{"id":12195,"date":"2020-08-03T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=12195"},"modified":"2020-08-18T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:16:42","slug":"edward-snowden-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/edward-snowden-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Reveals Mass Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is Edward Snowden the whistleblower? What did Snowden share? What resulted from the Snowden whistleblowing event?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward Snowden is a whistleblower who revealed the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stellar-wind-edward-snowden-surveillance\/\">STELLARWIND<\/a>, the US government\u2019s mass surveillance program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Edward Snowden, whistleblower and former government employee with a high security clearance.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Starts as a CIA Contractor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he became Edward Snowden, whistleblower, Ed was a technologist. Ed\u2019s first job as a technologist was for a company called COMSO that contracted services to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-cia-operations-technology-langley\/\">the CIA<\/a>. (Intelligence agencies rely so heavily on contracting that it\u2019s easier to work for them as a contractor than as an employee.) Ed spent the next few years working at a variety of positions for the CIA and NSA in the US, Geneva, and Tokyo. <strong>Because Ed worked with computer systems, he had top secret security clearance and access to more documents than most individuals would<\/strong>, even those higher up in the agency.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whistleblowing Took Time to Prepare<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ed was in Tokyo, three important things happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ed was asked to speak about China\u2019s surveillance of its citizens at a conference. As Ed researched China, he learned that US intelligence knew a lot about mass surveillance, so much that he suspected they\u2019d tried it.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Ed built a system, code-named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/epic-shelter-snowden\/\">EPICSHELTER<\/a>, to help the NSA store and back up data.<\/li><li>The unclassified report on the President\u2019s Surveillance Program (PSP) was released to the public. The PSP, created in response to 9\/11, had allowed the NSA to wiretap without a warrant and had allegedly expired in 2007. Ed thought the report had holes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed eventually found the classified version of the PSP report. This version revealed the US had been conducting mass surveillance on its citizens past the expiry of the PSP. It had details about the program, STELLARWIND, and explained how the NSA had gotten around legislation and the Constitution. A secret court had given the NSA a blanket warrant to collect everyone\u2019s data, which was questionable because warrants are by nature meant to be specific.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because most of the Internet is based in the US or owned by American companies, <strong>STELLARWIND affected nearly everyone in the world.<\/strong> He didn&#8217;t immediately act on this major news. For Edward Snowden, whistleblowing had to be carefully considered.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snowden Builds the <strong>Heartbeat Program <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the hopes of better managing his epilepsy, Ed took a new job with the NSA in Hawaii, which his doctors had recommended for its relaxed lifestyle. While there, he decided to learn more about the mass surveillance program. He knew he wouldn\u2019t be able to decide what to do about it until he understood it fully.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed created a program called Heartbeat. Heartbeat searched the intelligence agencies \u201creadboards\u201d (news blogs) and pulled documents. It then created a feed tailored to an agent\u2019s office, clearance, and projects. <strong>Ed had access to everyone\u2019s documents and used Heartbeat to learn more about the mass surveillance program without arousing suspicion.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Decision<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After reviewing the Constitution in 2012, Ed decided he had to act. STELLARWIND violated the Fourth Amendment. He decided to get in touch with journalists and share the top secret documents that proved the existence of the US\u2019s mass surveillance program.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Edward Snowden: Works From Hong Kong<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed met with journalists in Hong Kong in spring 2013 and the mass surveillance program was revealed to the public. Ed decided to reveal his own identity as the whistleblower so he could do so on his own terms. (If the government revealed him first, they\u2019d try to discredit him and shift the focus from their illegal activities to Ed\u2019s.) Ed\u2019s family and girlfriend back in the US were harassed by the government\u2014his girlfriend went through long interrogations and was followed by the FBI 24\/7.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing Consequences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The US government charged Edward Snowden, whistleblower under the Espionage Act for divulging top secret documents and called for his extradition. The government of Hong Kong wouldn\u2019t protect him and he tried to get to Ecuador with the help of WikiLeaks, an organization that publishes leaks and classified information. 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