Opgavebeskrivelse
The texts in section A focus on government surveillance and whistleblowing.
Write a paper (700-1000 words) in which you answer the following questions. Answer the questions separately.
1. Give an outline of the different views on whistleblowing presented in the texts.
2. How does Jeffrey Toobin argue for his views in text 2? Illustrate your answer with examples from the text.
3. Taking your starting point in text 3, discuss whether Edward Snowden has done the public a favour.
Texts:
1. Teresa Welsh, “The NSA Leaker: Traitor or Hero?”
2. Jeffrey Toobin, “Edward Snowden Is No Hero”
3. Eugene Robinson, “In NSA leaks, Edward Snowden performed a service”
Indledning
In the texts, we get to hear about different politicians and authors opinion of the surveillance by the government and the whistleblowing by Edward Snowden.
The first text, “The NSA Leaker: Traitor or Hero?”, is an article made by Teresa Welsh, published in US News & World Report, June 11, 2013.
The article is an unbiased statement where different politicians show us their attitude towards the act by Edward Snowden. Both democrat Dianne Feinstein and Republican John Boehner agree with each other, and Boehner says that Edward Snowden is a traitor, and that he has put the Americans at risk by leaking classified documents.
Ron Paul, on the other hand, says that the government should pay attention to the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees the citizens’ right to privacy and freedom.
He wants the government to be more transparent. In addition, he says that we should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and that they have done a great service by exposing the truth about the surveillance by the government.
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Uddrag
Jeffrey Toobin argues against Edward Snowden’s acts. He claims that Snowden is a grandiose narcissist and that he should be in jail.
He wants to prove his assertion by saying that Snowden decided something he did not have the right to do: “And what a decision to leak the documents? Doing so was, as he more or less acknowledges, a crime.
Any government employee or contractor is warned repeatedly that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information is a crime.” (p. 4 vv. 45-51).
Toobin states that it was a crime to disclose classified information, and that it is not Snowden’s decision to make, whether people ought to know about the telephone calls as well as e-mails by leaking them.
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