signed an oath, as a condition of his employment as an NSA contractor, not to disclose classified information.
Therefore, he is a traitor to the government for breaking this oath.





He harmed our relationships with Allies

“Snowden first leaked the NSA documents in June 2013. Some documents included information on American espionage efforts against enemies. Others revealed how the NSA was spying on American citizens, which raised the ire of civil rights advocates. Other documents focused on how the U.S. spied on its allies, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.”

When Snowden leaked the information, it didn’t just make our enemies hate us even more but it harmed our much needed relationships with our Allies. This leak, ruined the foundation on which we built our allies trust.
He is a traitor because the files he leaked damaged the United States important relationships with other countries.

The way Snowden leaked the information, made him a traitor in itself.

He basically took all the files and dumped them on newspapers doorsteps. If his intentions were for the government to reform the NSA activities so they protected our civil liberties more, he would have stayed at the agency longer and collected more information and carefully presented it to the people who do the changes, not the whole nation.

“making it public is worse, because then you have 190 governments that learn America’s secrets.” -John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

If Snowden leaked the information less recklessly, maybe he would not be considered as much of a traitor, but we have to look at the facts. The way he released the information was not to help the people of the US, Snowden is a traitor because of the way he leaked the data.

“When the time came for him to flee, as a coward would, he went to Hong Kong where he exposed the information to the press, if not to the communist Chinese,” Gilmore said.

“Then he went to Russia, where he shared the information with a thug – Putin.”

“I do consider him a traitor. He has taken vital secrets of the United States, undoubtedly given some to China, given some to Russia — Russia and China may have them all now for what we know,” -John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

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I AM NOT TEAM EDWARD

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