News organizations should only publish classified information that affects the rights of Americans. The problem with Snowden is that he leaked the info to Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Wikileaks. Neither of the three mentioned have the interest of the US and its security. Wikileaks has in the past has posted leaked documents without blacking out names and addresses of individuals cooperating with the US. Glenn Greenwald has previously stated his views that the US is the oppressor in the middle east because of our use of Drones. He should be asked what is the other alternative? Ground Troops? I’m sure he opposes that too.

Laura Poitras, based on the article clearly had a certain point of view about the Iraq war before going over to cover it. Secondly, you have to question her ethics when in her own words she said that she relied on the “generosity of American soldiers, who gave her the key to a trailer where she could sleep”, and then she proceeded to stay with a doctor and filmed an ambush from his rooftop. She also wanted to go to “Guantanamo, as the second part of a trilogy about American power after 9/11.” The question to raise is did she really want to cover the war or did she want to criticize American power.

Lastly, the problem with Snowden is that while he leaked information that  Americans did not know of,  he also leaked out information about the IP addresses of computers in China that our government had access to. Also, while he was in Hong Kong he gave some files to a Hong Kong reporter, what happened to those files? Before he was allowed to stay in Russia, do you really think that the Russians did not take a look at his computer before allowing him to stay. In the end Snowden did not leak info to the “media”, he leaked to to reporters who had the same agenda as he did and also who that did not like the security measures of the US. Snowden is a naive man who believes that none of this information is needed, but the real irony is that he’s currently in Russia, a country who’s reading every single word he writes or searches for on the internet.