The film “Citizenfour” by Laura Poitras, depicts NSA spying around the world, and the whistleblowers or reporters that voice the words of the people. Edward Snowden was once known as a infrastructure analyst for NSA in Hawaii. His job mainly was to design programs to help the U.S government spy more closely on individuals through email, call logs, GPS tracking locations, etc. Laura who is a maker of documentaries was the first person to learn of these files, and was in secret contact with Snowden for a period of time until they met in Hong Kong to film twelve-minute video in which Snowden introduced himself to the world. After 9/11, the government started spying on everybody in the United States. A program launched called Stellar Wind collected metadata or data mining various telecommunication devices such as Internet activity, telephone conversations, and email.

Prior to 2013 nobody knew that the NSA was using these programs to spy on people until whistleblowers of the NSA stood up such as William Binney and Edward Snowden. After being contacted by Laura, Glenn Greenwald commenced an interview with Edward on the entire story. In result, the government issued his arrest on accounts of espionage or treason on the country. However, with that the reporters were able to fulfill their niche of providing people with evidence they need to be more self-aware. In this country we are being told lies day after day. For example, during a Congressional hearing in 2012, (NSA Director) Keith Alexander denied all allegations of spying, and that it must be court ordered. It only takes one person to make a difference, and I am glad we have righteous whistleblowers or reporters that get the news to the people no matter what.